[PeterM]

I too think the articles were rather harmless, thanks for alerting us to them. But the thread title was not in sync with the content. Even after Nesti's explanation which came later. The natural medicine believers use these sort of things as a little more "proof" to the quacked out belief that big drug companies etc are not telling us the truth, that sticking needles into our babies is painful, not necessary and does more harm than good. And a little nonsense soon becomes a lot and if it is not nipped in the bud...

How easy we forget (polio as an example). There is no questioning the overwhelming reason that our kids now enjoy such a high standard of health in this country is because most of the population have already been immunised.
We have got to where we are today at a terrible great cost from those dark ages. This must be defended very, very hard indeed, to the point it will really upset some. Well so be it.

I sort of live the otherside of the coin and you really don't want to be there. My 22 year old son has cerebral palsy, spastic quadraplegia, severley disabled, courtesy of a piddly little virus called Cytomegalovirus (CMV) contracted in the first trimester of pregnancy. No vaccine available then or yet, but has been worked on for years and one day it too will be defeated, not by natural medicines but through ongoing research. If it had been something preventable through vaccination, that through my ignorance I had not given our son, who knows how I would be right now.

PeterM.