Beware the cure that’s worse than the disease

Regarding Oct. 10 letter: “Skip flu gossip; get the facts”:

The opinion writer would benefit by some research. Start with the vaccine-generated polio epidemic of the 1950s, the cancer-causing SV40 contaminated vaccines of the 1960s, and the swine flu vaccine-generated Guillian Barre and paraplegic victims of the 1970s.

Move to the more recent gulf war syndrome tied to the Squalene component in the anthrax vaccine (detailed in congressional hearings and court cases from 1993 through 2008), the tetanus vaccines given to women of childbearing-age “accidentally” contaminated with sterilization-causing foreign-Human-Chorionic-Gonadotrophin hormone of the 1990s (detailed on the 1995 BBC special report “The Human Laboratory”), and the nightmare of 772 reported adverse events including 32 deaths with the Gardasil vaccines of the past three years.

Finish with the U.S. autism rate going from 1 in 10,000 in the early 1980s to one in 100 as of last week's news, over the same period that mercury-containing thimerosal childhood and pregnant women vaccine shots increased over 10-fold.

Indeed, there is as much or more documented evidence of vaccine-generated maladies than there is evidence of vaccine benefit.

That may explain why 58 percent of health care workers nationwide fail to comply with taking recommended vaccines each year (per the CDC), matching almost exactly the 60 percent of the “misinformed and downright conspiratorial” people of Cedar Rapids who have made the same decision. Beware the cure that's worse than the disease.

Jeff A. Shander

Solon