From Mindy Duggan's blog, as seen on The Vaccine Machine's facebook page about herd immunity:
Herd immunity was a term coined in the early 1930's by a researcher named A.W. Hendrich. The term was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 1933. Hedrich found that when 68% of children under the age of 15 had been infected with measles, therefore becoming immune, new cases of measles suddenly became sparse. Raging epidemics came to a halt. This was a huge breakthrough. The difference between herd immunity then and "herd immunity" now is that the term was originally intended to describe the natural immunity a population has after X percentage of the population is exposed to the natural disease, in its natural environment. This has absolutely nothing to do with vaccines. We have seen this type of herd immunity before, on every continent on earth. Herd immunity is a real, sure thing, but only with the NATURAL disease.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
why do we always have to celebrate with food??
After going into a sugar coma on my daughters' leftover Easter candy (and there is always too much left over), I posted a rant about it on facebook. It resonated with a few friends, who mused: why do we always have to celebrate every holiday and get together with food?! Here was my brief response:
We are a nation consumed with consumption, both culinary and material. We spend the most on health care and are the least healthy of industrialized nations. Just today, I read that, out of 35 modern nations, Mexico has the highest death rates from sugary soda consumption, and we are THIRD! I blame it on the Bermuda triangle of marketing, Big Pharma getting profiteering from sickness and disease, and our government's conflicting interest relationships with for-profit industries. Meanwhile, we are killing ourselves with chronic conditions like obesity, diabesity, heart disease, and pharmaceutical drug interactions, which recently replaced automobile accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in the United States.
It's my soapbox. I religiously read Dr. Joseph Mercola's website, which has changed my life, and I hope it will change others' as well.
We are a nation consumed with consumption, both culinary and material. We spend the most on health care and are the least healthy of industrialized nations. Just today, I read that, out of 35 modern nations, Mexico has the highest death rates from sugary soda consumption, and we are THIRD! I blame it on the Bermuda triangle of marketing, Big Pharma getting profiteering from sickness and disease, and our government's conflicting interest relationships with for-profit industries. Meanwhile, we are killing ourselves with chronic conditions like obesity, diabesity, heart disease, and pharmaceutical drug interactions, which recently replaced automobile accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in the United States.
It's my soapbox. I religiously read Dr. Joseph Mercola's website, which has changed my life, and I hope it will change others' as well.
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