The needle nuts are at it again — and this time, they’re pushing a dangerous vaccine on babies for a disease you shouldn’t worry about in the first place.
The feds have signed off on a plan to give Menactra, a vaccine that’s supposed to prevent invasive meningococcal disease, to babies as young as nine months old.
The condition strikes just 2,500 Americans a year, killing 300 — putting the risk of death at literally one in a million. Health officials claim the Guillain-Barré risk is small… but get this: The World Health Organization says the odds of getting the syndrome following a Menactra vaccination are 1.25 in a million.
In other words, the risk of getting Guillain-Barré syndrome from the vaccine is actually slightly greater than the overall risk of dying of the disease the shot is supposed to (but might not) prevent.
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