The Importance Of Vaccinating Children

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Shannon, it also makes my blood boil when I hear that people died for something that could have been easily prevented just by them getting an injection of a vaccine. I agree that education is the key to parents understanding the importance of vaccinating their children. Lecturing someone never seems to get a person to understand what you are trying to educate him or her on. For whatever the many reasons the parents have for not vaccinating their children, the one that seems to be of most concern to them is the measles mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR). The parental issue to whether or not to vaccinate their children has being increasing over the past two decades, creating many concerns with the health of the public (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556054/).

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