I have chosen not to have my baby daughter immunised. I have not made this decision lightly. First, I thoroughly researched the immunisation issue.
In my opinion, and that of thousands of others, it is not my child who puts others at risk by not being immunised, but vice versa. It is highly unlikely that my child could infect others, who are supposedly protected by being immunised from the childhood diseases that at one time were a normal part of growing up. How is she going to contract the disease and pass it on if 99.9 per cent of the children in the nursery have been inoculated?
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