States in the U.S. mandate immunization, or obtaining exemption, before children enroll in public school. Exemptions are typically for people who have compromised immune systems, allergies to the components used in vaccinations, or strongly held objections. All states but West Virginia and Mississippi allow religious exemptions, and twenty states allow parents to cite personal or philosophical objections. A widespread and growing number of parents falsely claim religious and philosophical beliefs to get vaccination exemptions, and an increasing number of disease outbreaks have come from communities where herd immunity was lost due to insufficient vaccination. More: en.wikipedia.org.

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Apr 3, 2015

There is no zero evidence that vaccines have anything to do with autism. There are a ton of studies to show that. It's unfortunate that the symptoms of autism show up at the same age that we give vaccines.

To add to the "problem" the definition of autism has changed over the years and now include many more children. So we changed the definition to include more children and people are surprised that the rate of autism suddenly jumped.

Andrew Wakefield study (if you can call it that) has been discredited and it was found that he had undisclosed financial conflicts of interest outcome of his study.

The vaccines and autism crowd keep moving the goal post so to speak, prove that mercury didn't cause autism and remove it just to be safe, well it's the number of shots, prove that it isn't the number of shots, then it's the amount of vaccines given at one time that cause it, prove it's not the number of vaccines given at one time, they say... and on and on.

The truth is we give vaccines about the same time as when you'd notice autism in children, we had in increase in the number of autism cases because we've redefined the term to include more people. By not vaccinating we are now seeing a marked increase in disease that could be prevented. After generations of our children being vaccinated we really haven't had to deal with diseases like rubella, polio, measles, mumps, chickenpox, whooping cough, and typhoid, people forget how bad they are, then when the rate of autism increases (do in the change in definition) something must be to blame and since vaccines are given at about the same time as people notice autism symptoms people conclude, wrongly, that it must be the vaccines. There is no correlation, it like saying most people who commit crime have eaten bread before committing their crime. It is a factual statement but it doesn't mean eating bread causes people to commit crimes. No more than drinking water causes crime, I could make a link between water consumption and autism, solid food and autism, tv and autism, barney and autism etc. Take anything a child of that age does and you can point to it and say that is the cause of autism, just because x happens doesn't mean it causes y to happen also.

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Jul 17, 2015
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Apr 3, 2015

As long as we don't use a form of Mercury as a preservative, I am a strong advocate of vaccinations. My view is based on personal experience.

My son Richard (born in 1984) got his usual shots, and was up all night crying. I rocked him the whole night trying to comfort him. When I called the doctor's office the next day, all the nurse could tell me was that this was not one of the listed side-effects. Richard went to a special pre-school for "being slow" and is now no longer with us.

My step-son Elrick had the same experience as Richard, and is severely autistic. He's 20 but has the mentality of a young child. I've researched this to some extent, and it is my great personal belief that the Mercury-based preservative was the culprit. I'm glad it's no longer used in the US and wish it would never be used anywhere in the world as a preservative for vaccines.

Other than that I am a very strong proponent of vaccinations!

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Sep 29, 2015

Mercury is not used in its toxic elemental form. It is properly bonded in a non-toxic form. It's standard practice for a reason.

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Sep 29, 2015

No, not in any way that matters.

Any condition like autism has numerous causes and influences. Every patient is unique. Every child is unique. In individual cases, it could be possible that a vaccine could have influenced some causal factor that may have aggravated autistic symptoms. But in the aggregate, there is no causal correlation once one has properly controlled for a few variables.

The people who want to talk about vaccines causing autism are demonstrating a real lack of the complexities of neurochemistry and of tracing causes of any condition.

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