Abstaining from Vaccination should NOT be a right

[Melanbee]

Both the CDC and the WHO agree that the first line of defense is hand hygiene. Vaccinations are helpful but not as effective as hygiene.

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I like where you went with this. Now this argument I can understand and even get on board with. We have seen this happen with MRSA and VRSA...a virus will always figure out a way to grow stronger and mutate to such a degree that the current treatment of choice is no longer effective.
Your smallpox example...absolutely true. So, which of our current diseases are causing an outbreak in the same fashion that smallpox did? I haven't seen anything within the past few weeks from the CDC but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen.

Well, on the CDC's MMWR today there is a summary of 2008 right behind the front page nod to the increased risk and incidence of influenza for pregnant women.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5754.pdf
Here's a quick excerpt...infectious diseases of note for 2008.

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Infectious Diseases Designated as Notifiable
at the National Level during 2008*
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal disease
Mumps
†
Novel influenza A virus infections
Pertussis
Plague
Poliomyelitis, paralytic
Poliovirus infection, nonparalytic
Psittacosis
Q fever
†
acute
chronic
Rabies
animal
human
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
†
Rubella
Rubella, congenital syndrome
Salmonellosis
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus
(SARS-CoV) disease
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC)
Shigellosis
Smallpox
Streptococcal disease, invasive, Group A
Streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome
Streptococcus pneumoniae, drug resistant, all ages, invasive disease
Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease non-drug resistant,
in children aged <5 years
Syphilis
Syphilis, congenital
Tetanus
Toxic-shock syndrome (other than streptococcal)
Trichinellosis
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Typhoid fever
Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus infection (VISA)
Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (VRSA)
Varicella (morbidity)
Varicella (mortality)
Vibriosis
Yellow fever
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Anthrax
Domestic arboviral diseases, neuroinvasive and nonneuroinvasive
California serogroup virus
Eastern equine encephalitis virus
Powassan virus
St. Louis encephalitis virus
West Nile virus
Western equine encephalitis virus
Botulism
foodborne
infant
other (wound and unspecified)
Brucellosis
Chancroid
Chlamydia trachomatis infections
Cholera
Coccidioidomycosis
†
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Diphtheria
Ehrlichiosis/Anaplasmosis
†
Ehrlichia chaffeensis
Ehrlichia ewingii
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Undetermined
Giardiasis
Gonorrhea
Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease
Hansen disease (Leprosy)
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal
Hepatitis, viral, acute
Hepatitis A, acute
Hepatitis B, acute
Hepatitis B virus, perinatal infection
Hepatitis C, acute
Hepatitis, viral, chronic
Chronic Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C virus infection (past or present)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection
Adult (age ≥13 yrs)
Pediatric (age <13 yrs)
Influenza-associated pediatric mortality
Legionellosis
Listeriosis

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The field is wide open for the source of our next big epidemic.
( Plague, really? Fuck me. :hangs head: )

I'm rolling my eyes. This is natures way of controlling our population. I'm sorry but...it's just true.