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Bug Brain Simple: Vaccines work. Failure to vaccinate a child is neglect. [1]
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Date: 2025-04-25
Hundreds of millions of people died of smallpox in the first half of the 20th century. In the 1960s, the WHO started a massive vaccination program and since 1980, no one has died of smallpox. Before 1950, polio paralyzed 15,000 people a year in the US. The first vaccine became available in 1955. By 1979, polio was no longer circulating in the US. Today it only exists in a few pockets in Pakistan and Afghanistan where there has been resistance to the use of the vaccine. In the first half of the 20th century, measles killed hundreds every year and caused permanent harm to thousands. The first measles vaccine was released in 1963. By 2000, measles was considered eliminated from the US. It has only returned as vaccination rates have waned. These three diseases are excellent examples because there is no nonhuman reservoir of these viruses in which the virus can mutate and return. But every vaccine that is approved for use in the US has been shown to be effective in preventing disease and/or lessening its severity. And serious side effects have been proven to be extremely rare. The simple fact is that vaccines work. There is no debate. When a parent refuses to get appropriate medical care for a sick child, the parent is charged with neglect. The vaccination of children should be handled in the same manner.
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