Mid Michigan - Saginaw area | As late as 1935 (4 years before I was born) 50% of children did not make it to age ten
Yes, antibiotics and vaccines have made a difference BUT the biggest change was enforcement of Public Health measures - septic systems, banning raw milk, quarantine for certain diseases, food/medicine purity regulations stopping adulteration with everything from sawdust in bread to arsenic in tonics for rosy cheeks
Yes we had an antibiotic since the 1800's, Sulfonamide (I am deathly allergic)
But Penicillin only became available to the general public after 1945
Vaccine for polio was the late 1950's and it made a tremendous difference to crowded cities. I was vaccinated with live-attenuated polio virus
It was followed by general mass child vaccination for the big 3 (MMR) measles/mumps/german-measles)
Tetanus and later combined Diptheria, Pertussis and Tetanus became common vaccines
It is only a few years back that we lost a 6 year old here in Michigan to Pertussis (whooping cough) - her teeny bopper mother did not believe in vaccination and the child paid the price (that mother should have been charged with manslaughter)
You can graph the increase in average life span, decreases in loss of hearing or paralysis, decreased child mortality, etc. with the introduction of each vaccine
These are facts
Those who feel that vaccines are dangerous are in denial - and as long as it is your body (shrug) do as you will
But when you threaten a child with contracting an illness with possible paralysis, deafness, blindness, or death by withholding the vaccines because you are 'worried' you become a threat not only too that child but to all children who have not finished their shot series and pregnant women who come in contact
Making vaccination a requirement to attend public school will be national lw within our lifetimes
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Edited by oconnorfarms 5/23/2015 12:24
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