Resistance to vaccines, how real is concern?

Health workers work hard at vaccinating every child against polio so that no child can suffer from the disabled effects of the disease.

There are other diseases that can be eliminated, such as measles; but although there is a highly effective vaccine for fruit, not all children are vaccinated against the disease. In Western lands this is largely because parents choose not to vaccinate their children.

There's not a year, at least during the period I've worked at Philadelphia's Paddy Hospital, that we don't see children suffering or dying from vaccine - preventable diseases, and in any case this has been due to the decision that parents have made by” - Dr. Paul Offi, at Philadelphia's Paddy Hospital.

Last year, more than 14,000 people in Europe were affected by measles. Romania had the largest number of cases.

“We cannot fight this disease unless we increase population vaccine rates... but we also need to understand why the vaccine rate is declining”, says Miljana Grbic, of the World Health Assembly in Romania.

Many health officials say vaccines are victims of their own success.

By the time my parents were children, in the 1920 ' s and 1930 ' s, diftitis repeatedly caused death in teenagers. Polioel caused the disability of children and adults, so it was not necessary to convince our parents to vaccinate me, my sister, or my brother,” Dr. Paul Offi, at Philadelphia's Paddy Hospital.

A new study shows that rejection of vaccines in the United States turns into infectious trends: If a community refuses to vaccinate, so do adjacent communities.

“As collective trends, this factor is causing the rejection and delay of vaccines. ”- says Tony Yang, from “George Mason” University.

A number of patients believe the mispronouncements they read on the internet about the false link between vaccines and autism, although studies do not prove that. Then they spread this wrong information to other parents and no longer fear the disease.

When they no longer fear the disease, they are afraid of vaccines and that's exactly what I think happened,”- says Dr. Offfit.

In some lands the laws on this matter have been strengthened. In California children are not allowed to be vaccinated unless there is a health reason.

In Australia, the government offers free HPV vaccines. This virus causes cervical cancer, the second most common cancer in women worldwide.

Twenty to 30 years later, Australia is expected to see a significant decline in this type of cancer because of government policies and an effective vaccine. / VOA