fuzzykitten99
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Vaccination is a higher risk. Did you do that or are you going to?
higher risk of what?
and yes. I do... the benefits far outweigh the risks.
...The risks of disease outbreaks
In some respects, immunization programs have been a victim of their own incredible success. Because many vaccine-preventable diseases are now uncommon in the United States, you may feel less urgency about getting yourself or your children immunized. You might never have known of a case of diphtheria, polio or tetanus. You may feel that stringent levels of cleanliness and sanitation are enough to control disease. And you may feel that simply living in a highly vaccinated society protects you. However, these reasons are insufficient. Only after a vaccine is used widely is there a significant drop in the incidence of any vaccine-preventable disease.
In fact, many infectious diseases that have virtually disappeared in the United States can quickly reappear. That's because the germs that cause the diseases still exist in other parts of the world, making a new outbreak in the United States only a plane trip away. Travelers can unintentionally carry disease into the United States. From a single entry point, an infectious disease can spread quickly, particularly among those who are unprotected.
Those who aren't properly immunized are much more likely to catch a disease. As recently as the early 1990s, several serious outbreaks of measles occurred in the United States because of inadequate immunization. ...
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vaccines/CC00013
mumps outbreak just recently:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1817842&page=1
chickenpox info:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/chickenpox/DS00053...Most people think of chickenpox as a mild disease and, for most, it is. Chickenpox usually lasts about two weeks and rarely causes complications. But the disease can be serious, even in healthy children.
There's no way to know which infected child or adult will develop a severe case. However, the chickenpox vaccine is a safe, effective way to prevent chickenpox and its possible complications. In the small number of cases when the vaccine doesn't stop chickenpox completely, the resulting infection is much milder than the infections that put most U.S. children into bed for a week years ago...