The unvaccinated endanger all of us


	The unvaccinated endanger all of us

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/48113aef-cea6-457c-80a2-73371cb894e7/02AACE01-20CC-4552-8E6E-39F9E34F84E8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1206108349-6xO+H1xK4avJtnVjmRXaOg" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1206108349-6xO+H1xK4avJtnVjmRXaOg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1206108349-6xO+H1xK4avJtnVjmRXaOg"><NYT_HEADLINE _moz-userdefined="" type=" " version="1.0">
Public Health Risk Seen as Parents Reject Vaccines
</NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1206108349-6xO+H1xK4avJtnVjmRXaOg"><P>SAN DIEGO — In a highly unusual outbreak of <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Measles." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/measles/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">measles</A> here last month, 12 children fell ill; nine of them had not been inoculated against the virus because their parents objected, and the other three were too young to receive vaccines.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1206108349-6xO+H1xK4avJtnVjmRXaOg"><P>The exemptions have been growing since the early 1990s at a rate that many epidemiologists, public health officials and physicians find disturbing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1206108349-6xO+H1xK4avJtnVjmRXaOg"><P>Measles, almost wholly eradicated in the United States through vaccines, can cause <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Pneumonia." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/pneumonia/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">pneumonia</A> and brain <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Swelling." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/swelling/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">swelling</A>, which in rare cases can lead to death. The measles outbreak here alarmed public health officials, sickened babies and sent one child to the hospital. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1206108349-6xO+H1xK4avJtnVjmRXaOg"><P>Twenty states, including California, Ohio and Texas, allow some kind of personal exemption, according to a tally by the <A title="More articles about Johns Hopkins University" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/j/johns_hopkins_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Johns Hopkins University</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1206108349-6xO+H1xK4avJtnVjmRXaOg"> “If you have clusters of exemptions, you increase the risk of exposing everyone in the community,” said Dr. Omer</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/02AACE01-20CC-4552-8E6E-39F9E34F84E8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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