VACCINE CONTROVERSY
Credit The Granger Collection / Universal Images Group Rights Managed / For Education Use Only The history of Immunology largely involves the discovery of vaccines. Vaccines have undoubtedly saved millions of lives over the decades they have been used. However vaccines are not without controversy. Many people think that there is link between vaccines and autism. I have an acquaintance who is a scientist who says it happened to his child. There are some families that do not get vaccinated. There is some evidence that vaccines have caused the disease they are trying to prevent as in the recent case of polio vaccines..this is called VDPV..vaccine derived polioviruses. There are consequences to not being vaccinated also. In 2010 there was an outbreak of whooping cough, 10 babies in the Los Angeles area died! Polio has raised its ugly head again in Africa when officials thought it might be eradicated. What should be our r...