I live in Baltimore, one of the places where measles (considered eradicated from the United States) has hit. While the majority of the people I know are vaccinated and vaccinate their children, there are those who think that measles and the like are innocuous childhood diseases. As a genealogist, I've seen how many children died before we had vaccinations. And as an aunt to a niece who ended up in the ICU because of a vaccine-preventable disease, I've seen what the lack of herd immunity is doing.
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Jewish Deaths, Volovets District, 1892 |