RE: Abstaining from Vaccination should NOT be a right
February 25, 2012 at 6:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2012 at 6:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Just be smart doesn't cut it Shell. Smart people (those who wash their hands, cook their food properly, follow the rules) get sick too. Viruses do evolve outside of us, but evolving within our population gives them a leg up on infecting us over other species. Mel hasn't caught rubella because she is vaccinated, and most of the people she works with are vaccinated, and we haven't seen it reinvent itself as a hardier, more resistant strain. That doesn't mean it can't or won't. We have every reason to believe that it can and will. That's exactly why we worry about developed resistance to countermeasures (and how much and how often those countermeasures are used...and why punctuated, abrupt eradication while we have it pinned down is always preferred).
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