Sunday, 25 January 2015

World News:Disneyland measles outbreak leaves many anti-vaccination parents unmoved

In some parts of California, resistance to vaccinations including the MMR shot is stronger than ever, despite cases of measles hitting five US
states.
F or more than three years, Tanya Gottesburen refused to have her son Robert vaccinated. She didn’t like what she read about the ingredients
in vaccines – things like mercury, aluminum and bovine serum that she found “really disturbing”.
Many of her stay-at-home mum friends on the affluent Westside of Los Angeles felt the same way.
When Robert was an infant, Tanya didn’t think his immune system could handle what the doctors wanted to inject into him. She preferred to keep
breast-feeding – until he was almost two and a half– and give him solid food that was organic and healthy.
“I received 12 vaccines when I was a kid, now it’s up to 36,” Gottesburen said. “I could not see myself doing that to him.”
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