I chose to not vaccinate my kids and my daughter has done the same.
To me, however, this issue is more about illegal immigrants than it is vaccinating children. If we didn’t have the schools full of immigrants from goodness knows where, without having been through the rigors of passing clean bill of health tests, we wouldn’t have a problem. We chose to home school as well, in order to avoid problems.
This is nonsensical. One of the reasons the third world has more disease is a lack of immunization.
Shouldn't illegals be healthier since they don't vaccinate?
The anti-vaxxer movement jumped the shark 10 years ago. No excuse for this type of stupidity in 2015.
I always think of German Measles when people say they have not had their kids vaccinated. Rubella in and of itself is a mild disease. Many patients are asymptomatic. The real danger is to an unborn child whose mother is in the first trimester of a pregnancy.
We haven’t heard much about Congenital Rubella Syndrome since the vaccine became available in 1969. Before that, rubella epidemics would hit every 6 to 9 years. With the epidemics would come a dramatic increase in Congenital Rubella Syndrome. It was not a rare occurrence.
It is one thing to decide against a vaccine if the consequences of that decision are confined to your own child. With Rubella, the consequences are on other people’s children.
1969 seems like a lifetime ago. I wonder how many people younger than I know how very real the fear was when a pregnant woman learned she had been exposed to German Measles.
The benefits from vaccines far outweigh the risks, IMHO.
My cousins got polio at a pool....so good luck with that.