Vaccines are safe and effective in preventing the spread of disease. Failing to vaccinate your children not only puts them in danger from diseases when outbreaks occur, it also puts vulnerable people around them at risk.
Now it seems that Germany, Australia, and a number of other countries are fed up enough with vaccine-refusing parents that they’re experimenting with punitive measures...
This marks a pretty aggressive shift in how we manage vaccine refusers and the costly, deadly outbreaks of diseases like measles and whooping cough they help spark.
Germany and Australia are not the only countries who implemented severe measures against vaccine-refusing parents. Check out the global crackdown on parents who refuse to vaccinate their children over at Vox.
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