Posted on 05/09/2014 6:18:00 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
I was brought up on an incredibly healthy diet: no sugar till I was one, breastfed for over a year, organic homegrown vegetables, raw milk, no MSG, no additives, no aspartame. My mother used homeopathy, aromatherapy, osteopathy, we took daily supplements of vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil.
I had an outdoor lifestyle; I grew up next to a farm, walked everywhere, did sports and danced twice a week, drank plenty of water. I wasn’t even allowed pop; even my fresh juice was watered down to protect my teeth, and I would’ve killed for white, shop-bought bread in my lunch box once in a while and biscuits instead of fruit like all the other kids.
We only ate (organic local) meat maybe once or twice a week and my mother and father cooked everything from scratch – I have yet to taste a Findus crispy pancake and oven chips were reserved for those nights when mum and dad had friends over and we got a “treat.”
As healthy as my lifestyle seemed, I contracted measles, mumps, rubella, a type of viral meningitis, scarlatina, whooping cough, yearly tonsillitis, and chickenpox, some of which are vaccine preventable. In my twenties I got precancerous HPV and spent 6 months of my life wondering how I was going to tell my two children under the age of 7 that mummy might have cancer before it was safely removed.
So having the “natural immunity sterilised out of us” just doesn’t cut it for me. How could I, with my idyllic childhood and my amazing health food, get so freaking ill all the time?
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It happened, there was a bad batch of vaccine that infected a couple of hundred people.
“”After mass inoculations began in 1954, everyone marveled at the high success rate—some 60-70 percent—until the vaccine caused a sudden outbreak of some 200 cases. After it was determined that the cases were all caused by one faulty batch of the vaccine, production standards were improved, and by August 1955 some 4 million shots had been given. Cases of polio in the U.S. dropped from 14,647 in 1955 to 5,894 in 1956, and by 1959 some 90 other countries were using Salk’s vaccine.
A later version of the polio vaccine, developed by Albert Sabin, used a weakened form of the live virus and was swallowed instead of injected. It was licensed in 1962 and soon became more popular than Salk’s vaccine, as it was cheaper to make and easier for people to take. There is still no cure for polio once it has been contracted, but the use of vaccines has virtually eliminated polio in the United States.””
This is one of the reasons they discontinued the use of the live vaccine in the US. I personally know 2 people who contracted polio within a week or so of having had the live vaccine in the late 50’s. One of them spent time in an iron lung. This was a known side effect of the live vaccine.
The live vaccine is still used in the 3rd world. The feces of the vaccinated person can still transmit polio virus for several weeks after they’ve been vaccinated. It was a problem in the 3rd world with ‘sanitation problems’ when they first started vaxing for that. Mom would change the baby’s diaper/tend the baby’s feces and contract polio. Also the fact that open sewers ran down the middle of most of the streets helped spread it as well.
The live vaccine also spread another virus (a contaminent in the green monkey kidneys used to culture the vaccine) called SV40 which has been linked to soft tissue cancer and also appears to be spread by sexual contact. Ie, they’ve found it in children of those who were vaccinated with batches known to be contaminated who have themselves never received a live vaccine.
Because the life style wasn’t any more healthy than any other, maybe less so even, but was superstitious.
And because you weren’t vaccinated against diseases, so you caught them later.
Stupid hippies.
Nothing personal, but your comment is pure ignorance.
Indeed.
My mother used to make a vile concoction called “Tiger’s Milk.” A major ingredient was brewer’s yeast.
An ingredient of the broth used to grow bacteria in the lab is autolyzed yeast. Every time I mix up media for bacteria, the stench of that yeast brings me right back to my childhood.
I think you need to check on your sanity or demonic possession status, whichever way you like to look at it.
Or just admit you are a lefty.
““”After mass inoculations began in 1954, everyone marveled at the high success rate—some 60-70 percent—until the vaccine caused a sudden outbreak of some 200 cases. After it was determined that the cases were all caused by one faulty batch of the vaccine, production standards were improved, and by August 1955 some 4 million shots had been given. Cases of polio in the U.S. dropped from 14,647 in 1955 to 5,894 in 1956, and by 1959 some 90 other countries were using Salk’s vaccine.”
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I was unaware of a bad batch-—thanks for the info.
I was teaching 1st grade in 1954-55 and the kids received the vaccine during that school year. It was a great thing for all of us.
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quinsy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peritonsillar_abscess
Peritonsillar abscess (PTA), also known as a quinsy or quinsey, is a recognized complication of tonsillitis and consists of a collection of pus beside the tonsil in what is referred to as peritonsilar space (peri—meaning surrounding). It is a commonly encountered otorhinolaryngological (ENT) emergency.
It was a miracle.
Vaccinations that were developed in the 20th century are the height of human achievement. The height of conservative rational achievement.
The suffering and deaths of millions upon millions were avoided.
I often think one of the reasons we are so messed up now as a society is because of our triumphs, life became so easy.
What a great, fact filled post...
I had to deal with a ‘SIDS’ death in the Army. It occurred on the night of the 6-month (MMR) vaccination. I asked the attending hospital nurse if she though the vaccine had anything to do with the child’s death. Her response: “we’re not supposed to talk about that”. Dead and damaged babies are the cost of the Faustian Deal the medical community has made since the late 1800s to stop commonplace outbreaks of cholera, rubella, etc. which were spread in open air markets and in poor sanitation. With under developed immune systems the babies were the vectors so they were the targets for immunization. I don’t see people throwing garbage and sewage in public, open-air food markets yet I do see children dying and damaged from vaccines used to combat the ghosts of 19th century sanitation.
or wait until they are older and spread them out. and also use fresher vaccines without questionable unnecessary preservatives. use vaccines that don’t have squalene and thimerosal and the rest of the crap that isnt vaccine.
and realize you can still have problems from the vaccine or the extras in it.
“Vaccinations that were developed in the 20th century are the height of human achievement.”
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Yep. I had measles,mumps,whooping cough,and chicken pox.My brother got all of those plus scarlet fever and that forced us to be quarantined for 3 weeks.
Polio was the terror every summer.
Tough times.
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“I have had the relatively safe vaccines such as flu shots all the way up to small pox and anthrax. No issues. Same for every other soldier I served with.”
Same here. Had all the shots I needed as a kid, and the Army took care of the rest. I never have had mumps, but had measles and chicken pox in a row when I was about 8 or so.
I forgot to mention in my previous post that my father had died from tuberculosis a few years earlier.
My poor Mom.
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It wasn’t just a bad batch. It is/was a known side effect of the live virus vaccine. Still. It’s one of the reasons the live virus vaccine was discontinued in this country. The killed virus vaccine isn’t as effective though so the live one is still used in hot spots like Asia.
Live vaccines always have a risk of contracting the disease itself. One of my former coworkers contracted chickenpox from his infant/toddler daughter when she got her varicella vaccine. When he visited his internist it was one of the first questions the doc asked him. Was he around any young children who may have been recently vaccinated or anyone who had a case of the shingles. His kid had been vaxed about a week or 10 days previously. Coworker had had chickenpox as a kid, too.
its strange that her parents would try something different than the typical main stream medicine, pharmaceutical and food industries, considering how rare disease is among those who live like most of the country does.
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