Marin Mommies Who Don't Vaccinate
From today' Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/27/AR201009...
The resurgence of the highly contagious disease is particularly alarming because most children in California, as in the rest of the country, have received six doses of vaccine by age 12.
A combination of factors may be to blame.
In California it is legal and quite easy to refuse vaccination, and the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism has created clusters of unvaccinated children. In affluent Marin County north of San Francisco, for example, about 13 percent of parents refused vaccination for their kindergartners in 2009, according to the state's Department of Public Health. Marin has one of the highest rates of infection this year.
Apparently affluent does not equal educated in Marin County.
Anyone who has been to a third world country and seen what polio or tetanus looks like know vaccines are life saving. I'm amazed at the amount of bad information circulating throughout Marin about vaccinations. People don't realize how many thousands of people in this country die from the flu each year.