Lest We Forget

MMR scare = FRAUD
See: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/andre-picard/medical-fraud-reveale...

Vaccination, from the Latin for cow, has probably saved more lives and prevented more misery than any single medical treatment.

Its reputation is the victim of its own success. Too many who are not acquainted with the ravages of viral infections -- now largely controlled by vaccination -- assume that inoculations are redundant. Ignorance-based urban myths, such as a research-discredited purported connection between vaccines and autism, are very difficult to eradicate in a public that is far too willing to accept the scare-mongering word of those who are ignorant of relevant science. YouTube has many such ignorant myth-mongers.

Edward Jenner (1749 1823) was an English scientist. Jenner is widely credited as the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, and is sometimes referred to as the 'Father of Immunology'. Jenner's discovery 'has saved more lives than the work of any other man'.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

http://www.cdc.gov/
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/public/vaccination_qa_pub.htm

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/h1n1/faq_rg_h1n1-eng.php

Music: St James Infirmary, Louis Armstrong

The Duke Ellington version is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Cjo5ByWjk

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[boonw]

You know, I kind of wish that the swine flu would mutate to become very nasty, then everyone who protested against the efforts of hard working doctorrs to try an keep the vaccine out could get it and see what they have been doing to people.

Vaccines remind me of GM crops, they both are safe, they both save BILLIONS of lives, yet both are protested against by the uneducated masses that use flawed thinking to propagate their shallow beleifs, causing people to die as a result.

[musekiteer]

I hope that it doesn't mutate into something nasty! Inevitably, though, something will mutate into another high-mortality pandemic.

The problem with the "uneducated masses" is not that the information is not available, it is that they are naturally immune to it. Too many of them have been inoculated with religion.

[BusterWolf23]

Wow, Medicine has come far,

Vaccination>Prayer.

[musekiteer]

// Vaccination>Prayer //

Anything beats prayer!

[BusterWolf23]

True, so true.

[TipoftheSlung]

Good one, great music too.

[musekiteer]

// Right up my alley too //

Virologist? Medical scientist? Physician?

// swift kick on the rump! //

That was the intention, though I'd hope more that the information could reach the undecideds.

[musekiteer]

Thanks, dew. This was an expression of irritation about the dangerous, uninformed, self-appointed "experts" around the internet.

I love this piece of music. Eclectic tastes ;)