Table of contents:
- What are the hoaxes about vaccines that often circulate?
- "Vaccines are not safe and have adverse side effects"
- "Unnatural vaccines"
- "Vaccines cause autism"
- "Vaccines cause asthma or allergies"
- "Infectious diseases are normal, part of growing children"
- "Vaccines contain poisonous preservatives"
Hoaxes about vaccines are circulating in the community. This misleading news has made a number of people choose not to give vaccines to their children. It is important for you to know the facts from circulating hoaxes so that your child remains protected from various diseases.
What are the hoaxes about vaccines that often circulate?
"Vaccines are not safe and have adverse side effects"
Fact: Vaccines are safe to use for humans.
All licensed vaccines are tested many times before being allowed for use in humans. Researchers also always monitor any information obtained about side effects that arise after vaccine administration.
Most of the side effects that arise after vaccine administration are only minor side effects. The suffering experienced by vaccines is heavier than vaccines themselves.
"Unnatural vaccines"
Fact: Vaccines use the natural human response to disease to trigger the human body's defense system. Some people believe that giving vaccines is not natural, and if someone is infected directly with the disease will give a stronger immune system. However, if you prefer to suffer from certain diseases in order to get immunity and not get vaccinated, you will have to accept the more serious consequences.
Diseases like tetanus and meningitis can kill you, while vaccines are well tolerated and have mild side effects. With vaccine protection, you also don't have to suffer from disease to gain immunity while avoiding complications that occur due to disease.
"Vaccines cause autism"
Fact: In 1998 there was a study which said that there was a possible relationship between giving the MMR vaccine with autism, but it turned out that the study was wrong and just a fraud. The research has been drawn from the journal published in 2010.
Unfortunately, this caused panic in the community so that vaccine administration was reduced and an epidemic emerged. There is no scientific evidence to suggest a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
"Vaccines cause asthma or allergies"
Fact: There is no scientific evidence to suggest that vaccines cause or worsen asthma or allergies. In fact, those who suffer from asthma or allergies are advised to get a complete vaccine because diseases such as pertussis and flu can worsen asthma conditions. In some people, allergies can occur to the vaccine, but the risk is very low. The incidence of severe allergies is only 1 in one million vaccines.
"Infectious diseases are normal, part of growing children"
Fact: Diseases that can be prevented by vaccines are mostly serious and deadly, but thanks to vaccines, they are rare. Before vaccination, many people with polio had to breathe with a breathing apparatus, children whose airways were blocked due to diphtheria, or children who had brain damage due to measles infection!
"Vaccines contain poisonous preservatives"
Fact: Each vaccine contains a preservative to prevent the growth of bacteria or fungi. The preservative most often used is thiomersal which contains ethyl mercury. Ethyl mercury itself has no adverse effects on health. Toxic mercury is methyl mercury which has a toxic effect on the human nervous system so it is not used as a preservative.
Ethyl mercury itself has been used as a vaccine preservative for over 80 years and there is no scientific evidence that says that thiomersal containing ethyl mercury is dangerous.
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