1 00:00:57,349 --> 00:00:54,829 hello I'm Richard Saunders 2 00:00:58,970 --> 00:00:57,359 welcome to the vaccination Chronicles in 3 00:01:01,729 --> 00:00:58,980 this video I'd like to tell you about a 4 00:01:03,979 --> 00:01:01,739 time in our history not so long ago when 5 00:01:06,410 --> 00:01:03,989 parents live with the very real fear 6 00:01:08,380 --> 00:01:06,420 that at any time their children could 7 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:08,390 succumb to the deadly effects of 8 00:01:13,730 --> 00:01:11,610 infectious diseases I'd like to tell you 9 00:01:17,090 --> 00:01:13,740 what it was like back then but I really 10 00:01:18,620 --> 00:01:17,100 can't I wasn't there I was born after 11 00:01:20,090 --> 00:01:18,630 the widespread introduction of 12 00:01:21,950 --> 00:01:20,100 vaccinations for diseases such as 13 00:01:25,210 --> 00:01:21,960 pertussis which is whooping cough 14 00:01:29,889 --> 00:01:25,220 diphtheria rubella tuberculosis and 15 00:01:33,139 --> 00:01:29,899 infantile paralysis polio mellitus polio 16 00:01:36,050 --> 00:01:33,149 so we need to hear from people who were 17 00:01:37,789 --> 00:01:36,060 there people who even lost members of 18 00:01:40,309 --> 00:01:37,799 their family and not just babies and 19 00:01:42,859 --> 00:01:40,319 children to diseases we hardly hear 20 00:01:44,449 --> 00:01:42,869 about today we'll also hear from some 21 00:01:47,270 --> 00:01:44,459 others about some of the fears and 22 00:01:49,609 --> 00:01:47,280 misconceptions both real and invented 23 00:01:51,859 --> 00:01:49,619 about modern vaccinations that seems as 24 00:01:54,490 --> 00:01:51,869 there's no end of bad information out 25 00:01:57,709 --> 00:01:54,500 there especially on the Internet 26 00:02:00,020 --> 00:01:57,719 but now let's hear from some people who 27 00:02:05,289 --> 00:02:00,030 have seen firsthand the effects of 28 00:02:13,250 --> 00:02:10,340 my mother died of TB at the age of 19 29 00:02:16,190 --> 00:02:13,260 and I was 15 months old 30 00:02:21,290 --> 00:02:16,200 I never ever knew never knew my mother 31 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:21,300 and her two brothers in periods varying 32 00:02:29,059 --> 00:02:23,730 periods after that died of the same 33 00:02:33,229 --> 00:02:29,069 disease they I think what one was up to 34 00:02:35,809 --> 00:02:33,239 about 10 or 11 years after that but 35 00:02:41,449 --> 00:02:35,819 everybody had it just about you know it 36 00:02:48,009 --> 00:02:41,459 was it was just like measles was too 37 00:02:53,509 --> 00:02:51,590 but they did anyway once you get rid of 38 00:02:54,140 --> 00:02:53,519 those things you don't want to get them 39 00:02:56,979 --> 00:02:54,150 back 40 00:03:01,400 --> 00:02:56,989 you won't I mean you wanted to stay out 41 00:03:05,830 --> 00:03:01,410 like smallpox things like that that we 42 00:03:10,210 --> 00:03:05,840 don't have anymore but we did have them 43 00:03:14,180 --> 00:03:10,220 this is early 50s and I'm about 5 or 6 44 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:14,190 and I can remember sitting at the dining 45 00:03:22,009 --> 00:03:17,850 table and there's a doctor talking to my 46 00:03:25,789 --> 00:03:22,019 father who's standing up and the doctors 47 00:03:26,990 --> 00:03:25,799 telling my dad my sister's my baby 48 00:03:31,340 --> 00:03:27,000 sister's got polio 49 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:31,350 and the look of horror on his face and I 50 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:32,850 can hear my mother sobbing in the 51 00:03:40,550 --> 00:03:36,090 bedroom because this is the worst 52 00:03:44,060 --> 00:03:40,560 possible news and I remember going up to 53 00:03:46,370 --> 00:03:44,070 the Townsville Hospital the you know 54 00:03:50,390 --> 00:03:46,380 three of us to go and visit my baby 55 00:03:53,030 --> 00:03:50,400 sister and she's lying in a in a bed in 56 00:03:56,150 --> 00:03:53,040 a hospital ward and then it appeared to 57 00:03:59,330 --> 00:03:56,160 my child's brain there were dozens of 58 00:04:01,910 --> 00:03:59,340 kids and this was a polio ward this 59 00:04:04,130 --> 00:04:01,920 wasn't all the illnesses and accidents 60 00:04:08,479 --> 00:04:04,140 that were around this was an entire Ward 61 00:04:11,270 --> 00:04:08,489 devoted to children as luck would have 62 00:04:14,030 --> 00:04:11,280 it she was well cared for and she 63 00:04:17,530 --> 00:04:14,040 recovered but I can remember going to 64 00:04:20,390 --> 00:04:17,540 school about the same time 65 00:04:22,099 --> 00:04:20,400 and it was after the holidays and we all 66 00:04:24,140 --> 00:04:22,109 get back and we're saying a lot of kids 67 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:24,150 that we hadn't seen for a few weeks and 68 00:04:29,510 --> 00:04:26,130 I'm saying where's Billy where's Tommy 69 00:04:33,050 --> 00:04:29,520 and someone said oh they've got the 70 00:04:35,719 --> 00:04:33,060 polio and that was all people needed to 71 00:04:38,420 --> 00:04:35,729 say because you knew that you'd probably 72 00:04:41,210 --> 00:04:38,430 never see them again and I never did and 73 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:41,220 I gather they died there