A vaccine for stupidity wouldn't help because they wouldn't take it

This is absolutely disgraceful.

US Measles Cases Highest In A Decade Due To Vaccination Fears

Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of those involving children whose parents rejected vaccination, health officials reported Thursday.

Worried doctors are troubled by the trend fueled by unfounded fears that vaccines may cause autism. The number of cases is still small, just 131, but that's only for the first seven months of the year. There were only 42 cases for all of last year.

The science on this issue is clear. Vaccinations do not cause autism. By spreading this fear, the anti-vaxxers are putting childrens' lives at risk.

The nation once routinely saw hundreds of thousands of measles cases each year, and hundreds of deaths. But immunization campaigns were credited with dramatically reducing the numbers. The last time health officials saw this many cases was 1997, when 138 were reported.

The Academy of Pediatrics has made educating parents about the safety of vaccines one of its top priorities this year. That's partly because busy doctors have grown frustrated by the amount of time they're spending answering parents' questions about things they read on the Internet or heard from TV talk shows.

Vaccines have saved millions of lives and greatly increased our life expectancy. Anti-vaxxers may have good intentions, but their anti-science bias blinds them. By sowing this confusion, they will be responsible for the resultant deaths.