Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/C6W16gsLYG9/ The most common diseases of childhood, measles, whooping cough, mumps, diphtheria, and meningitis, once almost completely eradicated,  are now being regularly reported in Europe.  They will almost certainly spread across the ocean to your neighborhood.  This resurgence of communicable diseases is due to one public health disaster.  That is a rising tendency for parents and travelers to refuse vaccines for their children and for themselves. The two vaccines, MMR agains measles, mumps, and rubella, and DTaP against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis are time-tested to be safe and dramatically effective.  In fact, these vaccines are significantly more effective than flu vaccine and induce immunity against contracting diseases that endures far longer than the similarly highly effective CoVid vaccines. So why aren't people vaccinating.  Many have been mislead by lies about all vaccines on social or alternative media, and some have religious objections to v