While many will take this opportunity to play politics and say why this 6-year-old should/should not have been vaccinated, the truth is that no matter the decision that was made, he now is sick and we should just be wishing him a fast recovery.

Hopefully, the parents will learn from this incident and get him fully immunized.

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These parents not only endangered the life of their child, but the lives of kids who are too young to be vaccinated or have medical reasons why they cannot be vaccinated.

Wishing this individual child a fast recovery does not conflict with concern for the health of the general population.

Including their kid.

And it is not a political position to ask people to vaccinate. It is a scientific one. And the anti-vaccine position comes from ignorance, not politics.

So yes. I fault the parents here. They put their kid, and any others who cannot be vaccinated who might come into contact, in danger because of their ignorance.

This is exactly the time. Your argument is identical to gun fetishists saying that we can't talk about gun control after one of our regular mass killings.

Pointing out WHY kids don't get Oregon Trail diseases anymore is important, and it's entirely consistent with caring about this kid and all the other kids at risk.

He shouldn't even be dealing with this entirely preventable illness.

It's unethical to simply ignore practices that can lead to epidemics.

Cause: Anti-vaxxers spreading their crap nationwide
Effect: Dead or seriously sick kids.

That isn't politics it is reality. These diseases were eliminated before anti-science idiots look at the greatest public health achievements of human history and said "Wait those must be bad."

It's just like people who don't wear seat belts because their experience tells them that they will never need the protection. Until they do.

This should be held up as an object lesson to all those who shun vaccinations.

Does everyone get a Tetanus (TD) shot every 10 years? Probably not. If that wears off, I suppose the Diphtheria, and Pertussis, would also.

that being said people who do receive a tetanus booster usually receive a Tdap injection though it really depends on the practice. Most of the physicians I know provide Tdap but some keep Td in inventory. Others only administer immunization injections after the patient has obtained their vaccination from the pharmacy. With the latter, the providers usually write a script for Tdap but it really depends on the patient.

I hope the poor kid is OK.

I guess bringing measles back wasn't enough.