HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1967-02-23, Page 3VACCINATION URGED
BY TB ASSOCIATION
AL the C011adiall Ttlbercl110BIS
,11SSOCiati.011, LII.0 an.) gulling tired
01' reading that, the Association
is against 11C(.1„ the vaccine
which givos ;A) percent
protectioti against
It is ,hist. not So.
tuberculosis,
Dr. C. \V. Jeanes, executive
. secretary of the CTA, states that
'years and: years the Associat-
.has. Urged BOO vaccinations
for all tuberculin-negative boa-,
pital .staff, ntirs(1 in training, •
medical students, teenagers end •
.memhers of. households where
active. there is a person with
tuberenlosis.
This adds lip to some millions
of Canadians for whom vaccina-
tion is recommended who haVe
not been vaccinated,
And whY?Beeause they do not
want to be. vaccinated and this is
free country.
Quite a range of infectious
diseases ,bave been virtually
wiped out in Canada by immun-
ization — immunization of
infants whose cries of protest
l‘rere heard but not, 'heeded.
lfthe sante attitude could he
adopted with teenagers and they
could all be marched : along for
immunization there no doubt
that the incidence of tubercUle-
sis would drop sharply in the
nxt few years.
Since BOG provides 80 percent.
protection it. is reaSonable to
ask why the Canadian TB Assoc,
iation and its affiliates are not
conducting an all-ont cainpaign
to get art the tuberCutin negative
men, women and children in this
country vaecinated with it,
(Those who have been infected
and react to the test haVe aa
much protection as Can be ach-
ieved.)
Some idea of what ia inVolved
day be estimated by anyone
who will take the trouble of ask-
ing 100 people Mot at bridge
th.:, office, clubs., curling, bowl-
ing or in bitaes, trains or plan,es.
if they have been va,ceinated
,=inst "fht"
If two Or Mere have been, the
nnestioner has alluoat, certainly
int() a Medically SOphisticat-
ctiloais Os thousands of Canad,
"flit" are Many times greater than
the danger of contacting tube-
eniosis — as thouSands of (land-
tans learn every year, the itte4
hibiess of the vaccine ha8 been
deMonstrated, tilfe 11(7G it IS not
a guarantee --, hitt it: has a high
dogre o of effectiveness. Ts this
clnssified information being con-
coaled lost it be learned
enemy agents? From the mirmher
or pcople who go to their doctors
for "fln" vaceinatian, one woilld
'think so, A.clually, Ihe benefits of
ibp vneeine have been publicized,
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losis Association. It is also the program to get high school
view og the World Health, orgaul- students vaccinated. Where the
ation. 'effort ' preceded by a sound
A few, a very few Canadian ..!luctilional campa'jgn, the pro,
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wise of. immuidyirm children this
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becans r: infant's eotiselit is not
gsked.
TI happens, hoWevet. th8t
fi t-ire the ineidence of tnberet
1 ,-qg l‘vik.' the hest film, for tl(Y;
v-.crinalion is not in infancy hut
This is not only the
opinion Of tho orthridiem Tobittieo: VCRE4E01:11_,71MaMiliErl.NFETNP,TnigIPt!",laitirM1010.0,
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