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Old 08-Jul-2004, 05:53 PM
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Default Re: Mass Meningitis Vaccination Program

I am in two minds about this one.
On one hand we should do everything possible to try and eliminate as many risks as possible with this disease.
However, there is talk that some vacinations, especially the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella), can be too much for some people's immune systems and that some cases of Cot death and Autism may be the result of sever reactions.

And as much as this is in the news at the moment with the child having a both lower legs and both lower arms amputated to fight the meningitis, how far could the same money go towards preventing parents from killing their kids. I just wish we had a bottomless pit of money for the health and social welfare systems.

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