“Right......”

“Until they prove otherwise, nobody on the internet has a PhD.”

“Very good although I very much doubt you could successfuly get a PhD solely by using Wilipedia, I might be wrong though.”

“I do have such a lot to answer for, don't I?”

“I presume you are talking about the vaccine Pediacel, although I didn¿t know aluminium had been removed despite some populist movements to make vaccines ¿green¿. In layman¿s terms it looks worrying having aluminium and formaldehyde in a vaccine. However aluminium is a necessary adjuvant. It makes the vaccine more effective so children need less shots. Aluminium is the third most abundant element on Earth and there is more present in your food than in a vaccine. Formaldehyde is a natural product. It is sometimes used as an antimicrobial in vaccine production but it is also produced in our bodies as a by-product of our metabolism, removing it would mean the vaccine would ¿go off¿.
With regard to Falkland's soldiers I am not aware of this one, I am aware of the Gulf war syndrome. This is greatly different from the public as they are being vaccinated against something far more potent, anthrax for one. In addition, the main problem with this was not the injection themselves but the way it was administered with 6 in a day, thisdoes not follow established protocol.
You are correct with regards to the differences in Polio, Smallpox, and flu. I am aware of this, however I was illustrating that vaccines are good. They offer the best form of protection we have to the recipient and help prevent the spread of the virus. I am constantly baffled by the intent by many people on the outskirts of science to paint them as some kind of evil and more so the rhetoric they use. They break down the ingredients within and say how these are harmful, accept in the amounts and form present they aren¿t. There are far more pressing concerns to people¿s health and this war on vaccines detracts from that.”

“I wish there was an edit button so you can add comments that have just sprung to mind :-) The 'common flu' kills more people and not everyone is offered the jab which has to be modified for each new type of strain but it mutates so is it less likely to be eradicated, compared to Small Pox and Polio?”

“Also what was the jab that caused severe medical problems provided to the forces, was it the Falklands War Soldiers, they recently won a landmark victory ?”

“To be fair it is not about 'flapping' and reading tabloids it is about questioning something before we go ahead, should we all follow like sheep and have the jab, like they did in the 70's with regards to the swine flu jab which caused more deaths and had mre severe side effects than the flu... like the pregnant woman offered Thalidomide and still offered it in some countries where the warnings are in English and deformed babies are still being born. J. Lincoln you seem to have some knowledge and this is a genuine question, why was alluminim removed from the infant jabs recently?”

“Good job small pox is all but dead only in labs, killed out by those awful vaccines. Same goes for Polio. Given the choice, vaccine, or year or two in an iron lung with the associated deformities until the disease spontaniuously retreated, I'd risk the vaccine. As I have said though, we can all make choices, we just need the information unclouded by sensationalism, which to be fair to the Echo have done to an extent in this article”

“I have never had one vaccine for anything ever, my mum was wise in saying keep clear in my eyes im still here in tip top condition. As if i would let this anywhere near my kids, if i had some, Emma has hit the nail on the head.”