bilby
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Most contraindications for influenza vaccine are due to allergy to eggs. Such allergies are usually well known to parents early in their child's life, as eggs are ubiquitous in the modern diet. Before administering a flu vaccination, patients are explicitly asked about egg allergy. This is not rocket science.The number who can not be vaccinated is far larger than you think. Anyone immunocompromised. Anyone who is allergic to the growth medium of the vaccine.
And how is that known without compromising the health of the patient? So far as I know, most patients are vaccinated without any prior testing to determine whether such conditions exist prior to inoculation.
Autism-like symptoms are not an indication of autism in her case - her actual condition is rare, but has been reliably diagnosed as Mitochondrial Enzyme Deficit.My understanding of the settlement of the Hannah Poling case via the Vaccine Court is that her 'autism-like' symptomology
Your understanding is wrong. But that's not surprising.was the result of the vaccine administration and a pre-existing genetic condition of the child.
No, it isn't. About 1 in 4,000 children in the United States will develop mitochondrial disease by the age of 10 years - and her particular enzyme deficit is a small subset of that group. Being a scientist is not, unfortunately, any guarantee against being a liar.That condition was not known prior to vaccination, nor was it realized that such a condition would be the result. The condition she has, according to her scientist father, is estimated to be present in approximately five per cent of the general populace.
And nor should it be.So, is that condition now routinely tested for before administering vaccines? No.
Her father has very effectively played the system to obtain financial benefit for his family; This is not evidence that he is telling the truth, nor that his allegations are fact-based.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hannah_Poling
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0802904#t=article
People who make money from the dissemination of dangerous nonsense are scum. It's a great shame that Jon Poling had the misfortune to have a daughter with a serious genetic defect. My sympathy for him evaporated when he chose to seek financial advantage by lying about that defect, in such a way as to harm the rest of the society in which he lives, but to benefit himself financially.
Unfortunately the US legal system reflects public opinion, and in doing so is deliberately scientifically ignorant.