Vaccination is good for the species

Just browsing my blog role and 12 angry men has a great post on vaccinations:

Disease	Rubella (German Measles)	Tetanus (Lockjaw)	Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
Effect
Pre-vax Cases/Yr	47,745	1,314	147,271
2003 Cases/Yr	7 99.9% eff.	20 98.5% eff.	11,647 92.1% eff.
Disease Risk	CRS— 1 in 4 (preg.) Arthritis — 7 in 10 (adult)	Death — 3 in 100	Death — 1 in 20 Pneumonia — 1 in 8 Encephalitis — 1 in 20
Vaccine Risk	MMR Vaccine Encephalitis or allergy — 1 in 1,000,000	DPT Vaccine Convulsion with full recovery — 1 in 1750 Acute Encephalitis — 5 in 1,000,000 Crying with full recovery — 1 in 1000 Death — 0	DPT Vaccine See Tetanus
Disease	Measles	Polio	Mumps
Effect
Pre-vax Cases/Yr	503,282	16,316	152,209
2003 Cases/Yr	56 99.9% eff.	0 100% eff.	231 99.9% eff.
Disease Risk	Death — 1 in 3000 Pneumonia — 1 in 20 Encephalitis — 1 in 2000	Death — 3 in 100 (children) Death — 2 in 10 (adult) Paralysis — 1 in 200	Encephalitis — 1 in 300 Sterility (adults)
Vaccine Risk	MMR Vaccine — see Rubella	Vaccine acquired paralytic polio — rare 144 cases in 18 years (41% healthy, 24% immunodefficient)	MMR Vaccine — see Rubella
Disease	Diptheria	Smallpox
Effect
Pre-vax Cases/Yr	175,885	48,164
2003 Cases/Yr	1 99.9% eff.	0 100% eff.
Disease Risk	Death — 1 in 20	Death — 3 in 10 Blindness Disfigurement
Vaccine Risk	DPT Vaccine See Tetanus	Not Available to Public Life-threatening reaction — 14-52 in 1,000,000

Vaccinating yourself and your family is important to the health of our entire community. Read the table above and compare the chances of serious shit affecting you or your kids if you don’t vaccinate them. Then realise that if a large number of the population decide to not vaccinate themselves that means we are all at risk. Each unvaccinated person becomes a petrie dish for the next generation of evolved infectious agents.

All the above diseases can be controlled to the point of extinction through vaccination, it just takes a few to undo that end.

Are you going to help the effort or are you going to ensure that others suffer because you believe in non-science?

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