Immunisation Debate - both sides

MOH Immunisation Home Page

Immunisation Advisory Centre

Immunisation Awareness Society

I find all these ones interesting reading. I like the IAC one though as you can also access the health professionals site.

I did most of my research from primary and secondary sources while I had access to the university databases (was doing my law degree but that didnt stop me thinking haha)

For a very anti vaccination view that is backed up by government data then here

Also there is a good summary of vaccines in NZ and pros and againsts in A guide to child health by Michaela Glocker, Wolfgang Goebel, et al.

And the ministry of health has good raw data that you can draw your own conclusions from. (If you can find it, it can be hard to track down in their website maze)

Good luck - it's a big decision.

Jazzy - the debate is raging in another thread over vaccination - I think what surfergirl is looking for are resources, not opinions. Jeez that sounded harsh, I didnt mean it badly, just that I don't want to see a request for resources turn into a secondary debate when there is one already running hot

Hilary Butler has written some very informative books on the subject. It is NZ based as well. She will send them to you at no cost (not even postage) Might want to make a small donation though if you find them useful.
http://www.beyondconformity.co.nz/books

Also you can request information and statistics from the MOH. If you state that this is an official information request they have to reply within twenty days.

You can also find quite abit of info at forums.beyondvaccination.com

Hope this helps :)

Edited by Kellie

Google scholar can also be quite informative http://scholar.google.com

The government information is normally really good but you just have to kind of read between the lines a bit, so ignore the pic of the sick kids and the "protect your child" type slogans and just read the actual information. And also look at it really in depth, sometimes they switch between real numbers and percentages which can make things seem worse than they are. 90% of those affected will be hospitalised, sounds bad but if only 10 people catch it then 90% isn't really that bad but sounds more scary than 9 people hospitalised. Also look at the small print as hospitalised, admitted to hospital, serious cases etc are normally clarified in the small print and often the criteria isn't as bad as it first sounds.

There are a couple of books that IAS recommend (peanut has put a link to their website). I read an awesome book but I can't for the live of me remember the name, wish I could cos I would quite like to buy my own copy. We got a lot of info off of a doctor who my Dh knows who use to do research type work in Europe and then changed sides and became a homeopathic doc.

You can also ask your GP for some info and depending on your doc you might get an unbiased opinion but do just bear in mind that they get paid for each vaccination and I also think (but not 100% sure on this) that they are not allowed to bag the vaccination programme and also they are not always that up to date with things, they need to know a lot to do their jobs and vaccines are only one small area of it.

Searching the actual diseases is always a good thing to do as well, 1 it tells you what the diseases are all about and 2 the information is often separate from the vaccination debate so you get less biased info presented (normally there is at least one sentence mentioning vaccinations being available but it's not normally the main agenda of the info).

This is the world health organisation page for NZ you can look up every country, Check out the united states, they have very high vaccine levels (and a - means they have no data, not no cases, there is a 0 if no reported cases). You should have a look at Japan as well!

http://www.who.int/immunization_monitoring/en/globalsummary/countryprofileresult.cfm?C='nzl'

This site can be a bit out there but I like the graphs

http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/web1.html

I've been reading up on Immunisations... and have come to the conclusion that.... assuming I am able to Breast feed and that I will have baby at home with me, rather than in a day care environment... I choose not to go through the standard process of immunisations..... however I plan to assess the dieases that my baby is more likely to be at risk from.... and if there is enough evidence to support the dieases vaccination.... thats when I'll go down the path!

I am mostly concerned about vaccinating a baby at such a young age that I do not know baby's health weaknesses.... after all the reading I have done.... I suspect alot of SID's is actually a Vaccination sympton.

Issue 5 of OHbaby! Magazine has an article on both sides of the story, from the perspective of two mums, one pro, one against. You can buy Issue 5 here if you've missed it. :)