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."

Comments

Re:They're stupid

[Lumpy]

I think there is a Vaccine for that. Maybe that is the problem, the parents missed their vaccinations?

Re:Vaccines should be mandatory.

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

No way!

Those that are vaccinated should be safe anyway.
If they are not, then there's no reason to vaccinate.

I've heard that mathematicians working at the cutting edge of theoretical statistics have recently hypothesized the existence of probabilities other than "0" and "1". It's pretty cool stuff, with potential implications in all sorts of areas...

The irony

[Anonymous Coward]

"They're stupid"

"And that's why they need educated."

Oh, the irony.

Re:Vaccines should be mandatory.

[Minwee]

Yeah, you know who else used logical fallacies to support his arguments?

Hitler.

Re:They're stupid

[HornWumpus]

HPV causes more mouth cancer then chewing tobacco.

I gave up chew, but I will never give up chewing.