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Re:The "vaccination causes autism" fraud by patrickgzill on Thursday January 06, 2011 @03:26PM (#2077002)
Downplaying known complications does not serve your argument ...

seizure occurrence for MMR is listed as 1 in 3000; mild fever (1 in 6), rash (1 in 20), temporary stiffness in joints (up to 1 in 4) , etc.

Note this is MMR, not MMRV, which is listed separately, and for which seizure is listed as a 1 in 1250 occurrence ...

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm

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Re:The "vaccination causes autism" fraud by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @11:13AM (#2092285)
Seizure from MMR is due to high fevers, which mumps and measles both have as main symptoms. Given that 90% of people exposed to measles wind up getting it, the complication rate from the MMR diseases is going to be far, far higher than that of the vaccine.

There are decades of research on this.

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