Comments on: Anti-vaxers “hysterical” over accurate and positive report on vaccination

By: Dear Anti-Vaxxers: Don’t Draw Parallels Between Vaccinations and Thalidomide. It’s Just Plain Uninformed. | Young Australian Skeptics

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:16:44 +0000

[...] (any of the AVN’s supposed balanced reporting could only be called false balance) story about vaccination and the death of Dana McCaffery: Many drugs are taken off the market because they are harmful after being approved for use, eg [...]

By: The 5 Worst Quacks Around Today « Nanobots Will Enslave Us All

The 5 Worst Quacks Around Today « Nanobots Will Enslave Us All — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:09:15 +0000

[...] Dana McCaffrey died from Pertussis. The McCaffreys lived in an area of New South Wales, Australia, which had a very low rate of vaccine compliance. This stopped herd immunity in the region, which is supposed to protect infants and people who for [...]

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:57:01 +0000

@haz, I have it on another page. I’ll fix the link. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Haz

Haz — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:49:39 +0000

Interesting that Youtube took this story down.

By: Rebuttal of Meryl Dorey’s appearance on 6PR « codenix.blog

Rebuttal of Meryl Dorey’s appearance on 6PR « codenix.blog — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:55:07 +0000

[...] The Sceptics’ book of Pooh-Pooh! [...]

By: scep dick

scep dick — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:05:42 +0000

Thanks.

Told you my maths was rubbish.
So the notifications are Drs notifications and the hospitalisations are (obviously) when they are admitted. Can one cross over ie being a notification and then go to hospital?

By: AndyD

AndyD — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:35:00 +0000

@scep dick | This site gives 1:763 for babies under 1yr. The overall average may well be higher but it's clear from this report that babies are most at risk. | "In the three year review period, infants aged less than one year accounted for 3% of all notifications (n=763) but 50% of hospitalisations (n=655)."

By: Maggie

Maggie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:46:56 +0000

@scep dick, that number of cases was for the entire population, not just babies. So Toni’s stats are correct.

By: scep dick

scep dick — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:00:11 +0000

I know this issue is sad and its upsetting but I have some questions about the McCafferty case.

In another post about Dana, the Toni is stated as saying “Pertussis can be deadly, for every 1 in 200 children. Three babies have died from infections in Australia this year.”

Is she referring to the amount who contract whooping cough and then die or the entire population (which is definately incorrect!)?
According to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
http://www9.health.gov.au/cda/Source/Rpt_1_sel_A.cfm
there was 29,316 cases of whooping cough in 2009. If one in 200 babies died (who contract it) we would have 146 deaths! Thats far far more than three. Im pretty crap at maths so if I’ve made a mistake please correct me.
But to me this seems like a case of scare mongering!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:42:24 +0000

Yes Liz, why should we let FACTS stand in the way of instinct and anecdotes?

My brother believes in herbal “medicine” and believes firmly that the difference in real meds and herbal is that the pharmacies “put in the side effects”.

Why? Because a guy with a Master in Herbs told him so.

FACTS are all that matter. Not bull like that, and homeopathy, and gut instinct.

My gut instinct is to protect my children. shots hurt. So do I protect them from the shot or from the diseases that are prevented?

I’ll take the long and healthy life over my instinct to protect from a shot.