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30-04-2009, 04:47 PM
A video piece from Australian "current affairs" show Sunday Night
Video Link (http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/video/)
It's the one titled "A Mother's Choice?". Unfortunately no way to link directly to it.
"Is it time to force parents to vaccinate their children? The debate has now turned deadly."
Nice timing with this one. Plenty of scaremongering about vaccination, they offer a woman the chance to plead the case for natural remedies and asking people to investigate for themselves, but she's basically there as a token effort - a balanced report this is not. At one point the reporter states that if everyone who is capable of being immunized was, then there would be no killer diseases at all.
And oh my god - check this gem out at 6:23 onwards.....
Interviewer: Professor, is there a chance Polio could return?
Prof: Yes, it's possible there could be a Polio outbreak, and we saw an example of that in a religious community in the Netherlands where...noone immunized their children and Polio..PAUSES....was IMPORTED into that community and a large number of cases occured...
There was a poll on the site though, 75% of people currently don't believe that vaccination should be compulsory. So some good news.
Video Link (http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/video/)
It's the one titled "A Mother's Choice?". Unfortunately no way to link directly to it.
"Is it time to force parents to vaccinate their children? The debate has now turned deadly."
Nice timing with this one. Plenty of scaremongering about vaccination, they offer a woman the chance to plead the case for natural remedies and asking people to investigate for themselves, but she's basically there as a token effort - a balanced report this is not. At one point the reporter states that if everyone who is capable of being immunized was, then there would be no killer diseases at all.
And oh my god - check this gem out at 6:23 onwards.....
Interviewer: Professor, is there a chance Polio could return?
Prof: Yes, it's possible there could be a Polio outbreak, and we saw an example of that in a religious community in the Netherlands where...noone immunized their children and Polio..PAUSES....was IMPORTED into that community and a large number of cases occured...
There was a poll on the site though, 75% of people currently don't believe that vaccination should be compulsory. So some good news.