OT: USA Today article about rising numbers of unvaccinated kids

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-05-04-vaccines04_ST_N.htm

I find the breakdown of why parents are refusing or delaying vaccines

interesting. If I read the bar graph correctly, the majority of the cases where

vaccines are being delayed (in their survey) is because the child was ill at the

time vaccines were scheduled. That is simply following what is recommended

protocol.

Looking further, only 22-27% delayed or refused vaccines due to beliefs that

there were too many vaccinations or that they led to Autism. That isn't much

more than a 3% increase in the past 7 years... not a reason to freak out in the

medical world.

Numbers can be so deceiving.