was a girl in 74 00:04:49,460 --> 00:04:44,610 my class who had calipers as a result of 75 00:04:53,180 --> 00:04:49,470 polio I remember I started that 76 00:04:56,810 --> 00:04:53,190 schooling first class so she must have 77 00:04:59,300 --> 00:04:56,820 had it when she was much younger and 78 00:05:02,090 --> 00:04:59,310 also I remember a friend of Mines father 79 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:02,100 who'd had polio and he had one really 80 00:05:07,969 --> 00:05:04,710 withered leg you know it was like half 81 00:05:10,550 --> 00:05:07,979 the size of the the other leg and he had 82 00:05:14,900 --> 00:05:10,560 this funny gait we had to sort of 83 00:05:19,490 --> 00:05:14,910 accommodate for that well when I was 11 84 00:05:22,730 --> 00:05:19,500 that was 1951 I just felt very sick one 85 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:22,740 day at school I went home and my mother 86 00:05:28,909 --> 00:05:24,810 did what awkward mothers would do put a 87 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:28,919 child to bed I had a very high fever and 88 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:31,650 my back was aching I was really very 89 00:05:38,260 --> 00:05:35,849 very sick the doctor was called and I 90 00:05:41,870 --> 00:05:38,270 can remember the doctor checking out 91 00:05:43,399 --> 00:05:41,880 arms and legs bending and also the 92 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:43,409 doctor asked me to sit up which was very 93 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:46,530 painful and to put my chin on my chest 94 00:05:53,750 --> 00:05:51,510 and I couldn't do that and immediately 95 00:05:54,439 --> 00:05:53,760 he said to my parents she must go to 96 00:06:00,710 --> 00:05:54,449 hospital 97 00:06:03,399 --> 00:06:00,720 miles away 40 kilometres away and a 98 00:06:06,050 --> 00:06:03,409 spinal tap revealed that I had polio 99 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:06,060 this was absolutely horrifying because 100 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:10,050 there hadn't been any cases of polio in 101 00:06:15,589 --> 00:06:13,110 my little town at all they'd been one in 102 00:06:18,890 --> 00:06:15,599 the country a young fellow aged 34 a 103 00:06:21,890 --> 00:06:18,900 farmer and he died and the whole town 104 00:06:23,860 --> 00:06:21,900 was reeling and now here was Monica was 105 00:06:28,110 --> 00:06:23,870 polio where did I get it from 106 00:06:31,170 --> 00:06:28,120 nobody knows well my mother was 107 00:06:35,969 --> 00:06:31,180 a nurse before marriage she just in 108 00:06:41,550 --> 00:06:35,979 isolation hospitals she saw children 109 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:41,560 dying of tuberculosis polio diphtheria 110 00:06:52,260 --> 00:06:48,250 and other diseases my father was the 111 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:52,270 eldest of five children when he was 20 112 00:06:58,860 --> 00:06:55,930 1939 his only sister the youngest in the 113 00:07:02,250 --> 00:06:58,870 family died of diphtheria at the age of 114 00:07:04,740 --> 00:07:02,260 two and a half so I was brought up with 115 00:07:07,379 --> 00:07:04,750 stories of kids dying of diphtheria 116 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:07,389 those my mother's had seen and of course 117 00:07:12,930 --> 00:07:10,330 my father's experience I'm the oldest of 118 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:12,940 six children when the youngest was born 119 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:14,289 we hadn't pink off 120 00:07:21,870 --> 00:07:18,370 I remember my little baby sister gasping 121 00:07:24,689 --> 00:07:21,880 for breath a little surge black surgical 122 00:07:27,270 --> 00:07:24,699 belt around her barely holding in her 123 00:07:29,219 --> 00:07:27,280 navel which had become herniated as a 124 00:07:32,010 --> 00:07:29,229 result of this of the strain of a 125 00:07:34,430 --> 00:07:32,020 coughing she was very seriously ill and 126 00:07:37,529 --> 00:07:34,440 these days almost certainly would be 127 00:07:38,969 --> 00:07:37,539 hospitalized but there my mother having 128 00:07:41,370 --> 00:07:38,979 been the next nurse that probably 129 00:07:44,129 --> 00:07:41,380 thought that she was well looked after 130 00:07:48,089 --> 00:07:44,139 at home as otherwise and I remember the 131 00:07:51,390 --> 00:07:48,099 open cough the mm-hmm and then the 132 00:07:53,790 --> 00:07:51,400 coughing and then the the vomiting must 133 00:07:55,110 --> 00:07:53,800 been very hard for my mother just having 134 00:08:00,379 --> 00:07:55,120 given birth to a child now me to look 135 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:00,389 after six six kids sick kids as well a 136 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:02,650 personal example for my own family is 137 00:08:07,740 --> 00:08:05,650 Mike doesn't fill up when he was young 138 00:08:09,510 --> 00:08:07,750 he don't live I heard he's late came 139 00:08:12,210 --> 00:08:09,520 back to his parents and said I've got a 140 00:08:14,370 --> 00:08:12,220 sore leg they panicked their first 141 00:08:15,870 --> 00:08:14,380 thought was polio took him