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1.0 out of 5 starsAn encyclopedia for diseases and alternative solutions
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2019
To be honest, I bought this sort of blindly, since the "look inside" feature did not give a very good sampling of the book's content. I'm disgusted by the piling on of vaccines and the coercive techniques used to force compliance with whatever-under-the-sun vaccine lobbyists manage to get on the "recommended" (ha-ha) schedule. I hoped to get some inside information about how people who decide not to vaccinate approach a couple of specific situations that might reasonably be encountered: 1) what to do if you are a female who has reached adulthood and never contracted chicken pox, and therefore risk the disease while pregnant and 2) what about infants who are exposed to whooping cough? There was nothing in this book that even came close to addressing an action plan for these two situations. Also, there is no mention of what a person would do if contracting rubella during pregnancy. I agree that there are tons of ways for the average person to protect themselves from severe illness from most of the diseases, but. . .this ignores some huge elephants in the room. I can't see how an infant should not be vaccinated for pertussis. I can't see how it is safe to skip MMR and varicella vaccines if you are female and have not contracted these diseases by adulthood. This book did not tell me anything I wanted to know.
