It really is a matter of life and death.
Vaccines save millions of lives every year.
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But outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases still happen all over the world.
Last July an 8-month-long measles outbreak in Swansea, Wales, finally came to an end. But not before one person had died and 88 been forced to visit hospital after contracting the disease. Some of those who became ill during the epidemic had not received the MMR vaccine as children thanks to Andrew Wakefield’s bogus vaccine scare in 1998.
There are outbreaks still going on all over the world that could have been prevented with vaccines.
Five children died in one outbreak of whooping cough in the UK in 2012. By the end of the year, 14 babies under 3 months old had died.
This year in California, three babies have already died of whooping cough.
These are not isolated incidents.
Here are some common myths and why they aren't true.
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