artsyhonker aka Kathryn
@tbeckett @redoak I don't have actual statistics to hand, but in the UK measles and mumps have been making a comeback -- someone at my uni in 2005 got mumps and was very, very sick.
One issue is that most modern vaccines use herd immunity to work, so even if, say, 10% of the population are unvaccinated, the other 90% are at greater risk.
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