Well, I will vaccinate but can't give my baby the whooping cough vaccine until s/he's older. I don't want to defend pharaceutical companies, clearly they need to develop more effective vaccines and keep up with changing diseases - and I'm sure they're trying because they will make more money from a vaccine that's more effective. I know there are diseases that are beating vaccines at the moment, my niece was vaccinated against chicken pox and she still caught it this year from a kid from overseas. Then she exposed us to it as well. DS didn't catch it, presumably because he has been vaccinated and it did protect him in this instance. But doctors hardly ever see chicken pox now, when I was a child everyone expected to have it. So vaccines clearly do protect a huge number of people.

Anyway, I think what I'm really angry about is when sick people who know they have something come near me or my family. The number of times DH's family members have come over, kissed me and then revealed later on that they have some kind of illness astonishes me. That's nothing to do with vaccination, but it's irresponsible and inconsiderate. How do you tell people it's not appropriate to visit a newborn baby when they're sick? Everyone should know that and not need to be told. Sorry, a bit OTT but it's on my mind this morning after reading about that poor baby in the news.