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Giving up vaccines brings back serious diseases

During the past years, diseases that were thought to have been eradicated have started spreading again because people have refused to be vaccinated.

Giving up vaccines brings back serious diseases
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Articol de Răzvan Stancu, 11 Noiembrie 2011, 10:47

The Health Ministry Secretary of State, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, mentions rubella and flu among the diseases contracted by a large number of people..

"Giving up vaccines causes some illnesses to spread again, like rubella, which unfortunately has been contracted by young people", the Ministry of Health Secretary of State, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, declared during a meeting at the Matei Balş National Institute for Infectious Diseases.

"Vaccination has stopped mass epidemics, including poliomyelitis, whooping cough, smallpox, rubella and measles", Prof. Adrian Streinu Cercel also said.

"For example, in 1979 the first abolished disease was rubella. Afterwards, people did not want to continue receiving vaccines and in 1995 rubella was contracted by numerous people again", Prof. Adrian Streinu-Cercel declared during the festive days of the Matei Balş National Institute for Infectious Diseases.

With flu is the exact same thing, according to the Secretary of State, who mentioned that because of genetic mutations and also of resistance to some treatments, people could never know when the next pandemic rise would break out.

"People refuse to be vaccinated vaccines and say that the swine influenza pandemic has only caused 463 300 deaths. Because of intense traveling, genetic mutations and resistance to some treatments, we cannot know when the next pandemic will break out. It is better to be prepared, rather than be taken by surprise", the Ministry of Health Secretary of State said.

Lately, infectious diseases have become real "acid test for modern society", including severe acute respiratory syndrome, avian flu, swine influenza, viral hemorrhagic fevers, Lyme disease, parasitic disease and the awful expansion of the antibiotic resistance phenomenon.

"The coexisting natural calamities, such as global warming, earthquakes, tsunamis, amplify the negative effect on infectious diseases", Adrian Streinu- Cercel declared. He also mentioned that "the world is dealing with numerous cases of tuberculosis, many of them resistant to various drugs".

Translated by: Angelica Ţăpoca
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University

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