According to the CDC, in the decade before the MMR vaccine was released in 1963, an estimated 3 to 4 million people were infected with measles each year. Among reported measles cases:
- 48,000 were hospitalized
- 1,000 suffered encephalitis (swelling of the brain)
- 400 to 500 people died
With the odds of serious complication and death so microscopically small, does a measles vaccine even make sense?
This type of analysis needs to be done for EVERY vaccine on the Childhood Schedule. Does subjecting every child born to the vaccine make sense?
Giving the Hepatitis B vaccine at birth? I’ll go with a big NO!