Looking for information to write the two entries about vaccines offered yesterday and the day before yesterday I wanted to enter the website of the league for the freedom of vaccination, which I had never entered and in which I hoped to find a page loaded with information and news, both for and against vaccines, offering all possible data so that parents, knowing all the information, make a decision, as they say, free.
He hoped to find news about recent measles outbreaks, about the death of the young Andalusian and about what happened in France, just as he hoped to find news and data about autism, mercury, papilloma and other topics often mentioned by They do not agree with vaccines.
I hoped to find all this because when a league called “for freedom of vaccination” is created, I understand that what it intends is to be a reliable and crystalline source of information, with all the pros and cons of vaccinating children to solve, precisely, what they criticize, the theoretical lies and the manipulation of those people who advocate vaccinating all possible citizens.
My surprise came when I didn't see one (damn) news about measles nor any mention of the buds that are appearing.
Just news about side effects, isolated cases of reactions, reasons not to get a flu shot, etc. I'm sorry, but for me this is not promoting free vaccination, but promoting non-vaccination by offering partial information. It makes no sense to complain that all of us who vaccinate our children live deceived if they later deceive by not giving all possible data..
Yes I could see in a corner of the page a link to a report in which they talk about measles, entitled "Measles Report", which gave me some illusion to see it (because I thought "ah, look, misunderstood, here they put everything" ), but that showed me to have nothing to do with what I expected to find and that also dates from December last year.
This is a report that tries to reassure families who have not been vaccinated about measles by interpreting graphs and data, a bit as they please (because the graph shown shows that vaccination has been effective in controlling the disease) , and focusing a lot on measles deaths (which we said yesterday that there are few in the first world) and much also discrediting the vaccine.
If you look at the table, the vaccine began to be put in the early 80's. As we are told, with the vaccine not only did the incidence not decrease, but it increased, and that is observed in two large high peaks. That said it seems to be true, however, as Carlos González says in his book "In defense of vaccines", and as sure that everyone observes, the final tendency is to reach almost "0" morbidity, when before the vaccine only produced oscillations that maintained the disease in an average of about 8,000 cases reported annually.
The spikes, which the anti-vaccines are intended to show as a side effect of the vaccine, cannot be such, because at the time the measles vaccine is introduced, children at a certain age begin to be vaccinated, but not all children are vaccinated from the country at once. In fact, Vaccine coverage when the first peak occurs is close to 50%, when the second peak occurs, it is 80% (the more vaccine there should be more morbidity, if we believe what the vaccines say) and said coverage continues to rise as morbidity falls and falls.
So, why are the peaks? Well, surely at the beginning of the vaccination campaign an information campaign was also started for health professionals: the measles vaccine appears, we will protect children from this disease, when you see a case you have to declare it, etc. Probably many of the doctors who were not declaring the disease because "I don't usually do it", "I see so many children that I forget" or "I don't think it's important to do it", they began to declare all the cases that went through the consultation and hence the two raised peaks.
In any case, as I say, it is clear that the disease began to be controlled as a result of vaccination, so if my anger when seeing the data of emerging diseases was already capitalized, imagine what levels it reaches if I see a “report measles ”that tries to reassure families that do not vaccinate and that says "It is also evident that there is not a single vision or a single way of understanding and interpreting things, whether it is the way of understanding the disease or the way of interpreting epidemiological data", which is a way of saying yes, that the graph is clear, but we interpret it as we want to extract arguments that benefit us.
Just in case the page suffers from lack of updating I have decided to enter the forums, since users are usually more active than users. webmasters and my second surprise is that It is a very minority forum, with hardly any participation, that speaks very little about measles outbreaks and that the little they speak has neither feet nor head.
If before I was clear that my children should be vaccinated, after entering the website that should convince me not to do so, I am still more clear that I want to vaccinate my children and that all children should get vaccinated for vaccines offered by the state.
