First includes everybody who refuses to have their kids vaccinated for bullshit reasons*.
Second, all kinds of illegal aliens both bringing diseases in AND not being vaccinated.
California is in the midst of its worst outbreak of whooping cough in a half-century. More than 2,700 cases have been reported so far this year — eight times last year's number at this point. Seven of the victims, all infants, have died.
And here's what really worries pediatricians like USC's Harvey Karp: Doctors thought they wiped out whooping cough when they developed vaccines decades ago.
*Be it noted that some parents have reason: daughter got sick as hell after vaccinations. Not just sore at the injection site and a little fever, actually sick. Seriously at least once. So we stopped her getting those, and she's refused any such ever since.
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Same reason for the bed bug infestations and resurgence of TB...
Considering that infants now routinely get something on the order of 13 vaccinations before they are a year old, I have to disagree with you on the everybody needs to get all their shots meme.
The problem is that nobody has any idea what sticking that much crap into a newborn is going to do. Space the damn shots out over time or better yet don't give them unless there is a chance that the child has been exposed.
Tell why you think that someone under year old needs to start the HEP A, B, and C series?
Disclaimer: BTDT when I was working overseas for the .gov. and stayed healthly without all the shots.
I don't think they do; I think they go way overboard both on the number of shots and using the combo shots.
Yes, there are those that- for school-age kids- are a good idea; that doesn't mean every kid needs EVERYTHING, and like you say they could space out those actually needed or a good idea to reduce the stress/shock to the system.
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