Some potential Republican presidential candidates, along with Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy, have spoken out recently about childhood vaccinations and the need, in their views, to keep the vaccinations a matter of parental choice.
This discussion is the result of a recent uptick in the number of measles cases in the U.S.
Children get a vaccination called the MMR which includes a vaccine to prevent measles. Since the introduction of a measles vaccine in 1963, the average number of measles cases has dropped from a half-million per year to fewer than 100.
But concern exists among many that the vaccines are responsible for a rise in the numbers of autism cases.
Oneida County Public Health Nurse Dawn Klink says the numbers show that vaccinations work...
"....many of the diseases have been significantly decreased, except you find them in some third world countries. But in the United States, many of the diseases have been eliminated or decreased way down in number by the use of vaccinations...."
Klink says talk to your medical provider or your local county health department for more information..
