MMR Vaccination - Is it a Friend or Foe?

This is a very emotionally charged debate for obvious reasons and every parent has the right opinion for their child. This is my view for my son. I think it's really important that the immunity level to measles is kept above the critical level to prevent unimmunised children for catching it. At the moment in Wales there is an alarming increase in the number of cases. In healthy school children the chance of any serious complications is rare but possible. However, what about babies? Those that have yet to develop any form of immunity and are too young for vaccination. Severe illness is much more likely in infants under one year. Now ...  Read the complete review

I have had 9 nieces and nephews born, and I am hopefully going to have my own little one on the way soon, and the MMR situation has been a subject which has come up alot in my life. The MMR is the Measels, Mumps and Ruebella Vaccination given to babies at about 18 months old (i'm not 100% sure on this, so correct me if I am wrong!). For years there has been a debate about the safety of the vaccination as people say it can "develop autism" in children, as far as I am aware there is no actual scientific proof that this is the case, and the reason the issue has come about is because children show signs of autism at the age the vaccination ...  Read the complete review

There has been a lot of debate over the mmr vaccine over the last few years as a lot of people have begun to doubt the safety of this after allegations that it is causing autism in children. Before allowing my daughter to have this vaccine i looked into it a lot and thought long and hard about it, i couldnt find any proof any where that stated this vaccine was actually causing autism in children the only link i could find was that the vaccine was being given at the same age as autism became noticable in children so the link had been deduced from this. We decided that there was no reason for us not to go ahead with this vaccine and protect our ...  Read the complete review

In my opinion, the MMR vacine is a friend and not a foe. Why would doctors want to give a child, not a child, a needle that would harm them. Ok, there has been research that this vacine is linked with things like autism, but if that were 100% proven, then they would have stopped giving it out ages ago. Together me and my wife sat down and starting discussions whether or not our children should be given this vacine, along with others, and after much debating, we decided it would be for the best. This vacine is given to children in order for them to be able to defned their bodies against three major diseases, Measles, Mumps, and Rubella, three of the most deadliest ...  Read the complete review

I find this subject really frustrating. I can understand why some parents are doubtful of the MMR vaccination, because of all the bad press it has had for such a long time. But all of the research that was done, leading up to the bad press, was recently proved to be false!! It was all made up by the guy who was responsible for producing the single vaccines, and he was trying to push his jabs on the public to make money. The link between the MMR and autism has never been proved. It is a fact that autism is usually first noticed at about the age of one year. Which just so happens to be the age that you have the first MMR jab. It is mearly coincidence that the MMR is blamed ...  Read the complete review