Immortal Technique
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Airing Date Oct.25, 2011
Fox News: Should We Vaccinate Kids For Bio Terror Attack?
Those poor military men and women :C
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Can't find US deaths/year from anthrax, but there's reportedly an average of one confirmed infection per year, 20-60% lethality rate untreated, 1% mortality rate when treated with antibiotics (not enough statistics to determine accurately for all types of anthrax infection). Let's call it a 60% mortality rate and average it.
.6 people die in the US from anthrax per year. .0004% of anthrax vaccines result in death or serious complications (hospitalization, long-term disability) according to very poor statistics which have to be reported to an obscure agency. But, if we were to use these statistics, anthrax vaccines would cause, very roughly, 120k deaths (or hospitalization, serious long-term disability) per year if the USG vaccinated every legal citizen in the US.
I think your math is very wrong. 300 million people times .0004% (or 300,000,000 x .000004) would be twelve, not 120,000, people "resulting in death or serious complications" from the anthrax vaccination using those figures. And that assumes you vaccinated the entire population in one year. The following year you would only need to vaccinate new arrivals (immigrants or those born) so the number "every year" would be even smaller.
I do agree that the idea of the whole thing is silly though given the risk of even getting exposed to anthrax- either from "bioterrorism" or other sources- is also incredibly small.
Either way the odds of getting harmed- by the vaccine or a bio attack- are incredibly tiny.
Pretty sure any mandatory vaccination is up to a state by state decision to attend public school. The federal government should have no involvement in this.
Of course, then we have stuff like smallpox, which has been gone for decades - oops! Except for the cases CAUSED BY THE VACCINE!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/05/18/us-smallpox-boy-idUSN1744524120070518
I'm with the government...and I'm here to help!
O dear god you do realize this was the result of the father being negligent right? Smallpox vaccination is just localized small pox (hence why you are not suppose to touch tot let it be touched ). That being said they tried to vaccinate me while i was in the army and it never took. Must have got poke at least a dozen time. Natural immunity for the win ! lol