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Vaccines
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future. Vaccines can be prophylactic (to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infec
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Science appears calm and triumphant when it is completed; but science in the process of being done is only contradiction and torment, hope and disappointment." － Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French bacteriologist and developer of the first effective treatment for diphtheria
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― The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
― The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
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The association between the post-encephalitic syndrome and demyelination or incomplete myelination of the brain seems quite secure. And the fact that encephalitis -including that caused by vaccination- can cause demyelination has been known since the 1920's!
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― Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain
― Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain
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