to the doctor 142 00:08:18,150 --> 00:08:15,880 no problem at all or done was heard 143 00:08:19,770 --> 00:08:18,160 himself from falling over two days later 144 00:08:22,140 --> 00:08:19,780 his very best friend Frank who lived two 145 00:08:24,810 --> 00:08:22,150 streets away had the same experience he 146 00:08:28,230 --> 00:08:24,820 fell over saw leg his parents took him 147 00:08:29,250 --> 00:08:28,240 to the doctor polio Frank died in 2012 148 00:08:32,100 --> 00:08:29,260 it's been his life in the wheelchair 149 00:08:34,140 --> 00:08:32,110 this was a very very scary disease and 150 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:34,150 people were very very worried about it 151 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:38,530 with the g-word good cause I remember 152 00:08:43,450 --> 00:08:41,450 when I was in nimbin working 153 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:43,460 as a medical student helping a doctor 154 00:08:49,030 --> 00:08:46,490 and in came selves his work experience 155 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:49,040 yes part of the medical rotation and in 156 00:08:55,180 --> 00:08:52,130 came to parents and this kid it's New 157 00:08:56,770 --> 00:08:55,190 York it obviously from the way he was 158 00:08:58,570 --> 00:08:56,780 walking here at polio it was a very 159 00:09:01,090 --> 00:08:58,580 characteristic walk quite different from 160 00:09:03,910 --> 00:09:01,100 a Parkinson's walk from a stroke walk 161 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:03,920 quite obvious and we looked at each 162 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:05,810 other and we didn't say a single thing 163 00:09:09,130 --> 00:09:07,310 the doctor and I and then they went 164 00:09:10,810 --> 00:09:09,140 through the story about how they just 165 00:09:13,570 --> 00:09:10,820 come back from India and then the doctor 166 00:09:15,700 --> 00:09:13,580 asked a few questions and he said and 167 00:09:19,180 --> 00:09:15,710 did he brings a fight against polio no 168 00:09:23,650 --> 00:09:19,190 and he said he did few tests and then he 169 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:23,660 said look it's pretty obvious to me that 170 00:09:28,450 --> 00:09:25,490 your child has polio and the parents got 171 00:09:30,580 --> 00:09:28,460 so upset they didn't want to believe 172 00:09:32,380 --> 00:09:30,590 they started firstly being rational and 173 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:32,390 saying things like well there's no such 174 00:09:36,310 --> 00:09:34,370 diseases polio and then they started 175 00:09:37,630 --> 00:09:36,320 saying things like well um polio doesn't 176 00:09:39,130 --> 00:09:37,640 exist anymore because we all live better 177 00:09:42,580 --> 00:09:39,140 there is no infectious disease such as 178 00:09:44,230 --> 00:09:42,590 polio and you can't get it and then they 179 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:44,240 started kicking chairs a little bit and 180 00:09:48,850 --> 00:09:47,090 then stormed out they did not want to 181 00:09:51,460 --> 00:09:48,860 live with the fact that by not 182 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:51,470 vaccinating their kid against polio they 183 00:09:59,050 --> 00:09:53,810 had been paralyzed their kid in one leg 184 00:10:01,270 --> 00:09:59,060 by taking him to India so what about 185 00:10:04,450 --> 00:10:01,280 hospital they really was no treatment 186 00:10:08,470 --> 00:10:04,460 for a person with polio I had a high 187 00:10:12,550 --> 00:10:08,480 fever and I was just put onto a flatbed 188 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:12,560 no pillow and told to stay there and I 189 00:10:18,670 --> 00:10:14,410 can I was too sick to go anywhere anyway 190 00:10:21,850 --> 00:10:18,680 so I just stayed there and eventually I 191 00:10:25,780 --> 00:10:21,860 was moved out onto a veranda because 192 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:25,790 more people needed to be inside people 193 00:10:30,010 --> 00:10:27,710 who no longer had a fever were being 194 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:30,020 moved on to the ranters I mean 195 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:33,710 unenclosed verandas with just gauze and 196 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:37,610 blind down but always near me was a 197 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:40,610 horrible barrel looking thing which they 198 00:10:45,310 --> 00:10:43,250 said to me was an iron lung and they 199 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:45,320 said that I might need that because the 200 00:10:52,330 --> 00:10:48,770 polio I had was in the throat and in my 201 00:10:53,150 --> 00:10:52,340 speech I couldn't swallow couldn't talk 202 00:10:55,820 --> 00:10:53,160 properly 203 00:10:59,990 --> 00:10:55,830 and that's the one that tends to go down 204 00:11:01,970 --> 00:11:00,000 into the lungs very quickly and so I was 205 00:11:04,220 --> 00:11:01,980 really thrilled one day when the the 206 00:11:06,860 --> 00:11:04,230 iron lung wasn't there because I thought 207 00:11:09,470 --> 00:11:06,870 oh good I don't need it anymore but of 208 