I'm not against vaccinations, but I knew a nurse who got a flu shot, and a week later, woke up unable to move part of her face, and her one arm and leg were weak. A stroke was ruled out, and the doctors asked her what did she do differently, what medicine, etc. in the past month or so. The only thing was the flu shot, and the manufacturer did say there could be a reaction of MS-like symptoms. There was nothing she could do, because you sign a release when you get one. She never regained normalcy.

Some of my classmates had parents who were polio victims, and walked with a pronounced limp. They were the lucky ones. The majority of people don't read or think. Serious diseases like the measles and whooping cough, both if which I suffered through, are no joke, and can be fatal. What's next? Small pox? Measles should have been eradicated, and almost was, save for these anti-vaxxer idiots.

That short memory is big trouble. I use photos like these, too, to remind people. I know people whose immune systems are not the greatest, including a young grand nephew who has a rare syndrome that keeps him in the hospital often enough as it is.

I also knew a couple of people with polio. Fortunately, in those weren't severe cases, but the polio did affect their mobility.

I always vaccinate. My kids and I have all the suggested ones plus a few.

Not long after the time of those pictures when they first came out with vaccines and spread them around they started mandating them here. They mandated them in the minority areas forcefully and went through and burned the houses down afterwards just to be safe. This is where that movement was born. I has seen several iterations since. The current one seems to be a power struggle and everyone calling everyone stupid which never works (that is a science based opinion)

Measles are the threat right now not polio. It's my opinion if everyone stepped back and tried to communicate like humans about it we would have more success.

My first job - 13 on a farm - my bosse's wife had polio and was confined to a wheelchair. She ran the house and raised two little girls and "managed" well, as folks say. It still had to be hard on her and she died in her 50's due to complications from the disease.

vaccinations are not a black and white issue like anything in life. There are some good vaccines.. there are some not so good ones, and there are ingredients that are harmful. Instead of dividing people into do and don't camps, we need to listen to each other and examine how we can improve this important issue. We clearly have a percentage of the population being harmed by these...so how can we improve ( and reduce the amount) of vaccinations? We are all on the same side, we want healthier people. Name calling never helped to keep communications going.

I agree that we have a short memory. I'm getting a flu shot next week and in my early school daze I remember those with polio. Antivaxxers fall into a group of "dumbed down" people and this is all in the current plan. Confusion and distraction to the point that you do not know what to believe. This is how Trump and the Kochs will control us all and do exactly what they want. The problem here is that I here so many otherwise intelligent people claim that these days we do not know what to believe. Why? How would the election of Donald Trump change all of that?

As a species we’re going into reverse evolution...at least many of us are it appears! Yes,..we collectively do have very short memories, and the great scientific discoveries and advances in immunology we made over the past century and a half are being rubbished by uneducated conspiracy theorists on the Internet. Why do people prefer to listen to some unknown blogger rather than the medical profession and scientists? That is the worrying question we need to ask. Sadly, large numbers of people will die of completely preventable illnesses if we don’t get to grips with this problem of under-vaccination, perhaps we need to make it compulsory for children prior to school enrolment.

Many years ago Smallpox killed and maimed huge numbers, as many as one in four people could expect to get it. Those who survived were left disfigured, and it caused great shame because the wounds look a lot like Syphilis. ( Hence 'Small-Pox' ) It was the first disease ever to be completely eradicated, thanks to vaccinations, perhaps medicines greatest achievement, given the vast numbers of victims who had suffered.

Polio was almost about to go the same way and be gone forever, until the religious fundamentalists stopped the work, in part by putting out stories in the developing world, that vac's was a western conspiracy to cause sterility in Moslem men.

Darwinianism will weed out the idiots and their progeny. We need a good culling anyway...

I remember the first vaccines for polio and the number of kids that got polio that changed their lives forever. I grew up in a little backwater town, but the importance of vaccines was such that they had a health department nurse that came to the school for shot day. Everybody got shots unless they were allergic to the vaccine.