[angcat]

The Mexicans are not vaccinated.

[Kozak]

Stand by for a load of mindless anti vaccine drivel and pseudo science that is headed your way.

[CodeToad]

There are so many conspiracy theorists who think such treatments cause other problems and scream anytime anyone mentions such things. I don’t know if you can elect to have your children immunized but I’d do it.

[socialismisinsidious]

ping

[Calpernia]

As much merit as Glenn Reynolds point has, the pharmaceutical companies also have to be held liable for their lobbying of politicians to stack vaccine requirements onto children that aren’t needed.

[autumnraine]

Illegal. Immigration.

When I had to take my children back to the doctor to get vaccinated for three more viruses, I asked why they added them. The doctor said too many immigrants from Mexico were bringing in old diseases that needed to be stopped. I said spefically Mexico and he said yes, that is what the memo from the CDC said.

[socialismisinsidious]

Religious or new-age beliefs may also factor into the decision: The San Diego outbreak spread in a school where nearly 10 percent of the students had been given personal-belief exemptions from the vaccination requirement.

Religion isn't that common of a reason to not vaccinate BUT people know they can use religion as a way to become exempt so they lie.

It's like anything....headlines scream half truths to sell papers and most people don't have the knowledge or inclination to read past the hype. Fear sells papers and people react to it.

[devane617]

because we have allowed ourselves to turn into a third-world country with an influx of mexicans and those from south of the border...we are having a big problem here in DFW because of foul water in swimming pools...it is getting worse...proportional to the influx of mexicans

[GOYAKLA]

Thanks for you post. At the age of ten(1946)I had 2 buddies age 6 & 8 who had Polio. One was in an iron lung for a year or so. The other was in a full plaster body cast for almost a year and had a bad leg the rest of his life. Their recoveries were slow and painful.
Since the Polio vaccines were effective, millions of people have completely forgotten about that terrible disease.
My two sons and two grandsons have always taken the reccomended vaccines and have never had any adverse reactions. Because there are some small percentage of sad stories (re; Don Imus)the modern liberal ideas are don’t take the shots and all will be well. That is a new form of Russian roulette.

[Hyzenthlay]

I think people who don’t vaccinate their kids against dangerous diseases are stupid - I got pretty much all the vaccines, nothing bad ever happened as a result except some mild symptoms after my flu and pnuemonia shots. Granted, I didn’t get a chicken pox vaccine, either because it didn’t exist when I was that young or I got it before I would have been vaccinated (I was well under a year old), and I’m holding off on the HPV vaccine until it’s been around for longer, but otherwise I got everything and I’m perfectly healthy.

The thing I’m confused about is the college vaccines. My brother and I both got Hepatitis B shots, but only my school required a TB test, and only his school required a meningitis vaccine... I really didn’t get it.

[austinmark]

Two Words.........

ILLEAGLE ALIENS !

[arthurus]

I am generally in favor of vaccintion with one hard exception for myself and that is influenza. The only serious cases of flu I have ever had followed the only two flu shots I ever had. I won't măke that mistake again.

[wintertime]

Keeping a society functioning requires a lot of behind-the-scenes work by people who don’t usually get a lot of attention—sanitation engineers, utility linemen, public health nurses, farmers, agricultural chemists and so on.
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Gee! I thought government teachers were the most important people in children's lives. ( sarc)

[Clemenza]

Because vaccinations cause AUTISM! That Kennedy kid told me, so it must be so! /Sarcasm