same rational with the anti-vaccine fanatics. Here's a good discussion of the issue. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/vaccine-schedules-and-infant-mortality-a-false-relationship-promoted-by-the-anti-vaccine-movement/
It boils down to the two happening close together in time and so the vaccine happens, then symptoms of G-B, which most likely was due to something else entirely. But because the two happened so close together, they blame the other symptoms on the vaccine. >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:343020 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