00:11:12,380 --> 00:11:09,480 course somebody did and I can remember 209 00:11:14,540 --> 00:11:12,390 of the 50s where people lived in dread 210 00:11:17,540 --> 00:11:14,550 of these terrible illnesses that just 211 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:17,550 took so many people walk through an old 212 00:11:21,620 --> 00:11:19,530 cemetery and look at the headstones of 213 00:11:24,830 --> 00:11:21,630 who died and how old and you're looking 214 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:24,840 at babies that died and that's that's 215 00:11:33,380 --> 00:11:31,170 basically all gone all gone at the 216 00:11:37,430 --> 00:11:33,390 beginning of the 20th century infant 217 00:11:39,740 --> 00:11:37,440 mortality in Australia was over 10% can 218 00:11:43,220 --> 00:11:39,750 you imagine it more than one in ten 219 00:11:44,780 --> 00:11:43,230 babies died many of those from vaccine 220 00:11:47,330 --> 00:11:44,790 preventable diseases 221 00:11:52,970 --> 00:11:47,340 what would their parents have given to 222 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:52,980 protect their children reports like 223 00:11:59,600 --> 00:11:56,130 these were commonplace in the newspapers 224 00:12:02,810 --> 00:11:59,610 of the time it was sad but no surprise 225 00:12:05,210 --> 00:12:02,820 to anyone over the course of the 20th 226 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:05,220 century important health measures were 227 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:07,770 introduced that saw this mortality rate 228 00:12:15,620 --> 00:12:10,410 plummet chief amongst these was 229 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:15,630 widespread vaccination I'd like to read 230 00:12:18,710 --> 00:12:17,130 to you something I discovered while I 231 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:18,720 was doing research for this documentary 232 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:21,690 and this comes from the Perth Daily News 233 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:25,910 dated April 1903 234 00:12:31,670 --> 00:12:29,610 coughing dislocate sénèque in certifying 235 00:12:34,010 --> 00:12:31,680 a child's death to the Southwark coroner 236 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:34,020 a medical man reports that the deceased 237 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:35,910 had been under treatment for whooping 238 00:12:41,150 --> 00:12:38,970 cough death was due to a broken neck and 239 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:41,160 in the absence of any definable cause 240 00:12:45,890 --> 00:12:43,110 the doctor was forced to the conclusion 241 00:12:50,890 --> 00:12:45,900 that the child dislocated its neck 242 00:12:52,670 --> 00:12:50,900 during a violent fit of coughing I 243 00:12:54,380 --> 00:12:52,680 remember when I was in the first batch 244 00:12:56,450 --> 00:12:54,390 of kids in Wollongong to get vaccinated 245 00:12:58,580 --> 00:12:56,460 we all got put on buses in primary 246 00:13:00,050 --> 00:12:58,590 school and then got shipped down to the 247 00:13:02,690 --> 00:13:00,060 Pioneer Hall and then they stabbed all 248 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:02,700 of us and in my class there was a kid 249 00:13:08,060 --> 00:13:06,210 who had calipers and there were two more 250 00:13:10,970 --> 00:13:08,070 kids in the school who had been hit by 251 00:13:12,950 --> 00:13:10,980 polio polio only gets about half a 252 00:13:15,110 --> 00:13:12,960 percent of everybody that infects so 253 00:13:16,730 --> 00:13:15,120 infects the population only about half a 254 00:13:18,380 --> 00:13:16,740 percent of them actually come down with 255 00:13:19,850 --> 00:13:18,390 the neurological symptoms and these are 256 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:19,860 the three kids from our school and it 257 00:13:25,490 --> 00:13:23,010 was only years later so I realized that 258 00:13:27,860 --> 00:13:25,500 all the parents standing around had 259 00:13:29,690 --> 00:13:27,870 deliberately as an act of the society 260 00:13:31,490 --> 00:13:29,700 given up the chance to have them 261 00:13:35,180 --> 00:13:31,500 vaccinated and protected against polio 262 00:13:37,970 --> 00:13:35,190 so that we their children could get 263 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:37,980 saved what a generous bunch of parents I 264 00:13:42,879 --> 00:13:41,850 was about a year after my sister came 265 00:13:45,009 --> 00:13:42,889 home 266 00:13:51,340 --> 00:13:45,019 there was an announcement that a vaccine 267 00:13:53,829 --> 00:13:51,350 had been invented for polio and it was 268 00:13:56,039 --> 00:13:53,839 like a huge cloud had been lifted from 269 00:13:59,319 --> 00:13:56,049 the suburbs because there'd been this 270 00:14:00,999 --> 00:13:59,329 cloud of gloom and doom it was the dread 271 00:14:03,460 --> 00:14:01,009 that your child would be the next to 272 00:14:07,119 --> 00:14:03,470 come down with polio and at last it was 273 00:14:09,249 --> 00:14:07,129 hope and it very soon after all of us 274 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:09,259 kids were taken up to the school and we 275 00:14:13,239 --> 