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Last year in California, there was an outbreak of whooping cough that resulted in the deaths of 24 children. The cause? Parents who refuse vaccinations for their children.
-by Katie Morton
How Opt-Out Parents and Their Unvaccinated Kids Are a Deadly Threat to Us All
Seeded on Fri Dec 2, 2011 11:17 AM EST
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#1 - Fri Dec 2, 2011 11:18 AM ESTSnyderman says it's important to think beyond the health of your kids when considering immunizations:
Think about it this way: your mother who might be fighting breast cancer. Your sister with rheumatoid arthritis, another child with asthma. An unimmunized child is a walking Typhoid Mary who can put any of those immune-compromised people in an early grave. I personally think it is selfish not to think about that. We have to think about public health in a whole new way with immunizations.
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This is news to me, didn't know anyone could "opt-out" from getting those kids the immunizations that the school required also for public health reasons. Every school year we had to show current immunization cards to be allowed into school. How did this insane practice of opting-out start?
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#2 - Fri Dec 2, 2011 6:58 PM ESTSome states allow either religious or "philosophical" exemptions, sometimes both. It seems more and more people are availing themselves of them, thanks in part to the bogus link to autism.
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