Is it safe to vaccinate children?

Risk:benefit: No medication, supplement or vaccine is 100% without risk to all people. In the case of vaccines, the risk of serious illness, disability or death is considered far higher than the risks of vaccination. For this reason, Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization have adopted vaccine schedule recommendations which have been spectacularly successful in reducing disease.

Not safe not to: Last year had about 40,000 pertussis cases and lost about 40 to pertussis, most under 1 year of age.Most were on the West coast where the anti-vaccine movement is strong.In the 90's when most parents vaccinated their kids we had about 2500 cases/yr and no pertussis deaths. Vaccines have been the greatest benefit of medicine for kids in more than 100 yrs. Sad that some fear it so.