Not Vaccinating Your Kids Puts Children All Over the World at Risk (Video) - Truthdig

Not Vaccinating Your Kids Puts Children All Over the World at Risk (Video) - Truthdig:

You shouldn’t just vaccinate your kid to keep him or her healthy, but because deciding not to affects young ones in countries where they don’t have access to vaccines or medicine. Several places in disparate parts of the globe are experiencing measles outbreaks, among other diseases, fueled by Western “vaccine denialism.”

Brazil, for example, is suffering the consequences of anti-vaxxers’ selfish actions, despite national efforts to diminish the spread of infectious diseases. With the World Cup and Olympics just around the corner (when myriad tourists will flood Brazilian cities) the risks are starting to cause alarm bells to go off in the South American country.

As The Guardian columnist Jill Filipovic notes, the ignorance involved in deciding not to immunize your offspring is not a “First World Problem”; the mistakes of the West affect the rest of the globe, so it’s time to wake up and smell the science.

 

    A child wears a protection mask on Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. Xavier Donat (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)