Why vaccinate?

[ailbhe]

I have to get this out or I will burst.

I vaccinate so that my children don't kill anyone. My children are strong enough to withstand most of the illnesses against which they have been vaccinated, lucky me. This is why I vaccinated - if they were weak, I might have thought twice.

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[rmc28]

I think I am not nearly so selfless. I vaccinated my son so I didn't have the screaming heebeejeebies about him catching any of these horrible illnesses. But then for our family, measles is not a harmless little childhood illness, but the thing that nearly killed my mother when she was 5.

There is also the "not passing on rubella to any pregnant women" aspect.

[ailbhe]

Well, I had measles and rubella as a child (aged 2 and 14) and I was grand. So they didn't scare me.

Meningitis scares me, because my aunt died of it when she was 8, and a girl in my school died of it when I was 14.