WHO names vaccine refusal as one of the top ten threats to humanity

“… As a result, his temperature was about forty for four days, and then his speech deteriorated sharply, – a friend of Ksenia tells me the story of the son of a friend of some mother from their class. “They are one hundred percent sure it is from the vaccine.”

“That is why we don’t get vaccinated at all,” another friend of ours says. – It’s all a conspiracy of pharmaceutical companies. They make money on our children. “

Of my ten acquaintances, perhaps one in four is opposed to vaccination. Someone does not vaccinate a child in principle, someone does not trust pharmacists, considering all calls for vaccinations to be a medical conspiracy. And someone does believe that polio, measles or scarlet fever simply have nowhere to catch.

“If everyone is vaccinated, where will my child get the infection?” – my brother says with full confidence that he is right – he has two daughters, both are growing up without vaccinations. It is impossible to explain to him what herd immunity is and that the polio virus may well live in the water they pump from the well.

And if you think that this is only a Russian problem, you are mistaken. Vaccine refusal has become such a global global scale that the World Health Organization for the first time included this phenomenon in the list of the ten main threats to humanity. Along with air pollution, influenza pandemic and antibiotic resistance. Imagine, since the beginning of the century, the number of unvaccinated children under the age of three has increased four (!) Times.

In Russia, the incidence of measles has doubled. We have more and more anti-vaccines

Due to the general refusal of vaccinations, doctors now have to deal with outbreaks of diseases that, it would seem, have long been practically eradicated. Doctors have not met with them for so long that they cannot even diagnose them every time: well, a relic, the Middle Ages. Measles is of particular concern. Its incidence worldwide has increased by thirty percent. There are thousands of deaths. But people are in no hurry to get vaccinated, even on the threshold of an epidemic. For different reasons. For example, it is believed that vaccinations overload the child’s immune system and it is better to acquire immunity naturally, including having recovered from infectious diseases. There are also those who are waiting for the three-component imported vaccine Priorix to return to the Russian market. ”But it is not yet available and deliveries are not expected in the near future.

“The reluctance or complete refusal to vaccinate, despite the availability of vaccines, threatens to undo progress made in the fight against vaccine-preventable diseases,” says Research… “Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective ways to avoid disease — now it prevents 2-3 million deaths a year. And another 1,5 million could have been avoided. “

“I would not say that vaccinations cause serious autoimmune diseases,” says pediatrician Svetlana Ivanova. – Yes, they can trigger some mechanisms that were dormant until that moment. But – it is important to emphasize – they already existed. They could be “woken up” by a vaccination, or – after a few years – some serious viral infection, or even ordinary helminths. In addition, there are so-called intercurrent infections, that is, they joined by accident. For example, a child was vaccinated against polio, and a week later he contracted chickenpox. There is no direct connection between the two events.

Yes, there are complications. But they can be avoided if vaccinations are done correctly: after consultation with an immunologist, blood and urine tests. For a child with neurological diagnoses, a neurologist should give admission to the vaccine. You cannot be vaccinated if the child has a cold, as well as 2-4 weeks after the illness. And if you have already done, do not visit crowded places for a while. I advise children prone to allergies to take antihistamines for 3-4 days before and after vaccination.