Deadly Choices: How the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all -- review | @GrrlScientist | Punctuated Equilibrium

My review of the exhibition presented a reasoned argument and carefully documented complaints about the peak of acute paranoia "anti-vaxxers" - a lack of information reaching citizen activist movements

There was a time when vaccines have been recognized as medical advances that are vital, but somewhere along the way, part of the public has become side followed by paranoia flowing through the misinformation of the citizens powerful movement activist, arrested and vaxxers against their children vaccinated. How one of the safest of all medical practices become as widely feared and maligned? In the book,

Options death: How the anti-vaccination movement threatens us all

(Basic Books: 2011, Amazon UK, Amazon USA) infectious disease specialist pediatric and developer of the vaccine against rotavirus, Paul Offit, studying the history of "antivax" movement in the United States and tells how this particular hysteria "went viral", threatening the health of all.

"We have reached a tipping point," Dr. Offit writes. "Children are suffering and dying because their parents are afraid of vaccines than the diseases they prevent." [P. 191]

fears of parents are surprised when they read the multitude of diseases and disorders caused by vaccines, presumably, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, learning disabilities and disorders of the Attention yes, even autism. But even before the former British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, has presented its request for a link between vaccines and autism in a 1998 paper supported scientists in 2010, vaccines have inspired fear in at least some segments of the people. More than 100 years, a significant proportion of the population is afraid of vaccines against smallpox, which protected them against smallpox. Although this vaccine

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the mortality rate of smallpox at the time, there was a popular movement in Britain to hold this innovation to save lives because people fear that the other diseases which could make the target mad or turn them into cattle. With a history that would be easy to be dismissive or contemptuous of public concern. And indeed, Dr. Offit has long been an outspoken critic of the anti-vaccination, but in this book, which presents an overview discussion of impartial vaccines, including setbacks, as the vaccine against polio (which can cause polio ) - but now it is enough to tell us that most vaccines are based on live virus.

Dr. Offit argues that the anti-vaccination movement feeds on fears of inspiration are against the current research. It clearly explains why some so-called "risks" of vaccines are not physiologically realistic or possible, and speaks of scientific studies to effectively dismantle unfounded claims against the vaxxers. But it also reminds us that some vaccines

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safer for everyone if "Big Pharma" has had a financial incentive or a government mandate to do so - cause the anti-vaxxers should redirect their energies towards supporting very large. For example, people with egg allergies can not get the vaccine from chicken eggs - which means they can not get vaccinated against influenza.

• Although based on science to refute the stories repeated by anti-vaxxers, Dr. Offit not forget to share personal stories, too. In the last chapter, visiting several cities in America to tell us what happens when someone who is too young to be vaccinated or whose immune system is unable to produce antibodies in response to a vaccine is exposed to an infected child whose parents have chosen
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to be vaccinated. These stories show how a seemingly private decision not to vaccinate the children of self-threatening others - with potentially tragic consequences. However, this final chapter is not at all depressing, but to the parents speak, and people are listening.

This fascinating book is a sincere reading and education for all health professionals, managers of public health, especially for parents. We present a detailed argument, written in a clear, meticulously source and support of the scientific basis underlying the vaccine, an analysis of real and imagined risks of vaccination, and the consequences of private decisions public that we are all about vaccines.

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Paul Offit

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