tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post5009191075915801831..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Small pox, breakthrough doctors and the anti-VaxxersHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-10295159931956245322018-06-02T07:53:06.995+10:002018-06-02T07:53:06.995+10:00Parnassus
Adults are entitled to do whatever they...Parnassus<br /><br />Adults are entitled to do whatever they want to their own bodies, including jumping out of small planes without a parachute, facial scarring to look like a cat, drinking absinthe to the point of psychosis etc. So if adults have a reason to avoid inoculations for themselves, I suppose they may do so. <br /><br />But children under 21 cannot make informed decisions for themselves and to subject them to possible tragedy by smallpox, whooping cough or any other preventable disease is tantamount to child abuse. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-77535906247331388082018-06-02T05:40:52.285+10:002018-06-02T05:40:52.285+10:00Hello Hels, In these days of medical miracles, it...Hello Hels, In these days of medical miracles, it is amazing that people would put their children's lives and health at risk of such deadly and hideous diseases for crackpot reasons. Just the fact that smallpox is now rare after inoculation became standard is reason enough to continue it. <br /><br />This post reminds me of the one you wrote about cochlear implants, and how some people strongly objected to that miracle cure, but the anti-inoculators are even worse, insisting on their right to subject everyone to indescribable illness and danger.<br />--Jim Parnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-83837763501706003552018-05-30T19:02:20.480+10:002018-05-30T19:02:20.480+10:00mem
Yes indeed. the last serious epidemics of sma...mem<br /><br />Yes indeed. the last serious epidemics of smallpox that I could find were in Northern Australia (1865-1870); Sweden (1873-4); the USA (1902); Nigeria (1958) etc. The worldwide vaccination campaigns against smallpox ended in 1979, apparently because the disease had been wiped off the face of the earth by then.<br /><br />Unless smallpox returns again, our future debates will be about other vaccination campaigns. Whooping cough, for example, remains a major crisis in developing countries, where mass vaccination is not practised. The World Health Organisation estimated whooping cough caused 294,000 deaths in 2002.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-76834388890742744042018-05-30T17:32:05.531+10:002018-05-30T17:32:05.531+10:00An interesting topic . its interesting to hear of ...An interesting topic . its interesting to hear of early anti vaxers particularly when you consider that they saw much more often than we do now , the results of not vaccinating . I had always thought that the modern doubts stemmed from losing touch with the fragility of human life given our great health system, But no people have always been stupid and been prone to believing in conspiracy theories. Very sobering when you consider that we have a great need to act rationally with regard to Climate change !!!! memhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05520080648914042943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-36405664327769958322018-05-30T10:58:20.758+10:002018-05-30T10:58:20.758+10:00Joseph
I draw two conclusions from the heroic wor...Joseph<br /><br />I draw two conclusions from the heroic work that medical researchers did, when they were facing bitter opposition to a new medical procedure.<br />1. EVERY step of the process and EVERY result to the patient had to be published openly. No other scientist could have learned about the successes and failures, had it not been for the British Medical Journal, Lancet etc.<br />2. Once a procedure was published by one medical researcher, it then had to be repeated with other populations over and over again. Only thus could the validity and reliability of the procedures be confirmed or rejected.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-78919636560328493622018-05-30T10:49:52.813+10:002018-05-30T10:49:52.813+10:00Andrew
Edward Jenner was indeed the young country...Andrew<br /><br />Edward Jenner was indeed the young country lad who head a milkmaid boast "I shall never have smallpox for I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly pockmarked face." If the story was true, he remembered the details until he was old enough to study their implications. <br /><br />Peter Curson wrote: Between 1789 and 1917, Australia experienced at least 15 epidemics of smallpox with case fatality rates of up to 30%. After 1853 all Australian colonies with the exception of NSW and Qld passed compulsory smallpox vaccination acts, but only in Vic and S.A was the legislation pursued with any vigour. Even during the 1913-17 smallpox outbreak in NSW when 500 000+ sought vaccination, attempts to pass a compulsory vaccination bill through the NSW Parliament foundered.<br /><br />https://www.regionalsecurity.org.au/Resources/Documents/vol4no3Curson.pdfHelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-54298978733678449652018-05-30T10:37:10.923+10:002018-05-30T10:37:10.923+10:00bazza
I suppose some parents will take their chil...bazza<br /><br />I suppose some parents will take their children into hiding if vaccinations are made compulsory. But the Health Dept would then have to check every child starting kindergarten and primary school to ensure that unvaccinated children are not allowed to enter any place where healthy children gather. The Australian Child Health study of 2017 found most Australian children (95%) were fully vaccinated but I would not have wanted my children to be mingling with the other 5% at school or in the playgrounds.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-29549609075676427112018-05-29T21:01:31.608+10:002018-05-29T21:01:31.608+10:00Medical researchers and practitioners were totally...Medical researchers and practitioners were totally devoted to improving community health. Naturally there were mistakes made but the end goal was never lost. Josephnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-85905647706005151372018-05-29T20:07:36.434+10:002018-05-29T20:07:36.434+10:00Anti vaccine. Anti fluoride. I have no time for an...Anti vaccine. Anti fluoride. I have no time for any of them, and while science can get things wrong, and certainly the British Medical Journal or Lancet were wrong when they published the findings of the charlatan Wakefield, I put my trust in medical science.<br /><br />Was it Jenner who noticed that milkmaids, the milkers of cows were resistant to smallpox?<br /><br />It was very brave of the government of 1853 to order all children to be vaccinated and such a shame the penalties were removed, but in Australia, they are back. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-4681946531683713662018-05-29T19:54:37.924+10:002018-05-29T19:54:37.924+10:00The level of resistance and opposition to the MMR ...The level of resistance and opposition to the MMR vaccine is still very prevalent today, sadly. It has long been the case that we fear what we don't understand and the health of our children is an emotional issue so it is perhaps understandable. However, the efficacy has been proved beyond any doubt. The need for compulsory vaccine is a result of the resistance to parents.<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s less-frequent Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.com