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I hate to open this topic up again because people become rather rabid about their opinions. I'm hoping in this thread we can be lively but civil, respect each other's opinions, and use actual scientific data (not psudoscience) to support our points. Don't know about you but I really trust articles from pubmed or scholarly journals, especially ones that have been repeated several times with the same results. Also epilepsy.com, epilepsyfoundation.org, etc.
Down to business. Okay. I'm the first to admit it when I'm wrong. The article below talks about vaccines and seizures. It seems vaccines can cause seizures in children. I have always believed it couldn't, or that if it did it was incidental. This REALLY surprised me. Looks very temporary and treatable, but nonetheless:
http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/infectious_cdv.html
I don't know what the odds are of this happening. Maybe someone in here can do some research and find out. Real scientific research, as in Pubmed. I'm very interested in the epidemiology and how many kids suffer from this.
The benefits of vaccines still outweigh the risks, as far as mortality goes. Unvaccinated people have a far greater chance of being incapacitated or dying from disease than they have of having a serious side effect from a vaccine. I'd still vaccinate my children (and myself) given the low odds of complications, and our responsibility to the greater society (protecting the lives of the people around us and completely wiping killer diseases from this earth).
Down to business. Okay. I'm the first to admit it when I'm wrong. The article below talks about vaccines and seizures. It seems vaccines can cause seizures in children. I have always believed it couldn't, or that if it did it was incidental. This REALLY surprised me. Looks very temporary and treatable, but nonetheless:
http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/infectious_cdv.html
I don't know what the odds are of this happening. Maybe someone in here can do some research and find out. Real scientific research, as in Pubmed. I'm very interested in the epidemiology and how many kids suffer from this.
The benefits of vaccines still outweigh the risks, as far as mortality goes. Unvaccinated people have a far greater chance of being incapacitated or dying from disease than they have of having a serious side effect from a vaccine. I'd still vaccinate my children (and myself) given the low odds of complications, and our responsibility to the greater society (protecting the lives of the people around us and completely wiping killer diseases from this earth).
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