Why Do Kids Get More Vaccines Than They Did in 1986?

The answer might surprise you - if you have been reading anti-vaccine propaganda...

If there is one thing that anti-vaccine influencers get right, it is that children today do get more vaccines than they did in the past.

How scary would an image look of a baby getting their all of their baby food for the first 12 months all at once!

But there is something about this time that you should let sink in - a lot of kids were dying with diseases that are now vaccine preventable!

Why Do Kids Get More Vaccines Than They Did in 1986?

And that’s why kids now get more vaccines.

Vaccines that are safe, with few risks, and which have been well tested before they are used, including studies with placebos.

Vaccines that are necessary to keep them from getting sick and dying with these diseases.

Without the universal hepatitis B vaccination program, each year there would be about 6,800 perinatal hepatitis B infections and 90% of these babies would develop chronic hepatitis B. At least 25% of them would later die from cirrhosis or liver cancer.

In all of their talk about terrible Big Pharma is, folks like Aaron Siri always leave out any mention of just how devastating all of these, now vaccine-preventable diseases really are.

Tragically, we used to read about these kinds of deaths from now vaccine-preventable diseases in the paper. And these kids died because a vaccine wasn’t yet available, not because they were intentionally unvaccinated.

Which is why the great majority of folks vaccinate and protect their children and ignore anti-vaccine propaganda.

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