Public health experts see anti-vaccine bill as scare tactic

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http://www.pressherald.com/2015/03/27/public-health-experts-see-anti-vaccine-bill-as-scare-tactic/

A bill that would create a new state program to investigate vaccine injury claims is being criticized by Maine public health experts as an unscientific scare tactic.

The bill, submitted this week by Rep. Beth O’Connor, R-Berwick, would also require doctors to read a statement to patients letting them know they could be injured by a vaccine and how to seek legal relief if they are. In addition, the bill would include licensing penalties for doctors who make “coercive” statements to patients to convince them to be vaccinated.

Vaccine injuries are exceptionally rare, according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, so rare that it’s “difficult to calculate.” Severe reactions, such as a significant infection, occur less than once in every 600,000 patients, according to the CDC.

“This is trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist,” said Dora Anne Mills, a former Maine CDC director who is now a vice president at the University of New England. “This is an anti-vaccine bill that is trying to scare people from getting vaccines, one of the most successful public health efforts of the past 100 years.”

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1. Can I sue her for the time I had mumps, the year before I got the shot?

These dumb-asses want to kill people.