Unvaccinated kids put all of us at risk

9 hours ago • Arizona Daily Star

Arizona kids are supposed to be immunized against several contagious diseases in order to attend school.

But many of them are not, and the state does nothing to enforce the law requiring vaccinations.

As a result, one-third of the state’s kindergartners last year were in classes with immunization rates so low the kids were at risk for outbreaks of infectious diseases such as measles, mumps or pertussis.

An outbreak could be catastrophic to babies too young to be immunized, to people whose compromised immune systems make them susceptible to diseases they are vaccinated against, and to those whose inoculations simply didn’t work.

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