Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk

Posted by samzenpus on Friday August 24, 2012 @12:09AM from the have-some-mumps dept.

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:Vaccines should be mandatory. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-24 00:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I dont think you understand how vaccination works, its not a 100% guarantee, it improves the odds of not getting something, and thus its able to completely surpress a disease if it has no hosts it can survive on. When unvacinated people are introduced then are lowering the odds for those vacinated.
Think before you post.