Vaccine Safety: What You Really Need To Know
Submitted by Dr. Gwenn Is In
Vaccines and vaccine safety are clearly the hottest topics in child health today. There’s a great deal of misleading information online and in the press driving a great deal of unnecessary fears. To help address the concern of many parents, the American Academy of Pediatrics has joined forces with many amazing organizations and enlisted the help of Amanda Peet, an actress who made the decision to immunize her children.
The new website, Vaccinate Your Baby, has the lastest studies and factual information on vaccines and vaccine safety all in one place. Click around and you’ll learn some interesting things. For example,
Did you know that the last natural case of polio was in 1979?
How about the fact that small pox has been eradicated as off 1980?
Did you also know that measles was declared no longer endemic in the US but is now on the rise again because people’s fear is causing them to stop immunizing their kids??
You can learn more about the vaccine time table here - it is very interesting.
On the site is everything from information on the diseases to information on the vaccine schedule and vaccine timing.
One of the best parts of this website is a link to other places on line for information so you can see there is a very united voice about the information presented.
My advice, don’t act on fear - act on information. And, immunize your children on time, every time. It is when people try to second guess the experts and “play doctor” that the system falls apart - and our rise in measles cases is a clear indication that people’s good intentions in playing with the vaccine schedule in the name of the health of their children is backfiring.
