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Home › Articles › Health Issues › A Need for Needles?

A Need for Needles?

Part Two

By Carma Haley

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In addition to receiving multiple injections, Fisher states there are other factors that should be addressed which can be correlated to various immunization related injuries and deaths. "In the early 1980s, we were not routinely vaccinating sick kids," says Fisher. "It wasn't until the late 1980s -- after the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was passed in 1986, which aided in removing liability from the vaccination manufacturers and the doctors giving vaccines -- that all of the sudden the contraindications to vaccinations became much narrower. In the last two decades at least 50 to 70 percent of the vaccine injuries would have been avoided if two things would be done: don't vaccinate sick kids, wait until they're healthy; and do not vaccinate kids who have had serious health problems or reactions to previous vaccinations."

With all the correlation between vaccinations and medical complications in children, medial providers and health care workers often dismiss the idea that the immunizations may play a part. As these professionals are trained to "cure" and prevent illness, ideals of causing injury when attempting to protect a child are shunned.

"What has happened is that there has been this idealized picture or view of vaccinations that has not been realistic," says Fisher. "When children have significant problems after vaccination, doctors -- because they have not been willing to deal with the side effects -- write those health problems off as not being connected to the vaccines. It is human nature for a doctor or health care provider -- particularly a pediatrician because he works with children and wants to keep them well -- to be reluctant to admit that a procedure performed to keep a child well could have harmed the child."


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