Can you guess what happens when you ask for advice about vaccines in an anti-vaccine Facebook Group?
What could go wrong?
When You Ask for Vaccine Advice in an Anti-Vaccine Facebook Group…
While most of us are used to hearing about meningococcal meningitis being a big risk for teens and young adults, it is important to realize that rates of disease are also high for infants, with a second peak during adolescence.
So why don’t we routinely vaccinate infants against meningococcal disease?
Many countries do, including Australia and the UK, and in the United States, high risk infants are vaccinated against meningococcal disease.
If you were on the fence but were advised by your paediatrician (Australian spelling) to get vaccinated and protected because a child in your town had just died, would you get vaccinated?
Or would you listen to folks in an anti-vaccine Facebook group who tried to convince you that meningitis was actually a side effect of getting vaccinated?
Folks who insist that deaths from vaccine-preventable disease aren’t real and that instead, they are actually vaccine-injuries?
We know what happens when you ask for vaccine advice in an anti-vaccine Facebook group. The members push their propaganda to scare you away from vaccinating and protecting your kids.
Don’t listen to them. Vaccines are safe and necessary.
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