00:14:11,689 were lined up on the verandas around a 276 00:14:18,669 --> 00:14:13,249 hundred of us and we all got our jabs 277 00:14:20,769 --> 00:14:18,679 and polio just disappeared the gloom had 278 00:14:23,019 --> 00:14:20,779 lifted and it wasn't even a subject for 279 00:14:26,679 --> 00:14:23,029 discussion anymore and you saw the 280 00:14:28,869 --> 00:14:26,689 occasional child or adult with callipers 281 00:14:31,090 --> 00:14:28,879 and so on but that's all there was 282 00:14:34,239 --> 00:14:31,100 polio just disappeared as if it was 283 00:14:37,809 --> 00:14:34,249 magic but it wasn't magic it was science 284 00:14:40,179 --> 00:14:37,819 at work these days the decision to 285 00:14:42,220 --> 00:14:40,189 vaccinate is not a hard one but some 286 00:14:44,199 --> 00:14:42,230 people aren't convinced in a way 287 00:14:46,509 --> 00:14:44,209 vaccination has become a victim of its 288 00:14:48,699 --> 00:14:46,519 own success with people wondering why 289 00:14:51,129 --> 00:14:48,709 why in this day and age why would they 290 00:14:52,989 --> 00:14:51,139 vaccinate because diseases like whooping 291 00:14:55,299 --> 00:14:52,999 cough although dramatically decreased 292 00:14:57,159 --> 00:14:55,309 are still with us and are still claiming 293 00:14:59,259 --> 00:14:57,169 lives and yet there are people 294 00:15:01,659 --> 00:14:59,269 especially in developed countries with 295 00:15:04,269 --> 00:15:01,669 low rates of infection who are 296 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:04,279 vehemently opposed to vaccination 297 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:06,290 claiming it's responsible for everything 298 00:15:12,090 --> 00:15:10,910 from autism to SIDS to even shaken baby 299 00:15:14,139 --> 00:15:12,100 syndrome 300 00:15:16,650 --> 00:15:14,149 unbelievably some people deny 301 00:15:21,659 --> 00:15:16,660 vaccination has prevented any disease 302 00:15:24,220 --> 00:15:21,669 whatsoever there's almost no data for 303 00:15:26,859 --> 00:15:24,230 for significant damage caused by 304 00:15:29,739 --> 00:15:26,869 vaccines any more than anyone having an 305 00:15:32,169 --> 00:15:29,749 injection of any sort most of those 306 00:15:35,650 --> 00:15:32,179 reactions to injections are caused by 307 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:35,660 fainting if your child's not vaccinated 308 00:15:39,189 --> 00:15:37,730 that's fine as long as no one else comes 309 00:15:41,799 --> 00:15:39,199 to this country and brings the disease 310 00:15:44,079 --> 00:15:41,809 with them if someone comes in from 311 00:15:46,359 --> 00:15:44,089 another country or the virus gets away 312 00:15:49,329 --> 00:15:46,369 some other way then it's possible that 313 00:15:51,069 --> 00:15:49,339 an epidemic can occur and of course most 314 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:51,079 of these ill many of these unless and 315 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:52,730 perhaps not all of them but many of 316 00:15:59,069 --> 00:15:54,850 these illnesses are life-threatening 317 00:16:01,290 --> 00:15:59,079 and if you have 50% of the infant 318 00:16:02,009 --> 00:16:01,300 population getting a disease like 319 00:16:04,319 --> 00:16:02,019 measles 320 00:16:06,650 --> 00:16:04,329 you're going to have deaths and there'll 321 00:16:08,910 --> 00:16:06,660 be a number of deaths measles can be a 322 00:16:11,189 --> 00:16:08,920 is a life-threatening illness and of 323 00:16:14,069 --> 00:16:11,199 course polio much more so tetanus 324 00:16:16,050 --> 00:16:14,079 diphtheria whooping cough whooping 325 00:16:17,850 --> 00:16:16,060 coughs you know it's quite a high 326 00:16:20,100 --> 00:16:17,860 mortality and because polio has a very 327 00:16:23,730 --> 00:16:20,110 high mortality and a very long morbidity 328 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:23,740 and so if you if we have 15 and 15 329 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:26,050 percent of our population susceptible to 330 00:16:31,860 --> 00:16:29,410 these illnesses then of course you know 331 00:16:34,439 --> 00:16:31,870 all sorts of disasters can occur for for 332 00:16:37,379 --> 00:16:34,449 the children and so you by not 333 00:16:39,180 --> 00:16:37,389 vaccinating your child you only put your 334 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:39,190 own child at risk but you put at risk 335 00:16:43,439 --> 00:16:41,110 the children who have also gone to the 336 00:16:45,689 --> 00:16:43,449 trouble of being vaccinated because some 337 00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:45,699 of them because of the immune system or 338 00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:47,649 whatever will actually be susceptible to 339 00:16:52,980 --> 00:16:51,310 the disease one of the persistent myths 340 00:16:55,259 --> 00:16:52,990 about vaccines and the dangers of 341 00:16:57,530 --> 00:16:55,269 vaccines is that vaccination causes 342 00:16:59,910 --> 00:16:57,540 autism or certain vaccines cause autism 343 00:17:03,509 --> 00:16:59,920 there have been dozens of studies done 344 00:17:06,260 --> 00:17:03,519 that have shown no connection what the 345 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:06,270 