>> My kids had the full round of immunizations (though Solomon had chicken pox long before there was a vaccine). I'd do the same if I had it to do over again.
>>
>>Thanks - that seems to be the consensus. I actually didn't know until recently that there WAS a vaccine against chicken pox. Glad I got my week off from school in the first grade before they came up with the vaccine (got to watch the greatest kids show of all time, the Banana Splits)
>
>Have a read of this. The whole vaccines cause autism started pretty much with the ex-bunny Jenny McCarthy using Oprah's show to spread the 'gospel'.
>
>http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=497

Actually, the autism-vaccine stuff started with a study that turns out to have been a fraud. I don't have the link, but I don't think it's hard to find.

Tamar