New study: Nations requiring the most vaccines tend to have the worst infant mortality rates

Thursday, March 24, 2011 by: Neil Z. Miller

(NaturalNews) Earlier this month (March 2011), Japanese authorities ordered doctors to stop using pneumococcal and Hib vaccines because four children died after receiving the shots. However, the real news was never reported: more than 2,000 babies died in the United States after receiving vaccines for these very same diseases, yet authorities refuse to warn parents and halt production. A safety review is vital to determine whether a recall of the dangerous shots may be necessary to protect additional American babies from disability and death.

According to Paul Offit, media spokesperson for the vaccine industry, "the Japanese Ministry of Health was foolish to suspend the Hib and pneumococcal programs." Offit thinks the deaths were probably caused by SIDS, or underlying conditions, or another cause - anything except the vaccines. Often, children get sick and die by chance.

Vaccine Risks Are Outweighed by the Risks of Not Vaccinating

Paul A. Offit is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and author of Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases and Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. Louis M. Bell is chief of general pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and coauthor with Offit of Vaccines: What You Should Know.

Many people concerned about vaccines spread disinformation about the need for childhood vaccination. Vaccines work very well to prevent disease and are necessary, even though the diseases they prevent are not common—in fact, vaccines are part of the reason this is so. Vaccines are not entirely harmless, but the small risks are outweighed by the benefits of disease prevention. Despite claims by critics, babies can tolerate the a high number of vaccines, and these vaccines prevent diseases that can occur in infancy. Studies have disputed claims by critics that autism is caused by a particular vaccine.
It seems that almost every month newspaper articles and television programs depict the horrors of vaccines. The villains of these stories are greedy vaccine manufacturers, disinterested doctors, and burdensome regulatory agencies. The focus of the stories is that children are hurt unnecessarily by vaccines, and the tone is one of intrigue and cover-up.