Ever since the world wide scare over vaccines, vaccination rates have dropped in in North America and Europe. As a result, vaccine prevented illness has increased accordingly. This is something that we track and monitor and establish correlations. It's not a conspiracy that cases of mumps, measles, whooping cough, are suddenly going up, especially in non vaccinated communities.
Remember last years big health issues with the Mumps epidemic? Well, after it was over and you look at the epi data, the areas that are largely vaccinated fared much better than the non vaccinated communities. Now these non vaccination communities are just the same as us. They have proper drinking water, sanitation facilities, modern conveniences, yet they have a much higher rate in vaccine preventative diseases?
Also, for those that believe vaccines are a crock, what would you do if you were bitten by a bat? There was a case last year where a man died from Rabies. The only known treatment for rabies is to take the rabies shot, which is essentially a rabies vaccine. The theory is that your body immune system learns to deal with the weaken virus from the vaccine, before the real virus works it's way up from your nerves and into your CNS.
While I agree that pharmaceutical companies don't have the best reputation (and some of them deservingly), even if they were all in it for the profit only, the sheer amount of money that could be made if a cure for HIV, Cancer, and all the other serious diseases we are trying to cure was discovered would be tremendous. With US drug patent laws, that company could have a 10 year exclusive patent on that drug, before a generic brand could be made instead. Much more than just continuing treatments
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