> such as chicken pox, once caused epidemics with massive body counts
Never happened. Almost nobody ever died of chicken pox. Fear mongering like this is exactly why nobody trusts the CDC and FDA. It's all quackery.
Never happened. Almost nobody ever died of chicken pox. Fear mongering like this is exactly why nobody trusts the CDC and FDA. It's all quackery.
Chicken pox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which can certainly be fatal if contracted as an adult (i.e shingles) and never been exposed to it as a child. _Now_, most people are exposed to it when they're children, when it's much less serious, but vaccination is still the preferred method because it can still be deadly in children in certain cases.
FYI, ~6.4K people still die every year to chicken pox and shingles. It may seem comparatively small, but that's still people who die. Before a vaccine was created, it was around 4x that.
Vaccination has empirically been shown to reduce the number of major hospitalizations and deaths as a result of the virus. It's an injustice to undermine _any_ number of lives potentially saved or thousands in hospital bills avoided because you believe science is "quackery".
Worldwide? That's a lifetime risk of 1 in 10,000 per person.
https://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/vaccine-infographic.html
Before vaccination, chickenpox killed 100 people in USA per year.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957993/
> In the years before English settlers established the Plymouth colony (1616–1619), most Native Americans living on the southeastern coast of present-day Massachusetts died from a mysterious disease. Classic explanations have included yellow fever, smallpox, and plague. Chickenpox and trichinosis are among more recent proposals. We suggest an additional candidate: leptospirosis complicated by Weil syndrome.
It isn't "quackery" just because you don't like it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957993/
(edit: 'javagram got there first!)
Do you believe beloch speaks for the CDC and FDA?