A recent story carried by NPR, Yahoo, AP and others praised the 91% reduction in measles associated deaths in Africa between 2000 and 2006 and gave credit to the measles vaccination.

VacLib Comment:
However, a clue to what really saved lives is their admission that,
"In 2006, 21 million insecticide treated bed nets for malaria prevention were distributed and 87 million doses of vitamin A, which prevents blindness, were handed out during measles vaccination campaigns."
AP: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j98fMzvKKDvwjKpkthzSpLl6qygAD8T7DOC80

Estimates for the life saving due to insecticide-treated bed nets (ITN) range up to 30% reduction of all-cause mortality.
Estimates for the life saving due to Vitamin A capsules range from 20% to 60% of all-cause mortality - depending upon study and area.

http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/content/full/73/1/149
Accordingly, community-randomized controlled trials conducted across a range of malaria transmission settings in sub-Saharan Africa have shown ITNs [insecticide-treated bed nets] and insecticide-treated curtains (ITCs) to be associated with up to a 30% reduction in all-cause child mortality over the first 1–2 years of the trials.

http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnutrition/vitaminasaga.html
Vitamin A supplementation of children in Asia and Africa has been extremely effective in reducing the rates of infection, diarrhea, anemia and blindness (Reuter's 2/12/01). African and Asian children receiving vitamin-A supplements grow faster, have better hemoglobin values and die 30-60 percent less frequently than nonsupplemented peers
(J Nutr Jan 1989 119(1):96-100).

It should be noted that vitamin A caps cost 2-cents! And provide several months protection. Vitamin A reduces malaria incidence, improves immunity and lowers HIV transmission in mothers.

"What really was amazing was that we started running across parents in large numbers with the same exact story," said Blackburn.
That's no surprise says, pediatrician, Dr. Eric Ryndland who is considered one of the nations foremost experts on autism and controversial in his public concerns over what he considers a potential safety risk of vaccines for some children and the urgent need he says for all parents to take charge of the decision to vaccinate or not.
As a former Miami-Dade detective turned holistic clinician, he is in the investigation of his life, trying to determine if there is a link between children getting vaccinated and autism, which he says is presenting in high numbers at the 18-month mark.
Read whole story at: http://cbs4.com/seenon/vaccine.autism.kids.2.598341.html

Children herded like cattle into Maryland courthouse for forced vaccinations as armed police and attack dogs stand guard.
Monday, November 19, 2007
(NewsTarget) Following the State of Maryland's threats against parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated, children were herded into a Price George County courthouse being guarded by armed personnel with attack dogs. Inside, the children were forcibly vaccinated, many against their will, under orders from the State Attorney General, various State Judges and the local School Board Director, all of whom illegally conspired to threaten parents with imprisonment if they did not submit their children to vaccinations.
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