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29th Apr 2019AndjelkaG commented on:
Should parents have the option not to vaccinate their children?My son was allergic to one of the ingredients in the MMR vaccine and therefore didn't receive it when it was due. Eight months later he contracted measles, in all likelihood from a recently vaccinated child in his playgroup. Do I wish those other parents hadn't let their children receive the vaccine just so that my son would be spared the risk of contracting the disease? No. It was their choice. This whole debate is burying certain truths, namely that exposure to a disease doesn't guarantee someone will contract it; susceptibility to disease depends on do much more than mere exposure. When I was 7 I got chicken pox but neither of my two sisters caught it from me. One of my sisters contracted measles-neither I nor my other sister caught it from her. Vaccination is no guarantee of protection. Most cases in the recent mumps outbreak in the UK were in vaccinated individuals! Let people decide for themselves and let's hope that more objective and unbiased information becomes available to help us.