vaccine-to give or not to give.
Dr. Scott Sokol is a pediatrician practicing in Hicksville, NY. Dr. Sokol is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Sokol diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young... more
there has been growing a movement to question the need for routine vaccination
especially in children. this movement is based on scare tactics that falsely posit
the overall side effects of routine vaccines. so, let us examine the example of one such
vaccine, that of routine immunization of measles. when routine immunization for measles
was accomplished to a high percentage, disease cases were essentially gone from the
general population. statistics revealed a population percentage of immunity that was equal to or more than 95%. this meant that those who did not have this augmented
immunity were still not at risk because of exposure to the highly immunized population percentage. recent results of studies of the current state of immunization percentage
in some states found the percentage of immunity had dropped to about 90%. thus this percentage meant that under the right circumstances exposure to rubeola meant the
return of clinical cases. as of recent days, for example there have now been at least 12
cases of measles documented in the state of Florida, not surprising considering the highly known contagion factor of measles. this is significant since a clinical case of
measles is medically complicated especially in young children. it seems that this new
phenomenon of vaccine paranoia does not take into account the complex nature of
many diseases such as measles that is hopefully clinically benign but certainly not
always. this type of vaccine necessity denial that once posited false claims of cases
of autism due to vaccination have not ceased the ongoing vaccine paranoia.
anyone in the field of medicine knows that vaccine elimination of multiple diseases
was felt to be one of or the most significant medical advances of the past century.
it is disheartening to see how we are going backwards.
