Medical personnel required vaccinations vs. children not required to receive

[awileyq]

I think that it is hilarious that nurses, nursing students, housekeeping, etc. at a hospital/etc. have to receive the flu shot and the chickenpox shot, whereas parents can choose basically a life-sentence for their children by not vaccinating them against polio, hepatitis, measles, tetorifice, etc. Sure I can understand not wanting to give your child the flu vaccine, chickenpox, or the Gardasil vaccinations, but not the life-threatening vaccinations! Parents have gotten scared off by this Autism scare. This study however was not conducted properly and have thus been greatly disproven. My question for these parents is this: Do you want your child to be on a ventilator for a year, die a painful death, give another family the devastation of their child dying from a preventable disease; or do you want your child to have an extremely slight chance of having some learning difficulties??

What do you think??

[BlueDevil,DNP, DNP, RN]

Varicella, influenza and cervical cancer are all potentially life threatening; your comments on that point defy logic. An awful lot of ignorant medical professionals refuse their vaccines, too. Lay people don't have a monopoly on dumb decisions.

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Autism is far more than "some learning difficulties" however, that research was DISPROVEN years ago as INACCURATE and FLAWED. There is no link. There are many reasons that a parent gives to not get their kids vaccinated. With that being said, most all of them are fully vaccinated adults.

And if I had a dime for every less than thrilled 18 yo on the way to college/travel and find themselves in need of a full set of vaccinations that they should have gotten as a child, I would be rich.