(03-15-2024, 01:02 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Antivaxxers are not helping and measles isn't the only one.

I read that Paul Alexander, AKA, The Man in the Iron Lung died last week. He was 78, contracted polio in 1952 at age 6 and lived the majority of his life in an iron lung. Polio was officially eradicated from this country in 1979 with sporadic events, the most recent in 2022 when an unvaccinated traveler tested positive in Rochester, NY. 

I don't understand why parents don't vaccinate against measles, mumps, Rubella, polio, etc. Sure most all citizens of this country are vaccinated but all it takes in an encounter with travelers and immigrants who aren't vaccinated for a problem to happen.