Vaccinations I'm sure she is wrong.. Whilst modern methods of production may and do produce harmfull vaccinations, the principle behind natural immunity, and artificially handed on.. Well proven. People who got harmless cowpox, never got smallpox.. end story.. The problem is does our interference with natural selection, where the weak die, produce a long line of weaklings susceptable to all sorts of new deseases.. when I was a kid, the philosophy was to let the baby eat dirt.. He built up immunity.. Philip. That?s not the only problem, Philip. Disease and genetic degradation: Survival of the least misfit Another fallacy of the mainstream modernists ? beside a rising true life expectancy ? is the claim that medical advances have disease and health problems under control. The following statistics belie this position. Around the world: Infectious diseases now cause about 16 million global deaths each year, a result of changes in human behavior and mutations in pathogens. Twenty well-known diseases--including tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and cholera--have reemerged or spread since 1973, often in more virulent and drug-resistant forms. At least 30 previously unknown disease agents have been identified since 1973, including HIV, Ebola, hepatitis C, and Nipah virus, for which no cures are available. Within the United States: Annual infectious disease-related death rates in the United States have nearly doubled to some 170,000 annually after reaching an historic low in 1980. The next major infectious disease threat to the United States may be, like HIV, a previously unrecognized pathogen. Although multi-drug therapies have cut HIV/AIDS deaths by two-thirds to 17,000 annually since 1995, emerging microbial resistance to drugs and continued new infections will sustain the threat. TB, exacerbated by multi-drug resistant strains and HIV/AIDS co-infection, has come back. Microbial Adaptation and Resistance Infectious disease microbes are constantly micro-evolving. As a result, an expanding number of strains of diseases--such as TB, malaria, and pneumonia--will remain difficult or virtually impossible to treat. Influenza viruses, in particular, are particularly efficient in their ability to survive and genetically change, sometimes into deadly strains. HIV also displays a high rate of genetic mutation that will present significant problems What follows is a table of virtually annual appearances of new pathogens that have emerged to plague humanity. It includes the new classification of prion, a mis-shapen protein that destroys the nervous system of both man and beast. West nile virus is too recent to be listed. Examples of Pathogenic Microbes and the Diseases They Cause, Identified Since 1973 Year Microbe Type Disease 1973 Rotavirus Virus Infantile diarrhea 1977 Ebola virus Virus Acute hemorrhagic fever 1977 Legionella pneumophila Bacterium Legionnaires' disease 1980 Human T-lymphotrophic virus I (HTLV 1) Virus T-cell lymphoma/leukemia 1981 Toxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus Bacterium Toxic shock syndrome 1982 Escherichia coli O157:H7 Bacterium Hemorrhagic colitis; hemolytic uremic syndrome 1982 Borrelia burgdorferi Bacterium Lyme disease 1983 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Virus Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) 1983 Helicobacter pylori Bacterium Peptic ulcer disease 1989 Hepatitis C Virus Parentally transmitted non-A, non-B liver infection 1992 Vibrio cholerae O139 Bacterium New strain associated with epidemic cholera 1993 Hantavirus Virus Adult respiratory distress syndrome 1994 Cryptosporidium Protozoa Enteric disease 1995 Ehrlichiosis Bacterium Severe arthritis? 1996 nvCJD Prion New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease(Mad Cow) 1997 HVN1 Virus Influenza 1999 Nipah Virus Severe encephalitis Source: US Institute of Medicine, 1997; WHO, 1999. The Human Degenome? The human genome seems to have an increasing susceptibility to various maladies: Approximately 5 million cancer deaths worldwide In USA cancer-related deaths increased about 60% in 22 years or 3%/yr. Approximately 4 million Americans now have Alzheimer?s Disease ; 14 million Americans will have AD by 2050 unless a cure or prevention is found. Darwin claimed that species evolve to replace prior ones via natural selection. The EPA(Environmental Protection Agency) claims that a thousand species die out each year. New ones observed each year? Zero Do the math: Since evolution is built on the Uniformitarian Principle, this speciecide must have been going on for 3 billion years, the MS age for life. Putting the UP together with current data, that means 3 TRILLION species have gone extinct since life began, and NO new species have been formed. Evolutionary theory thus predicts a net gain of MINUS 3 * 109 species. ?He makes fools of the wise?. He does, verily. Is the problem microbial adaptation/resistance? Human gene degeneration? How about both! Robert