Why are more parents scared of vaccines?

Question

I don't understand whats wrong with them. My son has had all his shots and I will keep getting them. What are your opinions?

Answer 1

There is nothing wrong with vaccines for the majority. But there are cases where allergies to the preservatives, or fear of autism may prevent parents from vaccinating their children. Sometimes its as simple as religous beliefs. Whatever the case, there is nothing wrong with either choice, you can vaccinate your children or not, its what you choose to be the safest decision for yourself and what you can live with.

Answer 2

Because a lot of vaccines are linked more to causing the disease then curing it if you bother to do your research.

Do you ACTUALLY know what is in a vaccine??
while mercury has been removed from a lot of infants vaccines they still contain a HUGE range of chemicals and other weird things including
Formaldehyde
Antifreeze
Aluminium
Borax
Animal cell (often from eggs or mokeys)
Aborted human foetal tissue (for all those of you against abortions you are injecting them into your children!!!)
Latex

And a WHOLE lot more. I bet you never even knew that huh?
And an infants livers and kidneys do not function very well, neither does their immune system, you don't really know what it is doing when you inject all that stuff into a baby.

The thing is they cannot legally test ANY of these ingresdients on infants because it is illegal. SO they test them on animals and adults but they don't know how its going to react to infants.

The sad part is that the only form they have to know if vaccines are working is through The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). http://vaers.hhs.gov/
Basically they only know if vaccines cause a reaction if someone reports the reactions. Most parents don't even know about VAERS to report a problem if they suspected one and doctors have been told over and over the vaccines are safe so they don't associate and report most reaction incidents.

So REALLY no one truthfully know how safe vaccines really are.

In fact some of the vaccines they give infants is from sexually transmitted diseases. Is your newborn sleeping around and using unsterill needles??
At the same time with ALL the vaccines kids get and ALL the kids, the vaccine industry is a multi-billion a year industry (and by the way johnson and johnson is owned by one of the largest vaccine producers in the US, as well as 2 differnet baby magazines) so why wouldn't they tell you to get your vaccines?

Personally I feel my children are all VERY healthy with strong immune systems, they don't need to be pumped full of all that stuff.
If they choose when they are older that they feel they need them (say they are traveling over seas or something) they can always get them.

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Answer 3

some say that there is a link to autism. also sometimes i think that society is over medicating some things, for example chicken pox, they now have a vaccine for something that is not deadly and its not even that bad. if a child gets chicken pox they are done with it, an adult who gets it has a more severe case of it. whos to say that the shot doesnt just postpone a person from getting it? now that they are giving a chicken pox vaccine, it will be almost impossible for an unvaccinated child to get it, so they are pretty much left with no options, they are better off taking their chances with the shot. my daughter has all her shots (because she has to or the daycare wont allow her in), some of them i would have rather not given to her, but others i would rather her have. i do not let them give her a flu shot, and i dont get one either, i do not believe they are effective, every year i got one (because the army forced me to) i constantly got sick, and now that i dont get them any more, i hardly get sick, maybe its just a coincidence but i dont think so. i think i am against shots because when i was in the army, they stuck me with something at least once every two months, i probably glow under black light from all the crap they put in me (and this is recent, im not a WWII vet or anything)

Answer 4

Well, a lot of eldery died as a result of flu vaccines once. Also I know a girl who GOT polio from a bad batch of vaccine.

I got very sick as a result of the Plague shot in the Army.

There IS some reason to fear.

Doctors get a box of something and just start using it.

We put TOO much faith in the system and sometimes the system fails us.

That's why malpratice insurance is so high and why so many lawyers specialize in this form of law.

Answer 5

Because vaccines are actually derivatives OF the illnesses they inoculate against. My daughter had the MMR and then came down with the measles from it. There is LITERALLY nothing more "rewarding "(Yes I am being sarcastic!) than a 14 month old baby who whines and cries for 4 days and three nights STRAIGHT and you are the ONLY parent available and you have no family or friends around to give you relief so that you can sleep...

Answer 6

Current fear of vaccines is brought about by the fact that more and more government agencies (local, state, federal) are making it mandatory for people to get vaccines.

One has to weigh public health and safety vs personal freedoms. Consider a highly contagious airborne virus vs something that can only be passed through sexual contact? Which vaccine should be allowed to be mandated by law?

Answer 7

I keep my daughter on schedule with her vaccines. I don't understand the fear of vaccines either - we really don't need an outbreak of a disease when our kids are old enough for school. And some people use religion as an excuse not to get vaccines, which I think is ridiculous they can get away with it when registering their kids for school and vaccines are required.

Answer 8

There is some research out there that suggest a link between vaccination and autism. I did a research paper on this subject for one of my classes and essentially there is a very minute link between the two. I think that the media has made a bigger deal out of it that it really is. I too have vaccinated all three of my children and they are all fine.

Answer 9

i overheard parents in the dr. office talking about how some vaccination are made up of animal something or other and think its cruel. they said their kids dont need them anyway since their homeschooled. i keep mine vacc. regularly.

Answer 10

Some parents think they are plain uneeded or have a link to autism. However I think to remain a epidemic free society it is crutal that children recieve them, however that is just IMO