It is becoming more common for parents to refuse vaccinations for their children, to prevent rare but serious side effects. However, this refusal of inoculations has meant the rate of cases of whooping cough then becomes much higher – to the point where children who do not receive that particular vaccine are 23 times more likely to become ill with whopping cough.
One argument parents give in favor of skipping shots is that if all of a child’s peers get inoculated, then they won’t be able to transmit the virus to their child. This phenomenon is known as herd immunity. This argument does not hold true for whooping cough, and so vaccine refusal is putting these children at a real and serious risk. Read more…
No one likes them, especially kids, but vaccinating your child is one of the best ways to keep them healthy. Regardless of what stories you might have heard, immunizations are safe-much safer than the chance of getting the disease they are preventing
Prior to 1963, the year the measles vaccine was introduced in Canada- 300, 000 Canadian children were struck by the disease that left one in a thousand dead every year, and another one in a thousand with brain damage. Now that number has dropped 99.9%
For those who have a phobia of needles there’s good news! Researchers are developing ways to make these vaccinations less uncomfortable, including no-needle vaccines and combination vaccines.
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