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BLFisher Note:

Apparently, doctors in Britain are more enlightened when it comes to the subject of forced vaccination. They appreciate the fact that, when parents are forced to vaccinate their children without voluntary, informed consent, it damages the sacred trust that should exist between parents and pediatricians. Fear and intimidation, which is often used by doctors, health and education officials in the U.S. to compel parents to vaccinate their children, only leads to a breakdown of faith in both doctors and government health policies.

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/30/umeas

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News Telegraph

Doctors reject compulsory MMR jabs

(Filed: 30/06/2003)

Doctors' leaders have rejected the idea of forcing parents to immunise their children.

In a new report on childhood immunisation, released yesterday, the British Medical Association (BMA) said that compulsory vaccination programmes would destroy the relationship of trust and openness between parents and doctors.

But the paper also states that the BMA believes that the triple measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab is the safest and best way to protect children, despite claims of a link between MMR and autism and bowel disease.

The paper calls on doctors and health workers to stress to parents that vaccination is the safest and most effective way to protect children from infectious disease.

Dr Ian Bogle, the BMA chairman, said: "We have looked carefully at the issue of compulsory vaccination and it is true that some countries do operate immunisation programmes where there is some degree of compulsion. However the BMA does not think this would be right for the United Kingdom."

The report also looked at the issue of whether parents should have a choice of vaccine, for example single doses instead of the triple MMR jab.

Parents first became worried about MMR after a paper in 1999 speculated about a possible link between the jab and autism and bowel disease.

The report pointed out that the paper did not prove any link and only one of the 13 authors suggested that MMR should be given as separate injections one year apart.

The BMA said that although it understood parents' concerns, it was convinced the triple jab was the safest and best way to protect children.

It warned that single vaccines would leave children unprotected for long periods of time raising the risk of epidemics.

It also pointed out that the World Health Organisation advised against single vaccines as people did not always complete the course and their use had not been properly tested.

P.S. Check out the similar articles at:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/30-6-19103-23-54-54.html

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=712742003

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