A Tale of Two Sides: A Novel On Vaccines and Disease

Why doesn't mumps have it's very own chapter? Isn't it worth talking about like all the other diseases? Doesn't it make everyone sterile? JPR answers these questions, and more ... including the claim that the company that makes this vaccine faked its efficacy research and is now defending themselves in federal court. 

When another mumps outbreak strikes, one would expect Francine to be excited. After all, the media do their job well in getting their flock to line up for an extra dose of MMR -- just in case. But something has Francine worried, and those who fight for truth and transparency just won't go away. Will the public discover a possible dark truth behind the mumps vaccine before it's too late?

JPR exands on the real-life events that inspired this chapter, including his own experience with the California Legislature as he watched them create a law that would eventually allow school districts to remove all vaccine-injured children from schools. Will these kids be left by the wayside in every state, or will Americans stand up for the rights of these kids, and for children everywhere, and force their elected officials to do the right thing?

Federal law (IDEA law) guarantees full access to equal education for all children with special needs. States cannot discriminate against them and deny them entrance to school for any reason -- even those who don't continue vaccination due to vaccine injury. Now that many California school districts are choosing to break this federal law, and kick these kids out of schools, will other states follow suit? Will anyone in the public school system try to stand up for these children?

Find out more about JPR's real-life experience working in a hospital that inspired this chapter. 

Two moms, two babies, two nurses, two medical emergencies, and one doctor to straighten it all out. Find out what happens when two moms make very different choices for their babies and they both end up side by side, supporting each other. Which baby seems better off in the end? Which mom made the better choice? What happens when a cure is potentially worse than the disease? 

JPR takes you deeper into the topic of vaccinating premature babies. 

It seems as if giving premature babies all eight recommended vaccines right before they leave the NICU would be a great idea. After all, we can't send these fragile infants out into the germ-infested world without protection, can we? And these shots are just as safe for preemies as they are for full-size infants, right? Spend a morning with a team of NICU nurses, doctors, and parents, as they navigate this process. What you hear, and don't hear, behind the scenes may surprise you. 

JPR takes you deeper into tetanus and explores the worry that unvaccinating families have about this disease. What are your options when your child gets wounded? Should you get the vaccine, the immune globulin shot, or both? Does it depend on the severity of the wound? How do you decide? And what choice poses more statistical risk: getting every infant and childhood dose of the DTaP vaccine or letting a child grow up with the small risk that tetanus is someday going to strike? 

Everyone knows you are supposed to flush out and clean wounds thoroughly -- especially when you live on a farm. Everyone, that is, except young boys. Join the Walker family as they, and their small-town ER doctor, learn more than they ever wanted to know about tetanus: how exceedlingly rare it is, how to identify the symptoms, how to prevent tetanus if you aren't vaccinated, how to treat it when it does happen, and how the risk of the vaccine compares to the risk of the disease.