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AST Publishing House removes from the sale of the Blogger Aantonio Book “vaccinate or not to vaccinate? Or, well, think, an injection! Myths about vaccination. " They will not reprint the book about the dangers of vaccination, but they managed to successfully sell the first circulation. In the column for “such cases”, the doctor Alexei Kashcheev argues what literature can be found in the “Popular Medicine” section and where the line between censorship and protection passes

The enlightened Russian community infrequently has reasons for joy, and the reasons themselves are quite modest: it is generally possible to wrest some illegally arrested from the mouth of a law enforcement crocodile, then to ensure the dismissal of a whispering average official. The current event is more exotic and therefore more curious.

After the shaft of criticism in the professional medical community, social networks and the media, as well as the reactions of the State Duma, the AST Publishing House decided to stop the sale of the book “vaccinated or not vaccinated? Or, well, think, an injection! Myths of vaccination "of the blogger Aantonio, prudently hiding his real surname behind the pseudonym.

Aantonio is a very successful man-brand, an almost spiritual leader of the anti-inferiorities who at the same time learned to speak in a pseudo-acting language an unemotional and with the likeness of argumentation. In the era, it is not surprising that it is not surprising that it is beneficial for a large publishing house to publish such a book. The STATE of Vaccine Confidence survey showed that 28% of Russians do not trust vaccines, so you can assess the size of the future target audience of the book in numbers. The book of Magi in the bestsellers. But something went wrong-finally-and the release of the second circulation was suspended before the decision of a certain expert council. Note that the first was perfectly sold out, the publisher will probably not remain at a loss. According to Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization , on a planet of 14 million deaths per year, for which infectious diseases are responsible, about three million are caused by diseases that can be prevented by immunization, and a decrease in the frequency of diseases warned by vaccines compared to pre -vaccine era compiled 99.43% (CDC, Atlanta). Vaccination for its civilizational value can be safely compared with such phenomena as electrification or invention of a steam engine-thus, a focused rejection of it resembles a refusal of a wheel or mobile phone (which, by the way, is not observed in anti-inferiorities).

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In the most “rational” arguments of opponents of immunization, it seems to be a high risk of post -vaccination complications, from a scientific point of view, they can’t withstand any criticism: so, the World Health Organization evaluates the risk of anaphylactic reactions during hepatitis B vaccination, tetanus or pertussis, diphtheria (ATS vaccine) as one case for 600 - 600 900 thousand, 100 thousand - two and a half million and 50 thousand immunizations, respectively. The vast majority of even these rare reactions are curable.

What can we say about arguments like the presence of mercury in vaccines and other toxic substances are already beliefs that go far into the folklore of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, when heavy metals were widely used for treatment from various diseases. Refusing to vaccinate, people not only “parasitize” on vaccinated, which constitute collective immunity and thereby prevent the development of epidemics, but also take responsibility for the health of a child, which is not capable of independent decision not only legally, but also purely physically. The latter personally, as a parent, is especially incomprehensible. In my opinion, it is enough once in everyday life to witness a serious illness of my child, for example, the flu, in order to subsequently be prepared for anything, just to prevent this.

Naturally, I am glad that the publishing house stopped sales of a harmful and dangerous book. Each of the practitioners regularly sees people who share the values ​​of the anti-inferiorities, and at the same time numerous medical (and not very) related delusions-homeopathy, HIV-dissidentiality, energy parasites and much more. But it is the anti -inferications that are the most massive and at the same time the most socially dangerous phenomenon from many other beliefs growing from quackery and ignorance. In Russia, this movement receives additional moral support due to the imperfection of the healthcare system, problems with domestic vaccines and a low culture of the preventive direction in medicine. But globally, this did not change the situation.

The book of Aantonio is far from the first deadly pseudo -scientific book sold on Russian shelves and calling for extreme practices related to its health and others . I think that she will not be able to compete with circulations with the works of the adept of folk medicine Gennady Petrovich Malakhov, who has been healing the elderly population of our country in urine and had for many years to have at their disposal not only the pages of books, but also central television; Or Sergey Sergeyevich Konovalov, bioenergy and academician of his own academy, parasitizing on mentally unhealthy people, faced with serious illnesses.

In addition to such market headliners, in any bookstore you can buy many of their colleagues without any problems. After all, it is enough to emblay a magic phrase “not a manual on medicine, we recommend that you turn to a specialist on a turning, so that the pamphlet will turn from weapons of mass defeat that, without violating any laws, you can put on a regiment in the“ Popular Medicine ”section and sold without age -related restrictions. But, like any doctor, I can easily give numerous examples when following their advice became fatal for the patient. Nevertheless, no one even thinks to stop their release - we, as it were, do not notice these shelves, only shrugging his shoulders in surprise, who, they say, we must be to be treated.

For example, a man of 62 years old.

A small clinical example

Patient A., 62 years old. Anamnesis: six years ago, he underwent surgery for colorectal cancer. Complaints: intensive pain in the legs, a decrease in force in the lower extremities (can be supported), the lack of independent urination, constipation, a decrease in body weight by 11 kilograms in three months, fever, poor health. Complaints are worried for seven months. He refused the actions recommended by oncologists. He used exclusively recommendations for popular medical literature in the field of urinotherapy, therapeutic starvation, enemas (niche system), and cleansing the body. Metastasis is inoperative, the patient died three weeks later from the pulmonary artery thromboembolism.

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I cannot agree with those of my colleagues who consider the state’s interference in the release of books about popular medicine and expects that the market should figure out and supplant unscrupulous participants. Here I will allow myself to be not too liberal. As far as I know, in a bookstore you can’t buy Adolf Hitler’s works or a manual assembly guide. Yes, those who will very much senior to read Main Kampf will certainly find a way to do this, by the way, they will be very disappointed with volumetric nudin. But nevertheless, the state’s intervention puts at least some filter on the path to getting anti-type nonsense into the minds of their citizens who do not vaccinate children, also citizens of our country, and thereby doom them (and others) to mortal risk.

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