http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/201...ak-in-ohio-leads-amish-to-reconsider-vaccines
Measles Outbreak In Ohio Leads Amish To Reconsider Vaccines
When children start dying, groups that reject immunizations begin to change their minds. Sad that it takes that to combat the "objections" of various tragically misguided groups.
The other group that is quite vulnerable in the U.S. are illegal immigrants, who seldom have recommended vaccinations, and will usually not take advantage of free clinics for their kids.
Infants and young children are not cloistered at home anymore-- they are taken everywhere in society. EVERY young baby is vulnerable to the diseases that can be spread by the unvaccinated who travel freely around the world, and in our society. We should all be concerned about that. I sure am.
It is a huge frustration within healthcare. I don't blame clinics for re-considering patients who reject vaccinations. Can you imagine taking a small infant into your regular family medicine clinic, or pedes clinic, and having that infant contract a previously eradicated disease like measles from an unvaccinated person in the waiting room??
This is a big, big problem in healthcare, and for all of our country.
And I will add this to the above. I do not believe any of us should be "politically correct" about pretending to "respect" or "accept" or "tolerate" people's rejection of vaccination on grounds of ignorance/ quackery belief, or some misguided, and IMO, ridiculous "religious" belief. The stakes for
everyone in society, legal and illegal, religious and unreligious, are simply too high. It is beyond comprehension that previously eradicated diseases are re-emerging due to such profound ignorance, IMO.