The vaccination/anti-vaccination argument continues.
I admit I don't completely understand it.
When I was young (and dinosaurs ruled the Earth) there were no vaccines available for many of these diseases.
Children went to school, measles, mumps and chicken pox ravaged the schools, all children caught them (often one after the other), the children then became immunised and the only ones we felt concerned about were those few who didn't because the diseases were known to hit adults harder.
For children in those days the diseases were often more good than bad: A couple of days not feeling well and being spoilt followed by a week of Dr Paul and Portia Faces Life until it was unfortunately deemed you were risk free and sent back to school.
Of course now days Portia Faces Life and Dr Paul would be replaced by the Cartoon Network and the Disney Channel.
Todays children miss out on so much!
Maybe the anti-vax crowd have a point.
Maybe if every child is allowed to get the disease and develop natural immunity the effect of measles etc. will actually be minimised and children, health wise at least, will become hardier.
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