By: James Felton/IFLScience Rebecca Bredow and her ex-husband are embroiled in a court battle over the issue. Her ex-husband, Jason Horne, believes that their son should be vaccinated against potentially life-threatening diseases, including measles, mumps, and rubella. Bredow feels differently. “I would rather sit behind bars standing up for what I believe in than giving in to something I strongly…
France Is Making Vaccinations For 11 Diseases Compulsory From Next Year
By: Tome Hale/IFL Science Parents in France will be legally obliged to vaccinate their children against 11 common illness from 2018 onwards. Currently, only three vaccines – diphtheria, tetanus, and polio – are compulsory in France. This new plan wants to extend this to include eight more: measles, hepatitis B, influenza, whooping cough, mumps, rubella, pneumonia, and meningitis…
Germany Will Start Fining Parents Who Don’t Vaccinate Their Kids
By: Mark Pygas/Distractify In this day and age, many people seem to have forgotten just how bad things were before vaccinations. So much so that some parents now refuse to have their children vaccinated because of the false belief that vaccines cause autism. According to the World Health Organization, the measles vaccine is believed to have saved…
Italy To Make Vaccinations Mandatory For Schoolchildren
By: Robin Adrews/IFL Science Echoing a similar move by Australia, Italy’s Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin has announced that any children without the appropriate vaccinations will not be allowed to attend state-funded schools. After a cabinet meeting, she told reporters that her authored white paper on the matter had been seen by ministers and that by the…