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While I am sorry for the loss of your child, Legalizing vaccination goes against one of our most sacred rights—the right to give informed consent for medical treatment. With that, I don’t think parents should immunize children, the right to consent is theirs also. If vaccines were harmless to every single person who received them, then I could understand putting this decision, but About 2,000 severe reactions are reported to the CDC each year which results in prolonged hospitalization, permanent disability, or death. As of Feb. 17, there are 141 cases nationwide. Not thousands. According to the Orange County Public Health Department, no new cases have been reported in the OC since Feb. 4. After the initial surge, it is now moving slowly. It is not spreading like wildfire in an exponential explosion of unprecedented proportion. It has killed no one. It can kill about 1 person in every 1000 cases. Will someone die of measles in the United States in the years to come? Maybe. But it hasn't killed anyone in the past 15 years or more.

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 Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That is why In my opinion parents who now refuse to have their children immunized are putting the lives of those children at risk. Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it. It really is almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunized.

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As of Feb. 17, there are 141 cases nationwide. Not thousands. According to the Orange County Public Health Department, no new cases have been reported in the OC since Feb. 4. After the initial surge, it is now moving slowly. It is not spreading like wildfire in an exponential explosion of unprecedented proportion.

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LET THAT SINK IN. Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles. How many children should die before all of Britain builds herd immunity? It really is almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunized. The ideal time to have it done is at 13 months, but it is never too late. All school-children who have not yet had a measles immunization should beg their parents to arrange for them to have one as soon as possible.

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Through herd immunity that mass vaccination becomes far more effective than individual vaccination. Any given vaccine can fail to produce immunity in an individual, and some vaccines, like an influenza vaccine, are less effective than others. But when people are vaccinated with even a relatively ineffective vaccine, viruses have trouble moving from host to host and cease to spread, sparing both the unvaccinated and those in whom vaccination has not produced immunity.

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Over $3 billion have been paid out to victims of vaccine reactions. Are we paying that much money to victims of pretend reactions? I think not.

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Yet they can't be proven, Listen to this. In a district of around 300,000 people, there will be only one child every 250 years who will develop serious side effects from measles immunization! I should think there would be more chance of your child choking to death on a chocolate bar than of becoming seriously ill from a measles immunization.

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If vaccines were harmless to every single person who received them, then I could understand putting this decision, but About 2,000 severe reactions are reported to the CDC each year which results in prolonged hospitalization, permanent disability, or death.

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In my opinion, parents who now refuse to have their children immunized are putting the lives of those children at risk. In America, where measles immunization is compulsory, measles like smallpox, has been virtually wiped out.  Here in Britain, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die.

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Legalizing vaccination goes against one of our most sacred rights—the right to give informed consent for medical treatment. With that, I don’t think parents should immunize children, the right to consent is theirs also.