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The most common diseases of childhood, measles, whooping cough, mumps, diphtheria, and meningitis, once almost completely eradicated,  are now being regularly reported in Europe.  They will almost certainly spread across the ocean to your neighborhood.  This resurgence of communicable diseases is due to one public health disaster.  That is a rising tendency for parents and travelers to refuse vaccines for their children and for themselves.

The two vaccines, MMR agains measles, mumps, and rubella, and DTaP against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis are time-tested to be safe and dramatically effective.  In fact, these vaccines are significantly more effective than flu vaccine and induce immunity against contracting diseases that endures far longer than the similarly highly effective CoVid vaccines.

So why aren't people vaccinating.  Many have been mislead by lies about all vaccines on social or alternative media, and some have religious objections to vaccines based on their components that come from pigs.

Listen up folks—-  These diseases are not to be fooled with.  Some are deadly, many are handicapping, and all are completely unnecessary.  They’ve been conquered in the past because most of us have vaccinated our kids and ourselves against them following good public health recommendations.  Public health means all of us taking action to rid our communities of these disease threats since the vaccines only protect if nearly all of us have the vaccine-induced immunity.

I’m not your family doc, but if your child or you were my patient I’d say:  Look….get vaccinated with every available and appropriate vaccine.  Getting the DTaP and MMR vaccines are the minimum.  Teens should get the HPV, human papilloma virus, and meningococcal conjugate vaccines.  Everyone should get the CoVid vaccine.  Older patients also need the shingles and pneumococcal vaccines. And pregnant women should get the RSV vax and a boost of the CoVid vaccine.

You should not be shy about asking your own medical teams about these and other vaccines.  Just do it.

Let’s not let these once-eradicated communicable diseases flare up here in the US.  Get vaccinated.  It’s the wise and caring thing to do.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/vaccine-preventable-diseases-surge-europe-sounds-alarm-2024a10007ok?ecd=a2a

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