It looks like the medical community may admit that a vaccine caused neurological problems. This is interesting to me because the people receiving the shots were teens trying to ward off meningitis. The big deal here is that these people could report their reactions- babies can’t- and for some reasons doctors completely discount the observations of a child’s parents. All of my children had horrible reactions to their shots. One of my children has autism. One of them would cry for hours and his leg would swell to the size of a grapefruit. One of them ended up in the hospital, and his doctor says with a smile, it looks like no more pertussis shots for you! No one would ever believe me when I would report their reactions. I am a fairly intelligent, level-headed person. I do not panic in an emergency generally. Yet I was treated by the medical community like a hysterical hypochondriac. When will the madness end? These are children, not interesting cases. Perhaps my children are more sensitve than others, but we are not the only ones. The problem is that vaccines have been incredibly helpful in the past. This is the wrong path to take. We are only trading one problem for another, usually worse and uncurable. We are preventing chicken pox and causing autism. We are preventing meningitis and causing paralysis. Who knows? When the research is done are we going to find that we warded off the flu only to give seniors alzhiemers? Doctors need to find another avenue- they need to give up on vaccines, at least in their current incarnation and method of treatment for something less harmful. Doctors should DO NO HARM. I have avoided vaccinating my youngest (the one who shouldn’t have any more pertussis) and I am worried about him contracting something horrible that there is a vaccine for- but I am more worried about him contracting something that there is no cure for. If you or a family member has a bad reaction to a vaccine, report it. It is going to take alot of people to change things.