Stunned to see Anti-Vax knuckleheads here on DU.

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17. I am Pro Vaccinations....

We have essentially eradicated many terminal, infectious diseases with mass vaccination using the "herd" phenomena or "community immunity". Now, even if one is vaccinated, you will not be protected because several in the "herd" are not protected. The more unvaccinated individuals increases the risk of contracting a disease one thought to of been protected from with a vaccination.

No vaccinations equals chaos and a mass plague potential.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity

Herd immunity or herd effect, also called community immunity, describes a form of immunity[1] that occurs when the vaccination of a significant portion of a population provides a measure of protection for individuals who have not developed immunity.[2] Herd immunity theory proposes that, in contagious diseases that are transmitted from individual to individual, chains of infection are likely to be disrupted when large numbers of a population are immune or less susceptible to the disease. The greater the proportion of individuals who are resistant, the smaller the probability that a susceptible individual will come into contact with an infectious individual.[3]