More Parents Believe Vaccines Are Unnecessary
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According to CBS News,
A U.S. survey has found that pediatricians are encountering more parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated, mostly because they don’t see the point of vaccines. The most common reason for not vaccinating a child was found to be that “Vaccines are unncessary because the diseases they prevent have been wiped out in the United States.” Dr. Claire McCarthy said, “Thanks to the protection provided by vaccines, parents haven’t seen the ravages that can be wrought on children by diseases like chicken pox, measles, meningitis and polio. We are so good at what we do with vaccines tht the danger of vaccine-preventable illness can seem not quite real to this generation of parents, and that’s definitely getting in the way. This is very frightening to us as pediatricians because in this global world, their child absolutely could get polio.”
Well, hey…to each his own.
