The Republican Party was on the defensive yesterday after two of its leading presidential hopefuls indicated that they had sympathy for parents unwilling to vaccinate their children against infectious diseases, even in the midst of a dangerous outbreak of measles centred in California.


One day after both Senator Rand Paul and Governor Chris Christie publicly questioned the requirement for parents to vaccinate their offspring, the Speaker of the House in Congress, John Boehner, said all children in the United States should be vaccinated. So far the outbreak, which has been traced back to the Disneyland theme park in California, has infected more than 100 people in the US.

source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11396799


Really, Kids need to be vaccinated. If these children catch something and are then taken to daycare they could spread the illness to others. Yes I realize that only other unvaccinated kids would be affected, but thats still a concern. We shouldn't need to worry about exposing other people to potentially life threatening illnesses. We don't if we get our kids vaccinated.