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AMONG THE CHALLENGES of adjusting to existing with little or no sleep and having zero time to yourself comes an equally difficult challenge for new parents – watching as their little one’s chubby arm or leg is met with syringes for vaccines during their first year.
Vaccines in your child’s first year – and later in life - can protect them against dangerous diseases such as tuberculosis, whooping cough, tetanus, polio and diphtheria. However some parents still hold concerns over the safety of certain vaccinations, in particular the HPV vaccine among school-age girls.
Earlier in the week, the Irish Medical Journal released findings that disadvantaged schools tend to have the lowest uptake rate for HPV vaccines. The study took into consideration social deprivation, religious ethos and co-educational status, but could not account for some factors such as ethnicity.
Minister for Health Simon Harris has said that claims the HPV vaccine caused 400 Irish girls to fall ill were “false” and “unfounded”.
Over 200,000 girls in Ireland have safely received the vaccine, joining 100 million people worldwide who have been vaccinated against the virus.
So, tell us, would you prevent your child from being vaccinated?
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Those who don’t vaccinate your children and state that you do not rely on heard immunity. You do. Those diseases would still be around if everyone else didn’t vaccinate. Also please remember your child is a risk to those who cannot vaccinate or have lowered immunity.
I assume those who have chosen “Yes, if I thought they were in danger” are from those parents whose children cannot receive vaccines due to serious illness. This is a reasonable position.
For HPV, it’s mind-boggling to me that parents are effectively refusing a Cure For Cancer for their children. The amount of work that goes into research , development, clinical trials, bringing a vaccine to the public, which actually prevents cancer… And they chuck it back in their faces. What the actual fck.
When they prove the existence of these so-called viruses and prove that vaccines do no harm and actually work then prove the long unproven germ theory we could have a discussion. Until then vaccines are unproven and dangerous.
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