In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes:

I don't know when this started but I know that this was the case in Ohio in
1987 when my younger daughter was born. The fact that states require the
immunizations for school is why the county boards of health were required to
make the shots available to all at cost. While they were actually cheaper
via the county board of health, there was often no physician on hand in case
of problems.

Amazing.

Yes many people are unaware of the death rates from some of these diseases.
For example, the death rate among children who caught whooping cough was
50%.

I didn't know it was that bad.

There is also a lot of bad science out there involving immunizations. For
example, there are still folks trying to sell the idea that immunizations are
somehow a cause of autism, even though repeated scientific studies have shown
no causality. There *is* a sort of correlation in that the first definitive
signs of autism are usually observed about the age of many common
immunizations.

73 de Jim, N2EY