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Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Last week, the French Health Ministry announced plans to make 11 vaccines mandatory for young children by 2018. French law currently mandates three vaccines -- diphtheria, tetanus, and polio -- for children under the age of two. The government's proposal would expand that list to include eight other vaccines -- including those against Hepatitis B, whooping cough, and measles -- that were previously only recommended. The proposal, which is to be presented to lawmakers by the end of this year, comes amid an ongoing measles outbreak across Europe, which the World Health Organization (WHO) attributed to low immunization rates. Italy passed a similar decree in May, requiring children to receive 10 vaccines as a condition for school enrollment. Germany, while stopping short of a mandate, has moved to tighten its laws on child immunization. But some experts question whether a vaccination mandate will sway public opinion in France, where distrust in vaccines has risen alarmingly in recent years. In a survey published last year, 41 percent of respondents in France disagreed with the statement that vaccines are safe -- the highest rate of distrust among the 67 countries that were surveyed, and more than three times higher than the global average.
Make me, you fat raghead redneck.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I think this is brilliant!
Not only will it not impact measles measurably, since the vaccine is not effective enough to get to the required R0 of 94% to achieve herd immunity...
It's also going to kill off the 6% of the population that's immunocompromised in France, who can't tolerate vaccination, and it'll kill off an additional 2% of the population with egg allergies, who can't tolerate the culture medium cross-contamination in the vaccines.
Way to go, Measles! 8% of France! Even the Nazis, in WW II were only able to kill off 1.37% of the French!
Yes, the above was sarcasm; you should get vaccinated for measles, and anything else you can tolerate the vaccine for.
But if you think you are saving other people from Measles or Pertussis, you are going to need to attend remedial math classes.