So if you frequent my blog, you know that I like to complain and I absolutely hate the anti vaccine movement, I think it’s fucking stupid.  To all parents, vaccinating your kids is the smart and right thing to do, don’t buy the hippy mumbo jumbo that the anti vaxers are spreading.  Anyway when I read shit like this it makes my head explode!

“It’s a real puzzle for us why people haven’t responded better to the news about this disease,” said Paul Throne of the state Office of Immunization and Child Profile. He thought the news reports would have scared parents. Rather, studies found the dire news appears to have emboldened them.

Parents are also increasingly opting out of the polio vaccine. Seventeen years ago, 95.4 percent of kindergarteners in Washington state were vaccinated for polio.

This year, 88.4 percent had the vaccine.

It’s even more dramatic in Seattle, where 81.4 percent of kindergarteners have been vaccinated for polio. That’s lower than the 2013 polio immunization rates for 1-year-olds in Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Algeria, El Salvador, Guyana, Sudan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Yemen, among other countries, according to data from the World Health Organization.

Source: KUOW

How the Western world can turn its back on modern medicine is beyond me…  I mean I have qualms with how some things are done in the medical industry yes but vaccines work and no one should get the diseases that were the scourge of the old world.