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The problem with not being vaccinated is not that your child will not live through the disease, it's that you will want treatment for your child, our immune systems are wonderfully adaptive, but antibiotics and other treatments are not. each time a disease is treated there is a good chance that the organism will change or be strengthened against that treatment. vaccines work by using your own adaptive immune system not a static treatment. already we have seen infections that are resistant to the normal treatments, and the more these disease are allowed to spread the more they will gain in resistance.
also for those that believe that these diseases such as polio and smallpox are no longer a problem here in the united states forget that we are a nation of immigrants, and these diseases still exist in many countries around the world.
It's a tough choice to immunize your child when there are claims unproven or not of problems arising from the vaccines, but they need to remember they run the risk of creating a much more virulent strain of any disease and causing a much larger problem.

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