May be of interest. Australian Time differs slightly from the USA version, but this particular one seems to be a NY article.
Here you can get access to the article
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1059060,00.html
... but I have this snippet from the last column:
"In the States, officials claim not to be worried about the risk of a domestic outbreak- for now. 'Over coverage rates are at all-time highs' says Kegan (Robert Kegan, deputy director of the CDC's global immunisation division). 'The chance of an epidemic in the US is very low.
But low does not mean nonexistent, and the parents of a lot of at-risk kids all over the globe are doing nothing to reduce the danger. Look at the US.: ninety-two percent of American children aged 19 months to 35 months receive three or more doses of polio vaccine, but those numbers aren't distributed evenly. Up to 2.1 million children in that age group may either be undervaccinated or entirely unvaccinated each year. Many come from poor or uninsured families with no access to health care or health information. Others are on the opposite end of the demographic arc - well-educated and comparatively wealthy families who opt out of vaccinations for their children because they are suspicious of vaccines in general or because their religious beliefs forbid them. "
(Jeffery Kluger, reported by Helena Bachmann/Geneva, Sora Song/New York and Jason Tedjasukmana/Cidadap, Time Australia May 16th 2005, page 53).
Here you can get access to the article
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1059060,00.html
... but I have this snippet from the last column:
"In the States, officials claim not to be worried about the risk of a domestic outbreak- for now. 'Over coverage rates are at all-time highs' says Kegan (Robert Kegan, deputy director of the CDC's global immunisation division). 'The chance of an epidemic in the US is very low.
But low does not mean nonexistent, and the parents of a lot of at-risk kids all over the globe are doing nothing to reduce the danger. Look at the US.: ninety-two percent of American children aged 19 months to 35 months receive three or more doses of polio vaccine, but those numbers aren't distributed evenly. Up to 2.1 million children in that age group may either be undervaccinated or entirely unvaccinated each year. Many come from poor or uninsured families with no access to health care or health information. Others are on the opposite end of the demographic arc - well-educated and comparatively wealthy families who opt out of vaccinations for their children because they are suspicious of vaccines in general or because their religious beliefs forbid them. "
(Jeffery Kluger, reported by Helena Bachmann/Geneva, Sora Song/New York and Jason Tedjasukmana/Cidadap, Time Australia May 16th 2005, page 53).