connection easel is simply coincidence 346 00:17:11,090 --> 00:17:09,610 autism is detected at about the age when 347 00:17:12,779 --> 00:17:11,100 some of the earlier vaccines are given 348 00:17:14,279 --> 00:17:12,789 it's not something you can usually 349 00:17:17,100 --> 00:17:14,289 detect early like something in some 350 00:17:20,730 --> 00:17:17,110 cases you can there's just been a recent 351 00:17:22,230 --> 00:17:20,740 study done with an analysis of as many 352 00:17:24,659 --> 00:17:22,240 studies you get followed by a new 353 00:17:26,309 --> 00:17:24,669 academic Sydney University and what he 354 00:17:27,799 --> 00:17:26,319 found was that when you put them all 355 00:17:30,570 --> 00:17:27,809 together and collect all the information 356 00:17:31,770 --> 00:17:30,580 it just became stronger there is no 357 00:17:34,770 --> 00:17:31,780 connection between vaccination and 358 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:34,780 autism so it can be can be detected 359 00:17:39,029 --> 00:17:36,850 early that the normal type of detection 360 00:17:40,590 --> 00:17:39,039 and just to do not do with the 361 00:17:42,210 --> 00:17:40,600 developmental stages of children that 362 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:42,220 they don't show the signs of autism 363 00:17:46,649 --> 00:17:44,770 until they're about sometimes like 2 or 364 00:17:49,289 --> 00:17:46,659 3 years old and that's when they can get 365 00:17:50,669 --> 00:17:49,299 a lot of the vaccines it's a myth and 366 00:17:53,430 --> 00:17:50,679 it's a myth which should be stomped on 367 00:17:55,070 --> 00:17:53,440 and should stop there being repeated but 368 00:17:58,169 --> 00:17:55,080 there's people out there who are 369 00:18:00,060 --> 00:17:58,179 bitterly opposed to vaccination and they 370 00:18:02,750 --> 00:18:00,070 have all sorts of reasons they object to 371 00:18:04,310 --> 00:18:02,760 the science they object to the 372 00:18:06,570 --> 00:18:04,320 socialization of it 373 00:18:07,730 --> 00:18:06,580 but the thing is they don't know what 374 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:07,740 it's like I'm one 375 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:09,570 the last of the generation that saw 376 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:12,090 these things right up close I saw it in 377 00:18:17,870 --> 00:18:14,490 my father's face I saw it in my mother's 378 00:18:20,090 --> 00:18:17,880 eye cell I saw it in my school friends 379 00:18:23,380 --> 00:18:20,100 who wore calipers or just I never saw a 380 00:18:26,570 --> 00:18:23,390 game it just doesn't happen today 381 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:26,580 why are these people so bitterly opposed 382 00:18:30,430 --> 00:18:29,010 to vaccinations they don't know what 383 00:18:33,940 --> 00:18:30,440 they're talking about 384 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:33,950 it's they have all these reasons that 385 00:18:40,070 --> 00:18:36,410 just don't make sense 386 00:18:42,290 --> 00:18:40,080 it's they're just rubbish get your child 387 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:42,300 vaccinated see a real doctor not a crank 388 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:45,690 see a real doctor get their immunization 389 00:18:50,540 --> 00:18:48,210 program get them up-to-date keep them 390 00:18:54,940 --> 00:18:50,550 up-to-date and you won't see what I saw 391 00:18:59,390 --> 00:18:56,720 the first thing to realize about 392 00:19:01,520 --> 00:18:59,400 vaccinations is that they were invented 393 00:19:04,299 --> 00:19:01,530 by human beings they're not perfect 394 00:19:06,620 --> 00:19:04,309 nothing made by humans is perfect but 395 00:19:09,110 --> 00:19:06,630 overwhelmingly the odds are in your 396 00:19:11,030 --> 00:19:09,120 favor if you get vaccinated I've got my 397 00:19:12,290 --> 00:19:11,040 kids vaccinated I tell everybody get 398 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:12,300 their kids vaccinated they're not 399 00:19:16,750 --> 00:19:14,370 perfect you'll have a fever or maybe 400 00:19:18,770 --> 00:19:16,760 maybe some to the other but they 401 00:19:19,340 --> 00:19:18,780 overwhelmingly the odds are in your 402 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:19,350 favor 403 00:19:23,750 --> 00:19:22,110 simply because nothing made by humans is 404 00:19:29,450 --> 00:19:23,760 perfect but the odds are in your favor 405 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:29,460 get vaccinated it's so important like 406 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:32,910 just just a little needle and then their 407 00:19:38,950 --> 00:19:36,090 children they've taken away all the 408 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:38,960 worry against them getting these things 409 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:41,850 you think they might die I remember too 410 00:19:49,460 --> 00:19:45,570 until my children having whooping cough 411 00:19:53,330 --> 00:19:49,470 together and that was a very worrying 412 00:19:55,340 --> 00:19:53,340 time if our grandmothers knew that there 413 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:55,350 was