@Julie, I would DEARLY love to see your sources for this. []Citation needed.

Wow, I havent really thought about vaccinations that hard before. I was vaccinated as a child, got the mumps about 4 times, got the measles, and chicken pox too, but I think I would still look into vaccinating my own children. I didnt have any side effects or complications from the diseases, and that could be thanks to the vaccines. (I dont know for sure, Im not a doctor)

It's a personal choice, and one that should not be argued against from either side. Everyone has their own childrens best interests at heart, and no body wants their child to suffer unnecessarily. So I say, ask around, check the stats, ask your own parents and grandparents if you can, and go with your gut instinct

Vaccines are made from: mucus of infected children (whooping cough), excrement from typhoid victims (typhoid), belly-scabs and pus from festering wounds on calves (smallpox) and until recently the diseased kidneys of monkeys (polio). Im sick of being made to feel stupid or uneducated by not vaccinating my daughter but statistics in doctors own journals speak for themselves considering most of the people who say no to immunisations have a minimum of a bachelors degree. I find it sickening that the government is even contemplating making immunisations compulsary for children to attend state school in NZ!!!

I trust all those who are firmly against immunisation due to the inherent risk are also against putting their childrren in seatbelts or child restraints. After all wearing a seatbelt puts you at risk from injuries to your spleen, liver, mesentery, aorta and so forth in an accident.

Seatbelts are clearly another PR exercise run by those out to make money from making seatbelt wearing compulsory, like car manufacturers.

And don't even get me started on airbags! Many reports have shown that children can be killed from airbags being deployed and even adults can be seriously injured!

Stop this blatant profiteering on things that may cause harm to you or your baby, have an open mind people!

Maybe you could take the natural route and place a feather pillow in front of you if you crash. Or the homeopathic route and carry a bottle of Crash-B-Gone in your car.

Do some research people, make sure you don't wear a seat belt or make your child wear one and make sure you airbag is deactivated!

You'll be doing all of us a favour.

How can non vaccinated (especially those that ACTIVELY refuse) be a threat to the vaccinated population, if vaccines protect? lol. -disease is around all the time and within highly vaccinated populations. Just give the symptoms another label and the disease has gone! Magic! example: non vaccinated= deadly measles. vaccinated= a viral infection.

If there is a benefit for vaccinated, then they alone will get such, but there is nothing out there that proves such, especially when compareing vaccinated with the healthy non-vaccinated.

vaccinated are a threat to themselves and it is way past time they wake up! We all shouldn't have to be sprayed with such toxic stuff just to please those that fear disease in the first place, yet dump their kids in kindys and such other places when disease is around. If you really fear such go and live in a box. When kindys get a disease within them, and everyone is vaccinated, everyone is happy spreading and contracting such diseases and it is not an issue, but the movement one walks in, not vaccinated it becomes a scene!. Little don't they realise most vaccinated wouldn't be immune anyway. A vaccine will not stop one from getting or spreading disease.

Clarification: By 'this "movement"' in my earlier post (Grant ??? 00:26 AM | Tuesday , 27 January 2009), I am referring to the "anti-vaccine movement". I would hope that this is clear from the remainder of my comment in any event. (What I get for commenting in the wee hours!)

People in this post describing themselves as "researchers" should take the trouble to read Richard Feynman's talk on "cargo cult science" (google) before labelling themselves as researchers, which they emphatically are not. My concern is more simple :If the results are so appalling, what the Hell is the Govt doing funding the Immunisation Advisory Centre? If my business performed as badly as that group of shiny bums I would out of a job in a month!

Well! since the immunization rate in the US so much higher, and their INFANT MORTALITY rate for the same period is higher as well - this is an interesting report!

For the same time period, the US Infant Mortality rate is estimated at 6.3 deaths/1,000 live births with the rates for males higher than females. male: 6.95 deaths/1,000 live births female: 5.62 deaths/1,000 live births

Must be healthier to live unvaccinated in New Zealand than to be vaccinated in the US!

395,000 children under the age of 5 die of measles each year worldwide. Another 257,000 newborn babies die each year from tetanus, because their mothers aren't immunised. That is one child dying every TWENTY seconds from diseases that are completely preventable with vaccinations. When people like posters 1-5 are presented with these FACTS, they often say things like: "well that is in other countries, we don't have to worry about that in New Zealand". The answer to that is the only reason why thousands of children aren't dying each year from measles in New Zealand is down to the thousands of sensible parents who DO immunise their children and hold the herd immunity level just above where it needs to be to prevent a catastrophe. Parents who don't immunise their children for whatever ridiculous conspiracy theory they come up with, should at least have the common decency to show gratitude to those that do and thus prevent their unimmunised child from contracting a potentially fatal disease.

I hope that parents who read your comment take notice. If they realised that vaccination is an organised criminal enterprise, they would never hand over their babies or their children to get them injected with this assorted toxic filth. Vaccines have never prevented any diseases, let alone saved any lives. Google the infectious diseases graphs on 'Health sentinel' if you don't believe it. I also recommend the 5-part youtube series 'Vaccination: Miracle or Mayhem?'and the youtube video 'Creating a nation of zombies', which features US neurosurgeon and health educator Dr. Russell Blaylock MD.