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- Parents in these schools are submitting a form called a "personal belief exemption," which states that they are not vaccinating their kids due to "a diffuse constellation of unproven anxieties, from allergies and asthma to eczema and seizures," reporter Gary Baum writes.
- In some schools, up to 60 to 70 percent of parents have filed these PBEs, indicating a vaccination rate as low as that of Chad or South Sudan. Unlike in Santa Monica, however, parents in South Sudan have trouble getting their children vaccinated because of an ongoing civil war.
- And lo, it is these very same L.A. neighborhoods that are experiencing a resurgence of diseases like whooping cough, otherwise known as pertussis. Measles cases have also hit a high in California this year.
AnSionnachRua · 2827 days ago · link ·
Let's look on the bright side, folks: South Sudan has vaccination rates as high as some parts of LA! On a more serious note, this anti-vaccination phenomenon is quite scary. Perhaps people have been fortunate enough to have forgotten that tuberculosis and polio really suck.
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