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Originally Posted by V
I'm definitely not educated on the subject, but if my kids get vaccinated, why are they at risk if some of the knuckle-draggers don't? Is the vaccine just not able to handle exposure?
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Children cannot be vaccinated until they reach a certain age. The danger to your kids is if they're exposed to a preventable disease by the child of an idiot anti-vaxxer prior to being vaccinated themselves.
See this story from earlier this year:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...warn-1.1314245
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Thirty newborn babies and their mothers might have been exposed to measles after someone with a measles rash walked onto the maternity ward of Abbotsford hospital on Thursday, officials with the Fraser Health Authority say.
Newborns are too young to be vaccinated against the disease, which is airborne and highly contagious, said Fraser Health’s chief medical health officer Paul Van Buynder.
The illness is extremely dangerous, and in one in 3,000 cases, it can be fatal.
Fraser Health is warning people in Abbotsford to get vaccinated against measles, adding that in some areas nearby, vaccination rates are close to zero.
"There are groups in Fraser East who don't believe in immunization and that they are likely to share this disease, given the likelihood that they will get measles at this moment," Van Buynder said.
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