I received this link from the father of patient of mine who is concerned about the affects of vaccines for his child. It will take me some time to deal with the entire article so I am just going to start what is likely to be a multi-part reply.
In paragraph 2, Donald W. Miller, Jr.,MD states what he calls the 5 most common causes of in children under 5. I don’t know where he got his information. This is different than the 2003 data published by the CDC in 2005: s, genetic diseases/congenital malformations, cancer, /assault, and heart disease. Of note, #6 and #7 are both potentially vaccine preventable (influenza/pneumonia and sepsis) depending on the organisms. That is, we have a vaccine for some causes of pneumonia and for influenza, as well we have vaccines for a few of the organisms that cause sepsis. Miller says that the medical community believes that vaccines are the reason that none of the top 5 causes of are infectious. He even agrees but only briefly with the general consensus by saying,
There is growing evidence that this is so, but perhaps not quite in the way conventional medical wisdom would have it.
He fails to demonstrate what is not quite the way conventional medical wisdom would have it. At least I couldn’t find it in the article. Based on his article Miller may not like the risks posed by vaccines (debatable) but the evidence of their efficacy is not easily refuted.