Measles Outbreaks Continue to Cause Concern.
Murphy, J F A
At the Europaediatrics in Dublin, 13-15 June 2019 there was a symposium on Mandatory vaccination.
Many pros and cons were voiced.
The deeper and more worrying issue is why such a debate is now considered necessary. It is difficult to
grasp why a proportion of a knowledgeable and well-educated group of parents would choose not to
vaccinate their children. Scientific progress in vaccination has been hard won. Governments provide it
free of costs to parents. It is the greatest or one of the greatest advances in children’s healthcare over
the last century. In Ireland in 1950, in the pre-Measles vaccination era there were 15,000 cases in a
single year. It is distressing to see these advances in disease prevention being undermined and
underused.
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