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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNY Times: Vaccine Critics Turn Defensive Over Measles
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/vaccine-critics-turn-defensive-over-measles.html-snip-
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. Their children have been sent home from school. Their families are barred from birthday parties and neighborhood play dates. Online, people call them negligent and criminal. And as officials in 14 states grapple to contain a spreading measles outbreak that began near here at Disneyland, the parents at the heart of Americas anti-vaccine movement are being blamed for incubating an otherwise preventable public-health crisis.
Measles anxiety rippled thousands of miles beyond its center on Friday as officials scrambled to try to contain a wider spread of the highly contagious disease which America declared vanquished 15 years ago, before a statistically significant number of parents started refusing to vaccinate their children.
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NY Times: Vaccine Critics Turn Defensive Over Measles (Original Post)
LiberalElite
Feb 2015
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NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)1. ...
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)2. They are fortunate they are not put into leper colonies. nt
Nay
(12,051 posts)3. They and their children should be vocally and physically shunned out
of the community. Make the stupidity hurt, and maybe they'll stop.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)4. Anti Vaxxers should be forced to live as hermits.
It should be illegal for them to have any contact whatsoever with society in general.