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Anyone need more proof that a national immunization program works and the consequences of what not having is need look no further than this.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Geier

Bob

Yes, and I bet nobody told you at the time that you could die from them either like they have been in Samoa.

Bob

Very sorry to hear what has happened to your grandson.

Bob

Well, if it was effective before the wide spread use of vaccines, I see no reason it can't work today. That is the same thing as having enough common sense to keep sick kids at home so they don't...

That is exactly why the wealthy countries should look very favourable on ensuring there is a viable immunization program in those other countries. With immigrants, they should be required to have all...

They used to quarantine you to your house here many years ago if you had a communicable disease. My mother in-law was taking nursing in the late 1930s and could not return home till the quarantine of...

To put that into perspective, that same out break in the US with an estimated population of 330 million for 2019 would have caused:

roughly 6,600,000 infections/cases

roughly 115,500 deaths...

That is exactly it. It is about herd/group immunity levels. The higher the number of people vaccinated the higher the herd/group immunity level is. The reverse is also true and why I originally...

Yup, there is not a vaccine for everything. Just hope they can keep any future outbreaks of Ebola isolated to Africa because there is not a lot of vaccines out there for that one too. With the speed...

During the 1918 Spanish Flu global pandemic there was no vaccine available but I imagine there were homeopaths even then. That would make comparisons to flu vaccines introduced much later very...

With the flu you risk death especially if you are old, have other chronic health issues or are very young. I could care less if you get the flu or not. That said and everyone being free to make their...

No matter how you cut it more people have died from the actual diseases before vaccines were introduced than from being vaccinated or side effects from a vaccine. To me it really is that simple....

Not having witnessed first hand the devastation caused by disease outbreaks cuts no mustard with me as an excuse not to get vaccinated. That is unless you are an animal who can't read history. It is...

Lots of noise has been made this year about the come back measles is making around the world. The latest news out of Samoa should give anyone pause who has doubts about the benefits of the MMR...