One of the only ways to avoid having to vaccinate your child in order for them to attend public schools is to claim religous exemption. It seems that a growing number of parents are "faking" religious beliefs in order to avoid their child having to recieve mandatory childhood vaccinations.
Concerned about possible health complications due to the shots (many believe the increased rate of autism is caused by vaccinations), parents pretend to be religous in order to keep the state from forcing them to have their children vaccinated.
Although the number of parents who seek exemptions is small, health officials fear that even a small amount of unvaccinated children can lead to outbreaks of diseases rarely heard of today including measles and polio.
In 1991, an outbreak of Measles in Philadelphia affected 700 people, and killed 8, when a group of parents opted not to have their children vaccinated.
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I think kids should be vaccinated, but I think that the vaccines need some work too. Since there is a concern that one aspect of these vaccines may cause autism, then the drug companies NEED to reformulate them so that there is no longer a concern and our kids can be vaccinated safely!
Although I agree as a parent to have children immunized as it does protect them from diseases, I wonder if we are fighting nature and nature is going to fight back, as we are seeing in the "superbug". Disease and death is nature's way, albeit cruel, to keep the population in control and we have disturbed that process by introducing methods, cures and vaccines that have altered and distorted the natural order of things.
I believe autism may be a consequence of immunizations and there may be correlation not yet understood by the medical community. sometimes, symptoms can take years to manifest themselves and not much is known about the condition, but I wouldn't automatically discount it as not being a side-effect.
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