a treatment or prevention for the 414 00:20:00,500 --> 00:19:57,510 diseases that their children died from 415 00:20:03,850 --> 00:20:00,510 and we weren't accessing those they 416 00:20:06,260 --> 00:20:03,860 would kick us from here into next week 417 00:20:08,660 --> 00:20:06,270 the disease's we've been talking about 418 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:08,670 can affect children for the rest of 419 00:20:13,730 --> 00:20:10,890 their lives even when all the symptoms 420 00:20:15,770 --> 00:20:13,740 are gone part of the disease can linger 421 00:20:18,919 --> 00:20:15,780 in the body for decades only to return 422 00:20:20,490 --> 00:20:18,929 later in life a very nasty visitor from 423 00:20:23,950 --> 00:20:20,500 the past 424 00:20:27,370 --> 00:20:23,960 now poliomyelitis polio infantile 425 00:20:30,970 --> 00:20:27,380 paralysis it's been called to involves 426 00:20:32,890 --> 00:20:30,980 the muscles it involves the paralysis of 427 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:32,900 the muscles and often these are the 428 00:20:37,090 --> 00:20:34,850 muscles of the lungs the breathing 429 00:20:39,580 --> 00:20:37,100 apparatus and a person that's affected 430 00:20:41,470 --> 00:20:39,590 so in order for a person to stay alive 431 00:20:45,310 --> 00:20:41,480 it was necessary to put polio victims 432 00:20:49,030 --> 00:20:45,320 into an iron lung and this forced the 433 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:49,040 air into and out of a person and for 434 00:20:53,260 --> 00:20:51,170 many many people lying on their back 435 00:20:56,860 --> 00:20:53,270 flat on their back looking at the world 436 00:20:59,770 --> 00:20:56,870 through a mirror eating in there was 437 00:21:01,870 --> 00:20:59,780 their life many people who bent into 438 00:21:04,810 --> 00:21:01,880 iron lungs never ever came out of iron 439 00:21:07,060 --> 00:21:04,820 lungs but many people did spend their 440 00:21:08,530 --> 00:21:07,070 entire life in there and they might have 441 00:21:10,180 --> 00:21:08,540 been allowed out just a little while 442 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:10,190 with assisted breathing to have a shower 443 00:21:15,790 --> 00:21:13,130 had a bath a sponge bath go to the 444 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:15,800 toilet perhaps but most spent their 445 00:21:20,860 --> 00:21:18,290 lives after they were in an iron lung 446 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:20,870 and stayed there I understand that very 447 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:23,330 few came out of them in some hospitals 448 00:21:27,910 --> 00:21:25,450 there were rooms full of iron lungs 449 00:21:32,710 --> 00:21:27,920 helping people to breathe with that 450 00:21:36,550 --> 00:21:32,720 awful sound of compression and like a 451 00:21:38,050 --> 00:21:36,560 pump going to to pump air into people 452 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:38,060 and out of people I think they've been 453 00:21:41,410 --> 00:21:39,890 refined in recent times I don't know 454 00:21:44,260 --> 00:21:41,420 what they used because there's just not 455 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:44,270 the incidence of polio around but it was 456 00:21:48,820 --> 00:21:46,610 certainly an horrific thing to see an 457 00:21:51,070 --> 00:21:48,830 iron lung waiting for you at the end of 458 00:21:53,830 --> 00:21:51,080 your bed and this is what you may need 459 00:21:59,050 --> 00:21:53,840 and I was very determined to get well so 460 00:22:01,360 --> 00:21:59,060 I didn't need an iron lung about latest 461 00:22:04,180 --> 00:22:01,370 vaccines or newest vaccines has been the 462 00:22:06,610 --> 00:22:04,190 herpes zoster virus vaccine which is the 463 00:22:11,230 --> 00:22:06,620 herpes zoster is the virus that causes 464 00:22:14,950 --> 00:22:11,240 chickenpox and can recur later and come 465 00:22:18,580 --> 00:22:14,960 out as as shingles which is a rather 466 00:22:20,980 --> 00:22:18,590 nasty inflammation of the skin so 467 00:22:24,970 --> 00:22:20,990 children or people who are infected with 468 00:22:26,860 --> 00:22:24,980 chickenpox the chickenpox virus after 469 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:26,870 the illnesses over the chickenpox virus 470 00:22:32,780 --> 00:22:29,970 doesn't completely leave us it 471 00:22:36,020 --> 00:22:32,790 it hides in the in the roots of our 472 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:36,030 nerves what's called the ganglia of the 473 00:22:41,330 --> 00:22:38,910 nerve so you have a nerve which goes to 474 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:41,340 your fingertips a or to your chest and 475 00:22:47,330 --> 00:22:44,610 that nerve arises in your spinal cord 476 00:22:51,890 --> 00:22:47,340 and back near spinal cord there's the 477 00:22:54,350 --> 00:22:51,900 the none of ganglia and so the the virus 478 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:54,360 will retreat there until for some reason 479 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:56,370 your immunity drops enough or something 480 00:23:00,500 --> 00:22:57,690 happens to you there's some stressful 481 