[quote=joec]One thing I don’t understand is if your own kids are vaccinated, how does other people not getting the vaccination affect your kid or you?
Being vaccinated, aren’t you protected already and if people get the measles, it shouldn’t affect you right?[/quote]IIRC, the MMR effective rate is something like 98-99%. However, if you’re surrounded by people who are not vaccinated and have measles, then the effective rate drops to something like 88%. Still effective, but it definitely reduces the effective rate. Which is why it’s important that everyone is vaccinated, so that your kids are not exposed to other kids who are not vaccinated and contracted measles.
Unfortunately, a big portion of the anti-vaccination movement are affluent people, who have the means to travel the world. Which then expose their kids to these kinds of diseases from other countries and bring it back here to the US.
