Date: 10/29/03 9:28:28 AM
> Subject: [NVIC] The Truth Comes Out- Vaccination Rates High
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> E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER
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> "Protecting the health and informed consent rights of children 
since
1982." 
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> BL Fisher Note:
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> It all began this summer when parents in Texas, after seven years 
of
> educating the Texas legislature, got a conscientious belief 
exemption to
> vaccination signed into law by the Governor. Angry that parents in 
Texas
> would now have informed consent to vaccination and unable to 
successfully
> pressure the Governor to repeal the law, state and federal health
officials
> began whipping up fear and hysteria in the media and the public 
with
reports
> of whooping cough "outbreaks" in certain states. They have been 
blaming
the
> whooping cough "outbreaks" on parents taking exemptions to 
vaccination and
> not vaccinating their children.
>
> Now the real truth emerges. As we knew it would.
>
> Vaccination rates are at an all time high for children entering
> kindergarten. The USA has vaccination rates that are approaching 
100
percent
> for some vaccines like DTAP, which is supposed to protect against 
whooping
> cough. It is poor vaccine efficacy, not poor vaccine uptake that 
generates
> whooping cough in highly vaccinated populations such as the US. In 
most
> whooping cough "outbreaks" the majority of the cases occur in the
> vaccinated. A 95 percent vaccination rate in any population is more 
than
> enough for herd immunity to be in force. The unvaccinated catch it 
from
> someone - most likely someone who has been vaccinated 
considering the fact
> there is a 95 percent plus uptake in American children.
>
> The more government health officials and doctors fronting for drug
companies
> speak out of both sides of their mouth and disseminate false and
misleading
> information about diseases and vaccines, the more the people know 
they
can't
> believe anything they say.
>
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> PEDIATRIC NEWS
> October 2003 Ä Volume 37 Ä Number 10
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