Vaccinations

There has been somewhat of a controversy over vaccines in recent years. Everyone knows that vaccines work to protect people from disease, but in some cases, the opposite can occur. There have been some studies that suggest that childhood vaccination can cause autism, but these reports have been proven to be inaccurate. For many years now there have been activist groups promoting the idea that autism can be caused by vaccination. Many children have gone un-immunized because of these groups. Recently, a study involving 2 million children was done finally disproving the notion that vaccination can cause autism (http://www.mlive.com/opinion/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/02/editorial_retraction_should_re.html).There are some safety issues to consider before getting immunized. If you have an allergy to eggs, it is possible you could have a reaction to the flu vaccine because it is grown on an egg culture (http://www.acaai.org/public/advice/Fluvaccine_eggallergy.htm). However, if you do not have an allergy to vaccinations then there is no reason to refuse immunization. Vaccines are beneficial to people and on the whole, they have no adverse effects.