A Patriots Manifest May 7 2008
William White
What diseases kill or disable in job lots, have existing vaccines and have at least a rare incidence here in the US? Bubonic Plague, animal small pox that can crossover to human populations, Anthrax and TB. So why isn’t everyone vaccinated against these diseases? Good question. A better question is why is there widespread vaccination against relatively low death and disability rate diseases such as measles , mumps and chicken pox but not major killers such as these?
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And those diseases are real threats. Take for example Bird Flu, the 1918 flu epidemic was bird flu but when digging into the mortality figures for the 1918 epidemic the numbers get squishy. While not a trivial disease in its own right the majority of deaths in the 1918 flu epidemic were caused by secondary and tertiary effects of the epidemic: an overwhelming of the healthcare system; public sanitat ion systems crippled by too many sewer workers and garbage collectors out sick; and farmers facing a shortage of workers to harvest and transport food. The 1918 epidemic was not quite bad enough to set off a bubonic plague in the Western US the biggest plague reservoir in the world.
Those cute little Prairie Dogs and other rodents of the western United States get Bubonic Plague as a childhood disease. How close the US came to a secondary bubonic plague in 1918 is debatable but the plague reservoir has been expanding from San Francisco since the 1880s. Every decade or so the reservoir moves further east, a few cases of plague will be found in a new area and public sanitation will get intensely anal about rodent control over a very wide area including so far unaffected areas. But there are other killer diseases.
TB is becoming more difficult to control with antibiotics and is due for an outbreak. Bird flu, SARS, colds or any other respiratory infection can lead to TB.
So here’s the question, if vaccines are as effective as claimed then why aren’t they use against the real killers? If children west of the Mississippi need to be protected against say rubella then they most certainly need to be protected against plague and TB as probable secondary effects of a breakout disease such as bird flu. For the moment ignore such things as mercury, the two types of anti-freeze and two types of antibiotics found in vaccines. Yeah, vaccination against plague and TB carries risks but the alternative is death or disability well up into double digit percentages if public sanitation fails due to less lethal diseases putting too many sanitation workers in the hospital. If mumps is treated as worth the risk of vaccination but TB is not then something is screwy with public health.
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