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Darwins +489/-3  I know I am pro-vaccine. I haven't had a
neighbor die of tetanus since 1954. I haven't had a friend die
of polio since 1955. I have a friend who is very much alive
because she received the rabies vaccine after being bitten by an
infected racoon. The things that don't have good vaccines, like
malaria, affected many friends who ended up in SE Asia during
the war and my niece, who traveled into the jungles of South
America and contracted it there. But she didn't get many other
diseases because there were vaccines to prevent them.  My friend
Nancy is deaf because her mother contracted Rubella, a variety
of measles, when pregnant. No vaccine existed at the time. Now
it does. But how many cases of that disease do we get every year
because people are frickin' afraid of side-effects? And how many
additional deaf kids do we get? Not many, I hope. But that
number could be virtually zero.  Recent studies show that people
who get rubella have face