I understand that in some cases measles can have horrible outcomes, but so can too much dependence on vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
There has to be a balance. I get it that some parents choose not to get the measles vaccination. What I don't get is why the gov has let the US be over-run by people who spread these diseases. And I don't like at all the media one-sided bullying instead of an honest discussion of which vaccines are really necessary, and what people and the government can do to thwart outbreaks of this and other diseases. And I don't like our being told that vaccines are 100% safe because it isn't true...nothing's 100% safe.
Keep in mind this is all going on not long after the gov made it a policy to bring people into the US with Ebola because our superior medical ability can handle it. It's all a bit hypocritical.
2) The HPV is problematic, and should not be compared to the MMRP vaccine. Parents should consider the HPV vaccine according to its merits and drawbacks, but not be forced or coerced into using it. Likewise: the meningitis vaccine now available and often recommended for college freshmen. I think that's a pretty good idea, too--but enough are getting the vaccine that your own unvaccinated child, when he goes off to college filled with germ, dirty dormitories, will have much less chance of contracting this debilitating illness, too.
3) Lawyers are making patsies of parents distraught over autism, using very poor science and very high emotion. The public health consequences will be dire if they succeed. May scorpions infest their tassel loafers.
4) None of these "childhood" ailments come alone. They often come with other pathologies…pneumonia, encephalitis, "brain fevers"--
5) Pause sometime, and be happy that we don't see little children in leg braces from polio. It was a very good thing, that polio vaccine. We are close to getting rid of it in the whole world..making it extinct. I am grateful.