I'm a retired Family Medicine physician living in Shepherdstown. I have advanced degrees in Medicine and in Public Health. Over my long career I saw the value of immunizations which are usually required for attendance at public schools in West Virginia. During my overseas career in many underdeveloped countries I saw what happens when these safe and effective immunizations are not required (or even available) to the public.
The required vaccinations here in the United States (and especially in West Virginia) are so effective that many physicians have never even seen rubella, mumps, measles, polio, whooping cough, diphtheria, and chicken pox. I have seen *all* of these infections in the overseas communities where I worked, and there was little that I and my local medical colleagues could do to significantly alter the outcome of the infections since "treatment" of these infections is too often ineffective. Prevention with vaccines is the only solution.
We cannot go there. The illnesses being prevented by "routine" vaccinations are horrific and completely unnecessary in our country. "Religious" or "philosophical" or "political" exemptions to the vaccines are meaningless when the child (or adult) is lying in front of you dying. Don't ask medical personnel in West Virginia to pick up the pieces of the lives shattered by these infections in unvaccinated children and adults.
John W. Aldis, MD AAFP, MPH & Tropical Medicine
jwaldis@gmail.com Mobile:(304) 283-0041 =================================
From your lips to God's ear. On Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 01:49:05 PM EST, John Aldis via LWVWV members members@lists.lwvwv.org wrote:
I'm a retired Family Medicine physician living in Shepherdstown. I have advanced degrees in Medicine and in Public Health. Over my long career I saw the value of immunizations which are usually required for attendance at public schools in West Virginia. During my overseas career in many underdeveloped countries I saw what happens when these safe and effective immunizations are not required (or even available) to the public. The required vaccinations here in the United States (and especially in West Virginia) are so effective that many physicians have never even seen rubella, mumps, measles, polio, whooping cough, diphtheria, and chicken pox. I have seen all of these infections in the overseas communities where I worked, and there was little that I and my local medical colleagues could do to significantly alter the outcome of the infections since "treatment" of these infections is too often ineffective. Prevention with vaccines is the only solution. We cannot go there. The illnesses being prevented by "routine" vaccinations are horrific and completely unnecessary in our country. "Religious" or "philosophical" or "political" exemptions to the vaccines are meaningless when the child (or adult) is lying in front of you dying. Don't ask medical personnel in West Virginia to pick up the pieces of the lives shattered by these infections in unvaccinated children and adults. John W. Aldis, MD AAFP, MPH & Tropical Medicine jwaldis@gmail.com Mobile:(304) 283-0041 ================================= _______________________________________________ LWVWV members mailing list -- members@lists.lwvwv.org To unsubscribe send an email to members-leave@lists.lwvwv.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://lists.lwvwv.org/hyperkitty/list/members@lists.lwvwv.org/message/ACOS...
Please do not dismiss the doctor’s experience. This is not a matter of philosophy, politics or theology. This is health science and it should not be revised until or unless better science comes along. Thank you, David Fox 431 Nansfield Drive Harpers Ferry, WV 25425
On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM Rose Riter via LWVWV members < members@lists.lwvwv.org> wrote:
From your lips to God's ear.
On Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 01:49:05 PM EST, John Aldis via LWVWV members members@lists.lwvwv.org wrote:
I'm a retired Family Medicine physician living in Shepherdstown. I have advanced degrees in Medicine and in Public Health. Over my long career I saw the value of immunizations which are usually required for attendance at public schools in West Virginia. During my overseas career in many underdeveloped countries I saw what happens when these safe and effective immunizations are not required (or even available) to the public.
The required vaccinations here in the United States (and especially in West Virginia) are so effective that many physicians have never even seen rubella, mumps, measles, polio, whooping cough, diphtheria, and chicken pox. I have seen *all* of these infections in the overseas communities where I worked, and there was little that I and my local medical colleagues could do to significantly alter the outcome of the infections since "treatment" of these infections is too often ineffective. Prevention with vaccines is the only solution.
We cannot go there. The illnesses being prevented by "routine" vaccinations are horrific and completely unnecessary in our country. "Religious" or "philosophical" or "political" exemptions to the vaccines are meaningless when the child (or adult) is lying in front of you dying. Don't ask medical personnel in West Virginia to pick up the pieces of the lives shattered by these infections in unvaccinated children and adults.
John W. Aldis, MD AAFP, MPH & Tropical Medicine
jwaldis@gmail.com Mobile:(304) 283-0041 =================================
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