Surprise! Relatively small decreases in vaccine uptake can lead to big increases in vaccine-preventable disease!

Whenever vaccine uptake falls to a level below that needed to maintain herd immunity, the risk of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases climbs. It doesn't take that dramatic of a decline. Here's a study that shows how a small decrease in vaccine uptake can lead to a large increase in disease.

Source: Respectful Insolence - July 26, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking community immunity herd immunity Peter Hotez Texas vaccines Source Type: blogs