This morning's New York Times has piece by Donald G. McNeil, Jr., headlined Vaccine Delays in Poorer Nations Raise Health Risks for Infants.

Let's put aside for a moment the author (who wrote that awful article on the Somalis) and the premise (in fact, even slight delays in vaccines lower the risk of asthma and probably autism), and go straight to this golden nugget: "In the first nine months of life, the World Health Organization recommends vaccines for tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and measles."

My, my: Isn't that pretty much what the U.S. vaccine schedule was before the autism epidemic -- and before Big Pharma got ahold of it and added HepB at birth, and the MR to the M, and the shot for the dreaded Pox (chickenpox, that is), and rotavirus, and on and on?

We don't give TB shots, so doing exactly what WHO says to would leave us with the DPT, which has been around since the 1940s, polio vaccine and a monovalent measles shot (which is what Andy Wakefield suggested and Merck just quit making as a single dose).

Just exactly WHO is anti-vaccine? Not us!