Non-Medical Vaccination Opt-Outs on the Rise

Dr. Heather Hawthorne
ABC News
September 19, 2012

[Editor's note: Warning! Pro-vaccine propaganda ahead!]

An increasing number of parents are getting state approval to allow their children to opt out of school-mandated vaccinations for non-medical reasons, according to a new analysis published Wednesday.

Dr. Saad Omer, author of the correspondence published in the New England Journal of Medicine, warned that this trend is leaving large populations of children at risk for developing potentially deadly illnesses that haven’t been seen in the United States in many years.

“Rates of exemption are substantially higher today than several years ago,” said Omer, assistant professor of global health, epidemiology and pediatrics at Emory University in Atlanta. “Previously, rates were only rising in states with easy exemption policies, but now they are even rising in states that make it more difficult.”

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This article was posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 4:50 pm

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