You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.
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People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society.
I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.
You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.
You can't save kids just with vaccines.
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.
In some areas, immunity has been eroded so much that the child who's not vaccinated is now actually more vulnerable to the complications of infectious diseases.
Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do.
It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.
Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.