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Opponents of the bill, assembled their contentions against vaccination on strong faith or religion. Some also claim youth illnesses were not seen as a risk, but rather as a feature of the regular method to fortify their body and to gain a “natural” and thus strong immunity.5
Parents understand vaccination as a simulated interruption into the natural evolution of the immune system and fear overloading the still immature immune system of their young children and infants through vaccination. Streefland validates that there is a trend, particularly among well-educated parent in Europe and the U.S.A. to believe in safekeeping good health by maintaining bodily balances and gaining immunity in a natural way.5
Vaccines are prophylactic and effective. On the other hand, they are neither flawlessly safe nor perfectly successful. Most adverse outcomes associated with vaccines are minor and include local soreness or redness at the infusion site or maybe fever for a day. With the minor side effects and implications it makes sense to vaccinate children at birth to prevent them from contracting preventable