I agree. Many years and money have gone into researching and developing vaccines to eradicate certain diseases and now because people think that the side effects far outweigh the benefits of vaccination we now risk being exposed to diseases unnecessarily. People need to get all the facts rather than just jumping on the current bandwagon. They need to think about their children and the greater community. They are only making our country go backwards.

Vaccination from disease is a community responsibility.

I am 100% with you. Vaccines are essential to the health of our babies and the ongoing health of the general population. I think a hysterical minority is threatening the ongoing health of Australia in the future and it scares me

Well said. I agree & now with baby number three I ask every parent who has a child near mine if they’re vaccinated, with my second it took half a dozen parents to kindly let a mother know that their child is lovely but she cannot play with mine because she is not vaccinated for an old friend to reconsider, read up & choose to vaccinate. It makes me wild when people put my children at unnecessary risk & unfortunately it’s usually more about the parent than the child’s best interests.

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yes i am all for vaccinations! it is some defense for my child’s immunity

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  • • mom94125 replied
    • 20 Jun 2015 , 2:03 pm

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  yes and when you put it like that- there are poor people wishing that they had access to vacs and education. We have these and take it all for granted

Immunisation is essential for everyone.i struggled with would I or not? The risk is too high not to immunise. I have nursed children who had not been immunised to prevent measles. I have never seen children as sick as these little ones. A friend’s daughter died from rubella when she was about 16 years of age. She was immunised, however had not had a booster, at that time it was not supported to have a booster. She must have come in contact and she was in a coma for a long time before she died. I know people who have had polio, it is a dreadful crippling illness that recurs thought life as does malaria. People who advocate against immunisation have obviously never known people who have had these diseases or known of families who have lot a child because of these preventative diseases..So many children and adults have died from tetanus. My grandfather died from tetanus when he was a young man and 6 children never had their dad when they were growing up.i was immunised, kept up with boosters, and traveled by bus for several hundred miles, the family I visited, several members contracted rubella. I must have been a carrier and come into contact while on the bus. Three children and tiny baby and the father all were very ill.so even if immunised, people can still be infected, perhaps with a different strain. My mother almost died from diphtheria when she was a little girl. Hopefully there will come a time when a test can be done to alert if a child should not have immunisation because it would do harm. The amount of children who do have bad reactions can be lessened if they are spread out, not given all at once. Also if a child has a reaction ,then report this, so that that child will be exempt.

Maybe there is some confusion about what she means by vaccinations?

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  • • mom165081 replied
    • 27 Dec 2015 , 10:19 am

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  I don’t think there is an confusion or doubt in the story – the story is immensely clear, and I agree with the sentiments totally. My great uncle had TB and seeing him in an isolation ward, really bought home the pain and suffering such diseases cause.