For those who doubt

Those few who might be swayed by recent stories about linkages between vaccines and autism should look at the report that Hib meningitis has been virtually eliminated in young children in Uganda just five years after the country introduced Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine nationwide, according to an independent study. Each year, Hib kills approximately 400,000 children under five years of age, most of them in the developing world. It is also responsible for approximately three million cases of serious illnesses resulting in long-term consequences such as deafness, paralysis, mental retardation and learning disabilities. One should be suspect of claims by the 'ME' generation, and their attorneys, that an individual is more important than the population as a whole.