Originally Posted by suzy_q2010

I have read it. That's the one that I noted has recommendations that would essentially prevent any input from anyone with expertise in vaccines from participating in discussions concerning vaccines. Congressmen are not the ones who should be practicing medicine.

Your approach to conflict of interest is the same as that of Dreger, discussed here:

Conflicts of interest among vaccine advocates: The Law of Contagion – Respectful Insolence

"Dreger goes beyond

Originally Posted by markg91359

State governments and the federal government do not have general vaccination laws.

However, your point apparently is that they lack the power to compel vaccination. You could not be more mistaken.

The Supreme Court decided Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 US 11 (1905) and Zucht v. King, 260 US 174 (1922). The two cases make it clear that state governments could mandate compulsory vaccination for their citizens under the police powers they possess to regulate the health,

Originally Posted by markg91359

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Because vaccines are generally a unique form of medication aimed at preventing the transmission of infectious disease through a large population or the general population. Medicines are intended to treat individual cases of disease which have already appeared.

It is recognized that vaccines are intended for widespread use and that is why vaccines not only must obtain approval from the FDA, but to be placed on the recommended vaccination schedule, must also receive

Originally Posted by suzy_q2010

All of those vaccines contain weakened versions of the wild viruses.

Measles and mumps vaccines do not have shedding at all. Rubella sheds too little to infect others.

vaccine-shedding - The Immunization Partnership

Chickenpox vaccine:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pi...l#transmission

"Available data suggest that transmission of varicella vaccine virus is a rare event. Instances of suspected secondary transmission

Originally Posted by Katarina Witt

Here's someone from a first world country who wasn't so lucky: Measles teen dies in Lisbon | Portugal Resident
"The first fatality as a result of the measles epidemic now taking hold in Portugal was announced this morning by RTP news.

The 17-year-old girl had been fighting for life in Lisbon’s Dona Estefânia hospital since the weekend, suffering from bilateral pneumonia.
. . .
It was not immediately explained whether the teen was one of the several people