Vaccines and Infant Mortality Rate

Earlier this year, Autism Development News included a post about the work of Dr. Neil Z. Miller and Dr. Gary S. Goldman on the connection between vaccines and the infant mortality rate. According to one of their studies that was published in Human and Experimental Toxicology that took a look at metadata from 34 countries on infant mortality rate and the role vaccines may play, the United States had the highest infant mortality rate among developed nations. What's more interesting is that the United States had the highest amount of vaccines given as well.

The United States gives babies on average 26 total vaccines in their first year. Let's compare this with another country Sweden, which is the second on the list for lowest rate of infant mortality. Sweden doctors only give babies 12 does of vaccines in their first year. So what does this say about vaccines and its connection with infant mortality? That is really tough to say.

The connection, though, must be noted and should be more evidence that additional research is necessary to ensure we understand what we are putting into babies' bodies to build their defenses? Is it possible that we could potentially be doing some harm to them as well now and into the future. Claire Dwoskin and the CMSRI are continually working hard to uncover these links and causation through funded research designed to ask the question Why?

The hope is to find causation and learn more about how diseases develop in order to amend medical intervention in early childhood development.