Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk

New submitter haroldmandel writes in with a story about the increase of certain diseases in school-age children due to parents not having their kids vaccinated. "Parents nervous about the safety of vaccinations for their children may be causing a new problem: the comeback of their grandparents' childhood diseases, reports a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Despite the successes of childhood immunizations, wrote Penn Nursing researcher Alison M. Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, in the American Journal of Public Health, controversy over their safety has resulted in an increasing number of parents refusing to have their children vaccinated and obtaining legally binding personal belief exemptions against vaccinations for their children."

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Re:SCAREMONGERING.

[x1n933k]

I'm looking at a quick list of vaccinations for from my local clinic that range between 20$ and 120$. 5 millions kids in California seems like a nice chunk of change.

Re:They're stupid

[operagost]

Please explain for all the stupid people in the room how, if student A is vaccinated but student B is not, that this will make student A sick.

"Your freedom to swing your arm ends at my nose."

This means the exact opposite in this context unless you can prove that an unvaccinated individual can make a vaccinated one sick.