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[–] puggy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Please read up on herd immunity. Unvaccinated kids are a problem to infants and kids who cannot be vaccinated because they are immune compromised due to cancer or some other condition. The fewer vaccinated kids there are in the community, the more likely a newborn or compromised kid will get sick and possibly die. The more vaccinated kids there are, the less likely that kid will get sick. People forget that common disease such as chicken pox used to kill thousands of infants per year.

The chicken pox vaccine offers an example of the effectiveness of disease-resistant links. After the chicken pox vaccine debuted in the United States in 1995, deaths rates from chicken pox dropped by as much as 97%. Significantly, even though the vaccine is not administered to infants, no infants died from chicken pox in the United States between 2004 and 2007. These tiniest, most vulnerable links in the chain of human connections avoided exposure thanks to herd immunity.