Here we are reviewing mounds of evidence regarding vaccinations and their potential link to autism.  No one can give us a straight answer, but leave it to our medical researchers to complicate things even more.  Now, there is a 5-in-1 vaccine that is supposedly safe and effective.  Researchers in Italy have come up with this wonderful invention, and they say it has mild side effects.  It is understandable that they may have a problem with a certain percentage of children not receiving all of the shots according to the recommended schedule, but is Hib a really big problem in Italy?  Couldn’t the good folks at the University of Ferrera try to address cancer, AIDS, premature labor, or another larger issue?  And, is the entire world going to be forced to use the 5-in-1, or can we still separate the shots if we want to - unlike the current situation with the MMR, where a parent cannot find an independent measles shot to make sure it doesn’t contain a mixing agent or preservative that will turn our children purple? 

Yahoo! brings us this story that I suspect was not intended to generate the reaction I have to it.  It is supposed to be a good thing, and it may well be very good in the long run.  I just have to question the judgement behind combining even more vaccines when we can’t handle the epidemic that we seem to have created from our last try at this.  On the plus side, maybe we have learned something, and this can be implemented more safely, but I can’t help a little skepticism.