Many Parents are Increasingly Delaying Vaccines

Giving the vaccine is a preventive effort against some serious infections that can cause death or disability. Unfortunately, there are still many myths about the vaccine makes parents hesitant to immunize their children.

The wrong opinion about the cause of doubt and delay of immunization, and even rejection of the vaccine. This phenomenon is actually happening in developed countries like the United States. In a study by Center for Disease Prevention (CDC) found that 39 percent of parents refusing or delaying administration of the vaccine to their children in the year 2008. This figure increased from 22 percent in 2003.

The reason parents postpone imuninasi diverse, among other health factors of children, consider vaccine for children is too many, and are less sure about the effectiveness of vaccines and worried at the possibility of autism, although many studies did not mention anything to do.

The results that concern the experts invited. Dr. Mark Sawyer, a pediatrician from Rady Childrens Hospital, San Diego, USA, says, parents need to alert to the risk of infection if the child is not vaccinated. "What must be considered is the benefit of the vaccine prevention of disease," he said.

In research published in the 2010 annual meeting of the pediatrician in Canada mentioned, 0.6 percent of children aged 19-35 months had not yet received the vaccine.

The parents whose child has been vaccinated also said to worry if their children contracting the disease than children who have not vaccinated. Although the risk is small, there remains a chance of transmission. More and more babies or children have had vaccinations, diminished transmission of the disease and thus reducing morbidity and mortality.