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The argument is simple.
Originally posted by Tetrarch42
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As far as vaccines causing illness, there is a small chance that vaccines using live/weakened viruses manifest into illness, that's why we don't use those kinds of vaccines on people anymore.
A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and "remember" it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters.
Will the immunization give someone the very disease it's supposed to prevent?
This is one of the most common concerns about vaccines. However, it's impossible to get the disease from any vaccine made with dead (killed) bacteria or viruses or just part of the bacteria or virus.
Only those immunizations made from weakened (also called attenuated) live viruses — like the chickenpox (varicella) or measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine — could possibly make a child develop a mild form of the disease, but it's almost always much less severe than the illness that occurs when someone is infected with the disease-causing virus itself. However, for kids with weakened immune systems, such as those being treated for cancer, these vaccines may cause problems.
The risk of disease from vaccination is extremely small. One live virus vaccine that's no longer used in the United States is the oral polio vaccine (OPV). The success of the polio vaccination program has made it possible to replace the live virus vaccine with a killed virus form known as the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). This change has completely eliminated the possibility of polio disease being caused by immunization in the United States.
Originally posted by Believer101
reply to post by Gorman91
I'd give up with OP. Obviously they're playing the 'little kid game' by covering their eyes and ears while singing 'la-la-la-la'. It's pointless with them at this point.
To be on topic, I see what you're saying with all this, Gorman.
Originally posted by Partisanity
Originally posted by Tetrarch42
Originally posted by Believer101
reply to post by Gorman91
I'd give up with OP. Obviously they're playing the 'little kid game' by covering their eyes and ears while singing 'la-la-la-la'. It's pointless with them at this point.
To be on topic, I see what you're saying with all this, Gorman.
Yup, I was really hoping this conversation could go somewhere, but apparently vaccines are bad so no one should take them and then we can all enjoy deadly illnesses that were previously controlled. I wonder if they'll say the government is attempting population control if they get diptheria. Or maybe their "healthy home grown immune systems" will save them from the diseases that have killed many times the amount dead from both world wars combined?
Trollllllllllllllllll.
Continue tip-toeing.
"OMG! HPV and the flu will kill you if you don't inject it into your blood! You're evil; putting the population at risk!"
"OMG! Home-grown immune systems?! How dare the population bolster their immune system with HEALTHFOOD to fight HPV since there's no cure and that's how you get rid of HPV! That's not a drug or vaccine and therefore makes me no money! Non-drugs and non-vaccines are evil!"
You're really cool. Promise.edit on 18-9-2011 by Partisanity because: (no reason given)
Few things in medicine work 100% of the time, but vaccines are one of the most effective weapons we have against disease — they work in 85% to 99% of cases.