VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|HarryR|DATE|1366547875|CONTENT|Don&#039;t children get called in for vaccinations based on their age? In which case it is opt-out. If a child is not bought in for vaccination that would presumably be noted by the NHS and a follow-up contact will be made and pursued until confirmation from the parent/guardian that they don&#039;t wish to proceed.

I read somewhere that TB patients can be subject to enforced treatment as many start the medication, lose symptoms and them stop taking the drugs before the course is complete, they can be taken into hospital and kept there until the course has been completed. If that applies to TB presumably it applies to any serious and very contagious illness.

What&#039;s interesting about the loss of confidence in MMR was that those parents who refused to vaccinate their children chose to trust Wakefield over established medical practice. I assume Wakefield was not a figure known to the general public until his claims. His claims were supposedly scientifically based but so was MMR use and MMR had broad support and acceptance within the medical establishment in the UK and around the world. Why would millions of people take the word of an unknown researcher making claims contradicted by every other source of medical advice - the same people providing healthcare in every other aspect of people&#039;s lives?

Did the media enjoy the storm and encourage it by being positive about the brave lone heroic researcher Wakefield challenging the establishment who were willing to risk children as MMR was cheaper than 3 separate shots? Was there a New Age element where some people are always willing to believe anything critical of established practice?

Even less understandable is that as time passed and Wakefield was discredited despite his appeals, why did those parents not then have their children vaccinated? Or when the first of that generation started to die in their late teens and early 20s? Or why did those children now adults not get themselves vaccinated?|IP-ADDRESS|77.12.31.242|MODERATIONFLAG|