The United States of Shame

Read again. I said nothing about the effectiveness of vaccines. I was referring to how today's vaccines are contaminated with toxic materials.

http://pediatrics.about.com/od/immunizat...aditvs.htm
And I'm saying to have any doubts about vaccines on account of ignorable levels of additives is laughable, woefully ignorant, and horrifyingly dangerous.
Some highlights from the above article:

The most well-known preservative in vaccines is thimerosal, which was once thought to possibly be linked to autism.

Although no link to autism or other conditions was ever found, because of concerns that thimerosal could be harmful and because alternatives to thimerosal are now available, according to the FDA, "thimerosal has been removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger, with the exception of the inactivated influenza vaccine."

mercury has been removed from most vaccines

Formaldehyde is present in some of the vaccines on the childhood immunization schedule, including the flu shot, polio vaccine and DTaP vaccine, because it works to eliminate the harmful effects of these bacterial toxins and makes the viruses unable to replicate or reproduce themselves. The very small amount of formaldehyde that is left over in the vaccines that are given to kids is less than the amount naturally found in children and much less than that amount safely given to animals in research studies.

Unfortunately, vaccine additives do sometimes cause reactions, with the most common being allergic reactions to gelatin, the antibiotic neomycin and eggs

Scary eggs and gelatin!

it was much more common for children to get sick from contaminated vaccines before the use of preservatives

Seriously. Immunizations are the sh'it and people who don't get them when they are available endanger their entire community.