Your friends may want to take a stroll through an old cemetery that has
graves from the 19th century or earlier. There are many many children's
graves. I would suppose that most of these kids died from infectious
diseases, many of which are now preventable by vaccination, and/or
antibiotics.
Judy Dilworth, M.T. (ASCP)
Microbiology
Nicholas Landau wrote:
> I wish I had you on hand when I argue with my anthroposophist friends.
> They think it will corrupt their children to be immunized against polio.
> All I can tell them is stories from my parents' generation about polio epidemics.