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Deadly Whooping Cough, Once Wiped Out, Is Back
California is in the midst of its worst outbreak of whooping cough in a half-century. More than 2,700 cases have been reported so far this year — eight times last year's number at this point. Seven of the victims, all infants, have died.
The California epidemic has raised plenty of questions about the role of vaccination and the increasing numbers of parents who decide not to vaccinate their children. California's Department of Public Health cites three schools in the state where 80 percent of parents have signed a "personal belief exemption" to keep their children from being vaccinated.

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These stories make me so frustrated and sad.

I have to second everyone's thought here... (and do pardon how I say this... it's not "Politically Correct" but...) the damned Hippies of today's era (vs. the real hippies of my own youth) have taken on an extreme and dangerous level of arrogance and for the wrong reasons. I fear society as a whole, is going to have to pay some hefty tariffs because of that arrogance and how the audacity of a few will ultimately cost the many.

Do vaccinations cause autism and/or other issues in children? Current evidence doesn't point that direction but it's possible it has caused issues in some children. Do vaccinations prevent and save countless lives? Current evidence says the most assuredly do.

I hate saying this, but David Icke says a lot of things...

Dr. Spok told us that raising children his way would give us better functioning adults but look at how his kids turned out...

Sorry, but there is a big issue when it comes to the vaccination thing... screw your own kids, what about the rest of society? Look at how "your" selfishness and not vaccinating "your" kids is endangering the rest of "your" community, allowing once "defeated" illnesses (like whooping cough) to come back and at a greater level of intensity.

What should be done with the parents that think this way when Small Pox returns or other crippling illnesses that these vaccinations have been PROVEN to control and more or less make go away from our realities?

People with HIV who deliberately spit, bite or even have sex with others can and have been charged with attempted Manslaughter... shouldn't the same go for the parents that made their children walking-talking bio-weapons?

Granted, Im' being a bit silly here, but at the same time there is a truth that must be weighed.