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Vaccines Delayed, Distrusted by Parents, Study Says

Posted: October 4, 2011

percentage of parents who don't vaccinate

If you’ve just gotten to the internet in the past five minutes, you may not have noticed that vaccines are somewhat of a controversial subject.

Immunizations are one of the greatest (if not the greatest) advancement of the past century or so, saving millions from now-preventable diseases and eradicating some of the biggest killers in human history. But as memory of childhood deaths from smallpox fade from modern consciousness, so too does the drive to continue vaccinating children according to the vaccine schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC.)

A recent survey of parents across the United States revealed that 10% do not vaccinate in accordance with the recommended timeline, opting for deferred vaccination or declining some of the vaccines recommended by the CDC. Only 2% of parents opt not to vaccinate children at all, the survey revealed.

Vaccine researcher Dr. Paul Offit was interviewed in relation to the survey’s results and reiterated that not only were vaccines generally safe, but that there was no benefit to delaying a vaccine and that the practice is not known to prevent the rare side effects that stem from vaccines.

… 81 percent of parents who skipped or delayed vaccines did not “agree” with the fact that leaving children unvaccinated puts them and their community at risk for disease.

“That’s wrong,” Offit said. “Those decisions are being made not only on false beliefs on vaccine safety, but also false believes on contagious disease and transmission.” He added that the vaccination schedule was developed out of safety data from the clinical trials of vaccines.

Researchers say that decreasing experience with the diseases vaccinated against coupled with a heightened perception of vaccine danger is causing the trend of vaccine rejection. But the experts also advise against doctors “firing” non-compliant families from their practices.

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4 Archived Responses to “ Vaccines Delayed, Distrusted by Parents, Study Says ”

  1. Joanna Karpasea-Jones
    Oct 6, 2011

    So the 25 pages of DEATH reports after vaccination reported to VAERS, are false, are they? And that's only the deaths. There are THOUSANDS of reported cases of injury, brain damage and disabilities listed on VAERS. You can search it yourself here:

    http://www.medalerts.org/

    And before you say that VAERS information isn't reliable, maybe then the governments should give us something that is. Why expect us to submit to vaccination when its safety is only monitored passively? The FDA admitted that only around 10% of vaccine reactions ever get reported as such as it is up to the doctor to report and they won't.

    In the UK there is also no compensation available to parents if their child is injured or killed by a vaccine before the age of 2 years (when most of the vaccines are given). Seems to me like the government is telling us not to vaccinate our kids until age 2 if they can't be bothered to compensate victims below that age.

    http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/Disabledpeople/DG_10018714

    And £120,000 is not going to pay for the life time care of a severely injured child or compensate his parents for the loss of their career and possibly their marriage. If I was injured in a botched childbirth or by a careless surgeon, I would expect a figure a great deal more than that. So why are vaccines exempt from the law?

    If you look at any manufacturers data sheet on vaccines, you will find it has never been tested for carcinogenic, mutagenic properties or for impairment of fertility.

    http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM192127.pdf (page 8). Most vaccine leaflets will have similar statements.

    Since they use vaccines on a mass scale you would have thought that they would have tested them for this. There are also tons more vaccines now than there ever used to be, and more being added to the list. Hep B for babies (a sexually transmitted disease), rotavirus, for heaven's sake! It's a stomach bug. Perfectly curable with breast milk and clean water. Parents use their common sense when choosing vaccines (or rejecting them) and it's clear to a lot of us that this is more of a commercial interest than one about the children.

    So you might not mind being a guinea pig or injecting your family with formaldehyde, mercury, aluminium, shark liver oil, monkey kidneys and bits of aborted baby, but there are a lot of parents that do, and we aren't going to go away. Patronizing us with frankly insulting comments about how we listen to false stories and we just don't know what we are doing, isn't working.

  2. Gabriel Bradford Millar
    Oct 8, 2011

    Hello, Joanna – Where can I get two copies of "Everything there is to know about vaccination'? The two v@n uk numbers are out of order.

  3. Gabriel Bradford Millar
    Oct 8, 2011

    Bless You, Gabriel Millar, therapist You can reply on my Facebook page

  4. Joanna Karpasea-Jones
    Oct 8, 2011

    I replied to your private facebook email, looks like facebook posted your question on the newspaper article! Thanks FB, talk about big brother is watching you!!