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Eula Biss

American Writer

Born: 1977

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Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward

Most of us believe that dirt is good for our kids, but some of us are wary of the grass in the parks, which may or may not have been treated with toxic chemicals. Eula Biss

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Fears that formaldehyde from vaccines may cause cancer are similar to fears of mercury and aluminum, in that they coalesce around miniscule amounts of the substance in question, amounts considerably smaller than amounts from other common sources of exposure to the same substance. Eula Biss

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As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environment than from vaccination. This is true, too, of the aluminum that is often used as an adjuvant in vaccines to intensify the immune response. Eula Biss

My son is fully vaccinated, but there is one immunization on the standard schedule that he did not receive on time. This was meant to be his very first shot, the hep B administered to most babies immediately after birth. Eula Biss

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One of the mysteries of hep B immunization is that vaccinating only 'high risk' groups, which was the original public health strategy, did not bring down rates of infection. Eula Biss

Health Mysteries Down Strategy High Rates Risk Only Infection Did Which Public Public Health Original Groups Bring

Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are. Eula Biss

Me Research Our Citizens Some About Risk Like Most How Handle Did Irregular Ordinary Interesting Assessment

The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money. Eula Biss

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Nigeria and Pakistan are two countries that have had a lot of trouble with polio. And part of the reason is that there's a lot of political unrest, and people really distrust what the government is doing. That has an effect on people's health, and it has an effect on the health of children. Eula Biss

There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity. Eula Biss

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I think there's a temptation to try to think of people who don't vaccinate as a homogenous community, but I'm not convinced that's true. I'm not even sure that the word 'community' is totally accurate there, you know. Eula Biss

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If your child's going to ride in a car or go swimming or play soccer, all of those things involve risk. And if your child doesn't do any of those things, then they're probably sitting too much, and that involves risk, too. Eula Biss

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague. Eula Biss

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Our community of contagion really is a world community. Eula Biss

World Community Our Our Community Contagion Really

There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy. Eula Biss

Writing Some Could Journalism Pass Lot Essay Just

A vaccine introduces a small amount or a tempered version of the virus into the body - just enough to that the body is able to recognize it and deal with it when it encounters it again in the future. Eula Biss

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Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection. Eula Biss

Constitution Protection Minority Our Idea Around Got Built

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine. Eula Biss

Side Risk Blood Effects Than Getting Tiny Bigger Vaccine Number

In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price. Eula Biss

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