Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Disappearing Diseases

A common argument of those who push non-standard, parent-selected, delayed protection vaccine schedules is that kids are no long at risk for many vaccine-preventable diseases any more because those diseases have disappeared. After all, when was the last time you saw polio or diphtheria in the United States? How about measles, mumps, or pertussis? Oops.

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What Are the Benefits of Natural Immunity?

The benefit of natural immunity, developing life-long immunity, comes at such a high price that it is not worth skipping or delaying your child’s vaccines to get it.

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