Washington State Parents Most Likely Not to Vaccinate

[leo-rcc]

Washington has won the dubious distinction of being the state with the most parents opting not to have their children be vaccinated. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, more than 6 percent of Washington kindergarteners were missing one or more immunizations in the 2009-2010 school year, with the chicken pox vaccine the most commonly missed; the state is said to be experiencing an “epidemic of worry over vaccine safety.”

http://www.care2.com/causes/wash-state- ... ldren.html

Is this a typical American thing? Most Dutch parents I know can't wait to get their kids vaccinated.

[Animavore]

Seems to be pretty common in England too. Haven't heard anything about it in Ireland.

[Warren Dew]

The typical vaccination schedule in the U.S. is very early and very heavy. Chicken pox is not a dangerous disease, and may be less dangerous than the unknown effects of the early vaccination schedule.

Skipping a few vaccinations is very different from skipping all of them, as some people do.

[leo-rcc]

In holland we vaccinate for various things from measles to meningitis. Some are for relatively low risk but for instance 14 year young girls might get a vaccine to prevent birth defects should they get infected during pregnancy later on in life.

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