Coincidentally, there's a story in yesterday's NY Times about an outbreak of measles amongst children in California, most of whom had not been vaccinated against it.
I have at least one friend who didn't vaccinate her children, and I know lots of parents who think parents like that are, to put it as impolitely as they do, idiots.
A recent decision by the federal "vaccine court" that conceded that vaccines may worsen an underlying condition that can lead to autism-like symptoms (is that enough qualifications for you?) certainly isn't clearing things up in one direction or the other.
Right now it seems like ti's providing supporting evidence for those who are convinced vaccines are unnecessarily risky, and the decision was worded narrowly enough that it proves nothing to those who dismiss such concerns.
Have any of you not vaccinated your children? Or had your children exposed to something because of other people's unvaccinated children?
how big a problem is this really?
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