"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes:

I don't know when this started but I know that this was the case in Ohio
in
1987 when my younger daughter was born. The fact that states require the
immunizations for school is why the county boards of health were required
to
make the shots available to all at cost. While they were actually
cheaper
via the county board of health, there was often no physician on hand in
case
of problems.

Amazing.

Yes many people are unaware of the death rates from some of these
diseases.
For example, the death rate among children who caught whooping cough was
50%.

I didn't know it was that bad.


Yup. Like you, most people don't know how high the fatality rate was. The
reason is simple. Whooping cough, the Pertussis in DPT, was a very serious
disease. However very, very few people have ever seen a case. It was
pretty much brought under control 50 years or more ago. People have seen
the wide variety of stuff lumped under "croup" and have mis-applied the term
whooping cough to various severe coughs but they are not the same thing.

There is also a lot of bad science out there involving immunizations. For
example, there are still folks trying to sell the idea that immunizations
are
somehow a cause of autism, even though repeated scientific studies have
shown
no causality. There *is* a sort of correlation in that the first
definitive
signs of autism are usually observed about the age of many common
immunizations.


Even if there were a causal effect, the odds of this happening are so very
much lower than the odds of dying should the child contract Whooping Cough
that it's far better to get the immunizations.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE