Revised Recommendations for Vaccines Are Being Phased In, CDC Report Says

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3. The line?

Vaccines cannot be given below a certain age. Whooping cough deaths worldwide are overwhelmingly amongst those too young to be vaccinated yet old enough to be exposed by kids who should have been vaccinated, but weren't. BTW, when you're less than six months old, pertussis is not a good way to die.

In Africa, various religious organizations are spreading lies about the polio vaccine, saying it is a Western plot to make Africans sterile. The result? Polio, instead of being eradicated is finding its way into the population. And since there has been next to no polio in the US in decades, many here are no longer being vaccinated for it. This provides an opportunity for somebody from an unvaccinated country where polio is extant, to the US where there are enough unvaccinated for some communities to provide a rich medium for polio to spread.

A disease few have ever seen could come back merely because of the vagaries of global airlines and ignorance of what vaccines can do.