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Re: RRS FWD: Dangers of hepatitis B vaccine From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Sun May 23 10:11:05 1999 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: nazemi: "Re: Gen: Gown" Previous message: Barborza@aol.com: "Re: Gown" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: RRS FWD: Dangers of hepatitis B vaccine" Amen, JoeP!! simply reinforces that nothing in life is risk free. like crossing the street with the light is no guarantee that some drunk driver isn't going to run the light with catastrophic results. obviously, these tales of woe shouldn't cloud decision making but should serve as an incentive to produce better vaccines. hmmmmm, i wonder what jenner would have thought had he truly considered the risk-benefit ratio of what he was about to do? Art "Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." Dennis Miller At Sun, 23 May 1999, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > >In a message dated 5/23/99 8:40:37 AM, ND84MD@aol.com writes: > ><< <<Opposition to >> > hepatitis B vaccine mounts >> > Committee hears testimony >> > on alleged side effects>> > >the key word is "alleged". what is with the militant anti-vaccine postings? >> > >Actually it's more than that. > >If you DON'T vaccinate (ANY vaccine), you get a "natural" incidence of >morbidity and mortality. If you DO vaccinate (ANY vaccine) you get a very low >incidence of adverse events, rarely death or brain damage, just as the >natural incidence of allergy and adverse reaction to any drug. So the logic >of that is the trade off of the disease versus the prevention. > >What throws a monkey wrench into all this is parading a brain damaged child >(or the parents of a dead child) in front of Congress and saying "See, look >what this terrible vaccine has done to my child!" Alternately, you could >parade all the names of the 4,000 deaths each year from chronic and acute >liver disease due to Hepatitis B and say "See, look what this terrible >disease has done to us!" > >Take your pick... > >Joe P. -- art fougner, md SonoScan/Genetic Sciences forest hills, ny evsono@pipeline.com Next message: nazemi: "Re: Gen: Gown" Previous message: Barborza@aol.com: "Re: Gown" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: RRS FWD: Dangers of hepatitis B vaccine"

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