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First, a few facts about the harm caused by the fear of vaccines.

- The European Center For Disease Control reports outbreaks of measles in many countries where vaccination rates have gone down: As of June - France (12,699 cases in 2011, more than in all of 2010 already, including six deaths), Spain (2,261), Italy (1,500), Germany (1,193, one death). There have already been 550 measles cases in England and Wales this year compared with 33 all of last year.

- The U.S. has had 156 cases as of mid-June, compared to a total of 56 cases per year from 2001-2008. The CDC has an emergency health advisory for measles, a disease officially declared eradicated in the United States in 2000.

- A 2008 study in Michigan found that areas with "exemption clusters" of parents who didn’t vaccinate their kids were three times more likely to have outbreaks of whooping cough than where vaccination rates matched the state average. In 2010 as California suffered its worst whooping cough outbreak in more than 60 years (more than 9,000 cases, 10 infant deaths), Marin County, one of the richest and most educated areas in California, had one of the lowest rates of vaccination statewide and the second highest rate of whooping cough.

- The risk is not just to people who have opted out of vaccination. Of the 156 measles victims in the U.S. as of June, nearly one in five of them had been vaccinated but the vaccine didn’t work, or had weakened. Infants too young to be vaccinated are getting sick, and some of them are dying, when exposed to diseases where ‘herd immunity’ has fallen too low to keep the spread of the disease in check. Unvaccinated disease victims cost the health care system millions of dollars, and local and state government millions more as they try to bring each outbreak under control. A recent economic analysis found that "…vaccination of each U.S. birth cohort with the current childhood immunization schedule prevents approximately 42,000 deaths and 20 million cases of disease, with net savings of nearly $14 billion in direct costs and $69 billion in total societal costs."

gzyra napisał(a): Spotkałem też takich wegetarian, bo niestety pośród tej grupy mitomania kwitnie, że hej.

gzyra napisał(a):nie mówię szczepionki są zrobione bez udziału cierpienia zwierząt. Po prostu ratują zdrowie i życie, a nie ma wegańskich alternatyw, więc ich stosowanie jest moim zdaniem usprawiedliwione.