ah... maybe he figured we all would know? Thank you for googling that for me :) I was thinking that some people might consider something as mild as injection site reaction to be "damage."
But yeah Guillan-Barre is a possible side effect of other vaccines too isn't it? I agree that the risk-benefit is strongly in favor of vaccination. I proactively suggested to my daughter that she enroll in one of the late-stage trials and she essentially said hell yeah. Avoiding a common risk with almost no downside? Smart girl, I say. I'd get it too if I was eligible. On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:44 AM, PT <[email protected]> wrote: > > She started exhibiting the symptoms of Guillain-Barré Syndrome around > the time she was vaccinated and continues to struggle with it. The > family claims the vaccine did it, you know, because they happened at the > same time. The family has decided not to treat her with medication and > is going the natural route, which makes me wonder if there was some > initial distrust of medicines that contributed to the blaming of the > vaccination. > > It is impossible to prove that the vaccine had anything to do with > Guillain-Barré Syndrome. It occurs in 1-2/100,000 people in their teens > for no apparent reason. It is believed that surgery, respiratory > infections and, yes, even vaccines can trigger it. Still, the cause is > not known and neither is how it is triggered. It is interesting to note > that Ms. Tunley started the vaccine when seeing a doctor for a followup > for treatment of a respiratory illness. > > The CDC pretty much calls BS on the whole thing anyway: > > 35 million doses have been distributed. > 18,700 adverse events have been reported. > 1,500 of those have been considered serious (requiring a hospital visit). > 68 deaths have been reported. > 32 have been confirmed. > Some of these were caused by unrelated problems (blood clots in women > smokers on birth control, etc.) > > Those are some pretty good odds, if you ask me .. literally less than > one in a million chance of death. Odds go higher than that simply by > walking out the front door. They look like the odds of just about any > vaccine resulting in bad things happening ... just .004% > > Most colleges require that one's MMRV and Hep. vaccines be up to date. > No one is bitching about that requirement even though those vaccines > have serious side effects in rare cases. > > Mr. Tunley is looking for something/someone to blame. Many others don't > even have a clue what they are afraid of. The rest are hung up on the > "OMG teenage sex" connection that conservatives like to pretend doesn't > happen. > > On 9/24/2011 11:25 PM, Dana wrote: >> >> I note he does not say what happened to his daughter.... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343016 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