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:00,510 and the virus will then migrate along 482 00:23:04,730 --> 00:23:02,370 the nerve to where the nerve ends on 483 00:23:06,890 --> 00:23:04,740 your skin and bursts through and attack 484 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:06,900 your skin causing blistering and pain 485 00:23:15,350 --> 00:23:10,710 and a nasty rash and so you'll get a 486 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:15,360 patch of a patch of blistered bird skin 487 00:23:20,810 --> 00:23:18,570 now this can be very unpleasant anywhere 488 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:20,820 but it can sometimes occur on the face 489 00:23:24,770 --> 00:23:22,770 if it occurs on the face you can get 490 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:24,780 scarring and disfigurement and it can 491 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:27,330 even sometimes affect the eye and you 492 00:23:30,970 --> 00:23:29,310 can get herpes zoster in the eye and you 493 00:23:33,980 --> 00:23:30,980 can cause loss of vision 494 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:33,990 now that can be quite a nasty late 495 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:36,930 consequence of of infant infection with 496 00:23:41,540 --> 00:23:39,330 say herpes zoster virus or chickenpox 497 00:23:43,910 --> 00:23:41,550 many people think of chickenpox as a 498 00:23:47,540 --> 00:23:43,920 benign illness all my family had it in 499 00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:47,550 the 50s 60s 70s and 80s and you know 500 00:23:52,610 --> 00:23:49,710 none of them had anything any problem 501 00:23:54,980 --> 00:23:52,620 well mostly that's the case but two 502 00:23:58,930 --> 00:23:54,990 things one is that there is still the 503 00:24:01,400 --> 00:23:58,940 odd case of herpes zoster pneumonia and 504 00:24:04,130 --> 00:24:01,410 children have died from herpes zoster 505 00:24:05,750 --> 00:24:04,140 lung infection when everyone thought 506 00:24:08,030 --> 00:24:05,760 they just had a you know the ordinary 507 00:24:10,910 --> 00:24:08,040 old chickenpox but then much later on 508 00:24:14,510 --> 00:24:10,920 when those same infected people reach 509 00:24:16,940 --> 00:24:14,520 their 60s 70s and 80s they can burst out 510 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:16,950 but the nasty dose of shingles and it's 511 00:24:23,810 --> 00:24:20,010 hoped that the herpes zoster virus by 512 00:24:25,910 --> 00:24:23,820 preventing chickenpox preventing the the 513 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:25,920 actual seeding of these viruses into our 514 00:24:32,620 --> 00:24:29,450 nerves that we won't be susceptible to 515 00:24:35,270 --> 00:24:32,630 those bouts of shingles in later life 516 00:24:37,580 --> 00:24:35,280 when my son was 5 weeks old he 517 00:24:40,390 --> 00:24:37,590 contracted viral meningitis and I spent 518 00:24:42,630 --> 00:24:40,400 five sleepless nights in the hospital 519 00:24:45,780 --> 00:24:42,640 listening to him cry 520 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:45,790 and he was bright red and you could just 521 00:24:52,830 --> 00:24:51,130 tell he was so afraid and it was it was 522 00:24:54,870 --> 00:24:52,840 a really stressful time for me he had a 523 00:24:57,030 --> 00:24:54,880 spinal tap you don't you don't want to 524 00:24:59,730 --> 00:24:57,040 have that happen to a tiny little baby 525 00:25:02,970 --> 00:24:59,740 and to think that there are babies out 526 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:02,980 there that might contract a vaccine 527 00:25:09,419 --> 00:25:07,510 preventible disease just it terrifies me 528 00:25:11,190 --> 00:25:09,429 and that's why i vaccinate because i 529 00:25:13,650 --> 00:25:11,200 want to protect my kids and i want to 530 00:25:15,750 --> 00:25:13,660 protect other people's kids if there was 531 00:25:18,990 --> 00:25:15,760 a vaccinating for the viral meningitis i 532 00:25:22,220 --> 00:25:19,000 would have given that to my both of my 533 00:25:24,659 --> 00:25:22,230 kids no question Tim didn't it was just 534 00:25:26,010 --> 00:25:24,669 an awful thing to experience and I 535 00:25:27,570 --> 00:25:26,020 really don't want to wish that on any 536 00:25:31,380 --> 00:25:27,580 other parent or any other child to go 537 00:25:33,180 --> 00:25:31,390 through that you have an important 538 00:25:35,789 --> 00:25:33,190 decision to make whether to vaccinate or 539 00:25:37,860 --> 00:25:35,799 not and that makes you very lucky for 540 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:37,870 the luxury of having this decision was 541 00:25:42,810 --> 00:25:40,330 not available to most of your ancestors 542 00:25:44,570 --> 00:25:42,820 and is still not available to parents in 543 00:25:46,799 --> 00:25:44,580 many developing parts of the world I 544 00:25:48,930 --> 00:25:46,809 hope you'll remember the stories from 545 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:48,940 the people in this video I hope you'll 546 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:50,770 never know the fear and the sorrow that 547 00:26:20,029 --> 00:25:53,110 was part of their lives and I hope