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Originally Posted by monster
The vaccination process is more about society as a whole than individuals and that's an idea that isn't so popular in parenting these days.
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It's important to remember, however, that a major part of this theory is that adults must also be re-immunized every 10 years. By and large, it is the adults who were immunized as children and have now lost their immunity that are now getting the newborns sick, not the handful of children who have never been immunized. Most babies get it from their parents, and there's been a big push for at least 5 years now to get parents of newborns immunized against pertussis themselves while they're still there in the hospital.