What is the deal with everyone's suggestion about giving their child mmr vaccine?

I did for mine: Look at the united kingdom's mumps crisis in which 57, 000 cases of mumps alone occurred in 2005 most in young people ages 15-24. Mumps, while often benign, brings risk for pancreatitis, encephalitis, & infertility through inflammation of testes. Kids were not immunized there. Europe's current measles crisis has 90% of cases among adults and teens who were never vaccinated. The numbers are profound.

Do it : As long as we have international air travel, a passenger from an unvaccinated population can come to your grocery store and pass the germ to your kid before they became sick. The same can happen from the unvaccinated kid down the block that attends your kids daycare.Take a walk through an old cemetary and spot the little headstones from the years before vaccines.