2007-08-11 09:23:39 · 6 answers · asked by chloe 5 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Vaccines actually weaken the immune system instead of strengthening it. There isn't enough evidence to prove that they actually help prevent disease. There are also a lot of risks associated with vaccines, but they are not proven either. So to answer your question, there isn't enough knowledge on the subject, and not enough proof. So why risk giving a child shots, when it's not certain that it's going to help them avoid illnesses. One is for sure, and any doctor will agree. They weaken the immune system, they don't strengthen it.
2007-08-12 22:10:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good; they protect children and adults against many horrible life threatening diseases. There are slight risks associated with vaccination, but they pale in comparison with the huge risk of death associated with many diseases that we can vaccinate against.
My children are all vaccinated, this year they got their fluvax needle as usual. So far six unvaccinated children in Aust. have died from the flu. We are visiting family at the moment, and they are all unvaccinated and dropping like flies from the flu (two are in hospital right now). My son has chronic lung disease and if he hadn't got his needle this year, he would have contracted the flu without a doubt, and would probably be dead right now. I'm convinced the needle has saved his life this year at least.
2007-08-12 03:46:45 · answer #2 · answered by KooriGirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on wether you're talking about a species or an individual.
For an individual, it's good if it keeps you from being crippled or dying from a childhood, or adulthood disease. Otherwise, it keeps your immune system from building up strength.
For a species, as long as a disease doesn't wipe out the whole species, it probably weakens it. But this is not certain either. Perhaps the plague, while killing off all people who were not genetically resistant to it, killed off all of those people who were resistant to some other stuff.
2007-08-12 07:56:23 · answer #3 · answered by LG 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chloe, I vote good because when I was a child my parents saw that I was vaccinated and to my knowledge, to this day (I'm now 46), I have never contracted any of the childhood maladies, measles,mumps, chicken pox, or any of the childhood maladies.
2007-08-11 09:32:08 · answer #4 · answered by marywk54 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES... they are needed. I've been vaccinated for small pox. polio, dinghe fever, malaria, typhoid and other diseases that I REALLY don't want to catch.
One of the reasons that many diseases which have been dormant for many years are coming back is the number of parents who don't believe in getting their children vacinnated before sending them to school without realizing they may be sending them to their death, too.
2007-08-11 09:32:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
beleive me, they are definately good
when my first baby was 10 weeks she caught whooping cough and was in the childrens hospital for 10 days, the doctors said if she didnt get her first shots at 8 weeks she may have died, they saved her life, my 4 kids are up to date with their immunisations, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
alot of people are against the shots, but if their kids caught any of those preventable diseases then i guess theyd regret their choice. whooping cough is a biitch, she was having coughing fits till she was 8 months old
2007-08-11 21:06:41 · answer #6 · answered by ROCKMUM LOVES BOWIE 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