<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>What is all this about? Is there non-anecdotal evidence to support the anti-vaccine stuff?</div><div><br></div><div>It took humanity thousands of years to move from superstition and other pre-rational gyrations to evidence-based medicine.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/360/19/1981">http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/360/19/1981</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Vaccine Refusal, Mandatory Immunization, and the Risks of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases</b></div><div>New England Journal of Medicine, May 7, 2009</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; ">Vaccines are among the most effective prevention tools available<sup> </sup>to clinicians. However, the success of an immunization program<sup> </sup>depends on high rates of acceptance and coverage. There is evidence<sup> </sup>of an increase in vaccine refusal in the United States and of<sup> </sup>geographic clustering of refusals that results in outbreaks.<sup> </sup>Children with exemptions from school immunization requirements<sup> </sup>(a measure of vaccine refusal) are at increased risk for measles<sup> </sup>and pertussis and can infect others who are too young to be<sup> </sup>vaccinated, cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons, or were<sup> </sup>vaccinated but did not have a sufficient immunologic response...</span></div><br><div><div>On Aug 8, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Ragen Gillam wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place" downloadurl="http://www.5iantlavalamp.com/"><div class="Section1"><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; "><br></span></font></b><b><font size="5" color="teal" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: teal; font-weight: bold; ">Do you or a loved one suffer from Cancer?<br></span></font></b><font color="teal" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: teal; "><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Auto-Immune Disease?<br>Non-Traumatic Seizures?<br>ADHD OR ASD? (Autistic Spectral Disorder)<br>Genetic Damage?<br></span></b></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><br><i><u><span style="font-style: italic; ">All of the above are “VIDS</span></u></i>” – Vaccine-Induced Diseases – </span></font></div></blockquote></div></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></div></blockquote></div></body></html>