Do childhood vaccinations have side-effects?

AT LAST some parents are waking up to the fact that, like every other drug, vaccines have side-effects (Mail). They can damage immunity and the gut, so can be a significant cause of illness. The rise in such ‘mystery’ illnesses as myalgic encephalomyelitis, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome and lupus, plus cases of eczema, psoriasis, asthma and some allergies, is coincident with the increase in vaccinations. Despite warnings from medical experts, nothing is being done about this. It was one of the biggest cons of the 20th century. Drug companies and doctors make huge profits from peddling the vaccination myth. It is the parents who blindly follow the standard advice to vaccinate their children and are putting them at risk, not those who choose not to.

Ms A. MURFITT, St. Austell, Cornwall. No One should be bullied into vaccinating their children (Mail). If something goes wrong, they are the ones who have to live with the consequences. two of my cousins were fine until their injections at around a year old, when everything went downhill. they ended up unable to communicate or walk and now, 30 years on, they are still like newborn babies. they had another sibling who had no injections, to the horror of some people, and that child is perfectly well.

Mrs THOMAS, Mansfield, Notts.

THE EU has banned barometers which contain mercury, but drug companies are allowed to sell vaccines which contain it, albeit in small amounts in the preservative thiomersal, to prevent bacterial and fungal growth. Why is it safer to inject mercury into people — though it is not in any vaccine for babies and young children — than it is to have it in a barometer on the wall? NINA WEST, Cornwall.