Reply To: Vaccines in the frum community

gavra – sorry, call it what you want, but as i stated before, i just don’t buy it. my kids are perfectly healthy k”h, b”h, they are active, they eat properly, take vitamins, and have no medical issues except when they took vaccines 3 years ago. since then we avoid certain vaccines.

So is a hand grenade. It is the potential.

Besides, as I told “chance”, I’m not looking to convince the true believers. I’m trying to convince others that exposure to unvaccinated children in any form is a real health problem.

P.S. I notice you say you avoid “certain vaccines”. I’ll give you credit that you made a risk/reward analysis and decided some vaccines (lets say for example the MMR or Chicken Pox) are not worth taking, while others (such as Tetanus) are. I have to give you credit for making an informed decision, if nothing else.

secondly, what’s up with HPV?

For a different thread. HPV has a different transmission vector, and casual contact will not transmit the virus. As such, it (and similar viruses) will not affect others like airborne pathogens.