Re: Cancer is officially the number one cause of childhood death in US.

You have a lot of information, some of it is correct, much of it is out of date in relation where Planet Earth has been.

Both my parents and grandparents went through the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 when around 50 million people died worldwide and about 675,100 died in the USA.  The world population then was about half of what it is now so you can at least double those death figures.  (see below)

I myself remember polio epidemics and particularly the one from 1945 to 1949.  In those days, if you survived the disease you could easily end up in an iron lung because it incapacitated your breathing ability.  As you know FDR was a polio survivor and he couldn't walk without assistance, that's why you see many pictures of him either standing with his son who assisted him, or more generally sitting down.  Through the use of vaccines, polio has been all but eradicated world wide.

Those today who are refusing vaccines are being protected by those who do use them and have the potential to end up doing some personal harm or death for their lack of immunity.

Yes, vaccines do have leukemia in them but they have been cleaned up considerably in the past ten years and it is doubtful that anyone has been infected by them.

I personally remember an influenza epidemic in about 1945 and remember standing in line with my grandmother (who had been through the 1918-1919 pandemic) waiting to get my shot.  That was the same year in which we had a polio epidemic and I remember that too - before the polio vaccines.

Those who ignore vaccines today are playing Russian roulette.

http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/1918/the_pandemic

The Pandemic

Influenza Strikes

Throughout history, influenza viruses have mutated and caused pandemics or global epidemics. In 1890, an especially virulent influenza pandemic struck, killing many Americans. Those who survived that pandemic and lived to experience the 1918 pandemic tended to be less susceptible to the disease.

From Kansas to Europe and back again, wave after wave, the unfolding of the pandemic, mobilizing to fight influenza, the pandemic hits, protecting yourself, communication, fading of the pandemic.

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The Legacy of the Pandemic

No one knows exactly how many people died during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. During the 1920s, researchers estimated that 21.5 million people died as a result of the 1918-1919 pandemic. More recent estimates have estimated global mortality from the 1918-1919 pandemic at anywhere between 30 and 50 million. An estimated 675,000 Americans were among the dead.

Research, forgetting the pandemic of 1918-1919, scientific milestones, 20th century influenza or global pandemics.

Polio...................................................

http://www.eds-resources.com/poliotimeline.htm

1945 - World War II ends. Large epidemics of polio in the U.S. occur immediately after the war with an average of more than 20,000 cases a year from 1945 to 1949.