coolgran I am definitely very pro vaccine myself. I find it sad when people label the whole of science as untrustworthy. Of course it is not perfect but it is a darn sight better than what my great grandmother had available.
Only this afternoon I have been to visit a friend who is having his life saved (hopefully) by science. One day he was feeling a bit tired, he had a blood test and then was summoned into hospital when someone in a laboratory looked at the results and raised the alarm.
I don't think it is a bit cool to choose not to vaccinate or to pour scorn on the whole of medical science. Whooping cough, for instance, is a very dangerous disease in newborns and is on the rise - hence the recommendation that pregnant women should have a booster shot. Rubella in pregnant women is known to cause serious damage to her foetus - only solution is vaccination. The measles epidemic in South Wales contributed to the death of one young man and hospitalised many children - all down to people thinking they somehow know better than their GPs, who, you may depend, get their kids vaccinated.
Exactly feetle there is not a shred of evidence that vaccines cause autism, not one shred, and the doctor who put this idea into the public domain on the basis of his person hunch has been struck off.