According to the Numbers of Centers for Disease Control, in early childhood vaccinations Georgia takes the top position in United States.
Georgia leads despite of growing opposition from the anti-vaccination movement. As people believe that childhood vaccinations can be linked to autism and other conditions.
The Centers for Disease Control tracked with kids between 19 to 35 months and found that more than 75 percent of kids were vaccinated in Georgia when compared to about 72 percent nationally. However, the health officials said that those numbers should be much higher.
“These diseases are still out there. They can occur. They do occur,” said Dr. Charles Lutin of the American Family Care in Woodstock. Lutin calls the anti-vaccine movement alarming and also said that it is threatening the health of kids in United States.
“Anybody who advocates against widespread childhood immunizations is either seriously dishonest or seriously ignorant,” argued Lutin. Lutin points to an outbreak of measles which started at Disneyland in the December 2014 and spread to half a dozen in United States, Mexico, and Canada.
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“The outbreak spread from that one index case… to involve 134 recognized cases of measles,” Lutin shared. Epidemiologists said highly contagious diseases can spread very easily to the children without vaccination.
"If I can't pronounce what's in it, I don't want to put it in her,” Shannon Ayer contended about her baby daughter. A month after the measles outbreak in Disney, measles made its way to Georgia through a passenger at the Hartsfield-Jackson but Ayer still refused to vaccinate her daughter.
Ayer is not alone in her beliefs, as hundreds of people protested outside the CDC in the last October insisting that vaccines cause more harm to children than good.
“We don't see these vaccine injured children out in society and I think that is why the public has no idea that this is really going on,” contended Michelle Ford of the Vaccine Injury Awareness League.
One of the main claims of the protestors is that vaccines are somehow linked to autism. The claim is widely refuted in the scientific community. Many studies have been done and also study shows no relationship between vaccines and autism.
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