NATS 1670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Swine Influenza, Polio Vaccine, Chicken Soup
17 Jan 2017
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Autism: convinced vaccines cause autism, no amount of review will dissuade these believers from the one study by dr. wakefield in 1998. Naturalistic: believe that modern medicine is killing us, and if we went back to nature we would have eternal life, natural immunity is the way to go. Vaccines are victims of their own success. Vaccine safety issues: allergies to egg and gelatin. Those with mild allergy will get vaccine but will have to stay in doctor"s office until cleared. Severe allergy will get a different vaccine: opv (oral polio vaccine) reversion to wild type infecting people with, swine flu vaccine causing gbs (guillain-barre syndrome, smallpox vaccine polio. Skin rashes (that could become fatal) but are very rare. Opv: the clutter incident: 40,000 cases of polio virus infection, leaving 200 children with different degrees of paralysis, killed 10. Andrew wakefield"s paper mmr vaccine in relation to autism.
