Sabin s vaccine did not cause the paralysis of the central nervous system in animal studies and was considered to produce a longer acting immunity versus the injectable type. As with other vaccines, both have their advantages and disadvantages. In order to present a defense as to whether vaccination should be advocated, informative aspects of vaccines must be considered. Therefore, the advantages, concerns and disadvantages will be discussed. Concerns and disadvantages will be addressed first.
Literature reports that vaccines have failed, been misreported, and have sometimes killed or maimed.
In 1998, the American Medical Association presented such a case with the report that measles is increasingly becoming a disease of adults. This is an admittance that the demographics of this typically childhood disease are shifting to adults as the vaccines wear off too early. Recently, the failure of manufacturers to do sufficient research before releasing a product became evident when the Federal Drug Association removed the Rotovirus vaccine almost one year from the day it was released. This vaccine protected children against the leading cause of childhood diarrhea, but resulted in a dangerous bowel obstruction in infants. There were at least 99 reports of bowel obstruction that could be linked to the vaccine.