People have become complacent Cinergy Health, a health insurance company that stresses preventive health care.
"Today's families are too young to remember the fatalities and disabilities that can result from influenza."
There are many children whose parents have decided not to vaccinate them for the other viruses of childhood, such as measles or rubella, and no serious repercussions have appeared.
“They are benefiting from 'herd immunity. If the majority of a school is vaccinated against a particular illness, then the un-immunized will also be protected--unless they travel to a country where a particular disease is more widespread.”
In many cases parents are worried that the vaccines themselves may cause illness, such as the development of Guillain-Barre syndrome. However this notion seems to be misguided, with scientists now stating that any connection that was apparent between the “swine flu” vaccine of the winter of 1976-77 and Guillain-Barre was overblown.
"Statistically, we know that a certain number of people are going to encounter various health problems, with or without receiving a vaccine."
The government is preparing baseline statistics to see what types of illnesses or other reactions would have happened anyway, even without administering the vaccine. Hopefully this will assuage concerns that the vaccines caused any harm.
To alleviate fears and encourage people to get vaccinated against H1N1 the government is watching the situation closely. According to a National Vaccine Program spokesman, who stated on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” out of 10 million swine flu doses that have already been administered, there have been no notable problems.
