Japan’s Backward Vaccination Policy

[angelatc]

The government stopped recommending vaccines to save money, and the results are entirely predictable.

The number of people infected by measles in Japan has already exceeded 100 this year and the total appears to be rising. Those born between 1977 and 1990 have been vaccinated against measles just once. Experts in infectious diseases say that at least two vaccinations are needed to attain immunity. That generation has been hit the hardest by measles this time.

Unless the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry overhauls its vaccination policy, measles is likely to become an epidemic at certain intervals.

Since measles began spreading in various parts of the country this year, many people have rushed to clinics to receive shots even outside the scope of public health insurance coverage, and a medical practitioner in Tokyo has complained that the supply of the vaccine ran out.

Japan has two types of vaccination programs: vaccinations regularly carried out by municipalities and voluntary vaccinations. Although the fees for the regular vaccinations are covered by public funds, the types of vaccinations under this program are limited.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion...nation-policy/

[Swordsmyth]

The government stopped recommending vaccines to save money, and the results are entirely predictable.








https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion...nation-policy/

There wouldn't be a problem if they hadn't pushed a needless vaccine that does more harm than good and eliminated natural measles immunity/resistance, now there will be a period of trouble before nature rectifies things.

[dannno]

Or maybe if people didn't put a microscope on specific problems and looked at the bigger picture..


Anti-Vaccine Japan Has World’s Lowest Child Death Rate & Highest Life Expectancy

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ife-Expectancy

[angelatc]

There wouldn't be a problem if they hadn't pushed a needless vaccine that does more harm than good and eliminated natural measles immunity/resistance, now there will be a period of trouble before nature rectifies things.

That's ridiculous. Thousands of children died every year from measles, and there's absolutely no evidence that there are different types of immunity based on how the disease is encountered.

Jesus $#@!ing Christ - where do you clowns get this crap from?

[angelatc]

Or maybe if people didn't put a microscope on specific problems and looked at the bigger picture..


Anti-Vaccine Japan Has World’s Lowest Child Death Rate & Highest Life Expectancy

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ife-Expectancy

There are zero facts in that bull$#@! article she posted. Yes, Japan has the world's lowest infant mortality rate but there is absolutely no evidence that less vaccines equates to living longer.

It's just the opposite, in fact. Using her "logic," children in developing nations should live longer than us first-worlders because they don't get any vaccines. ANd yet, they die of diseases we rarely see because MOST of us are smart enough to get out children $#@!ing vaccinated.


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[dannno]

Using her "logic," children in developing nations should live longer than us first-worlders because they don't get any vaccines.
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That's not true, that would introduce other factors that are difficult to account for precisely.

[Swordsmyth]

That's ridiculous. Thousands of children died every year from measles,

Not in developed countries with good nutrition.

and there's absolutely no evidence that there are different types of immunity based on how the disease is encountered.

Yes there is and it's been posted in other threads

[Schifference]

I think the rhetoric about whether something is good for you or bad for you depends on who is paying for it.

Recently Statins have been in the news and supposedly they do more harm than good. Don't you know the number 2 drug sold is Crestor a statin. When everyone was working and had insurance, statins were pushed as a take this to cure your high cholesterol or die. Now that people are aging and many are on medicare and or medicaid, all of a sudden we don't need this drug any longer.

Vaccines that are proven to have eradicated a deadly disease would seem wise to get. Vaccines for the flu, pneumonia I would shy away from.