“West Virginia is in trouble,” Meredith Snead, a concerned native of the state who is spearheading the effort, told me of Senate Bill 359. Please consider that mandatory vaccination without religious or personal exemptions in order to attend public school has led to higher vaccination rates overall. According to this 2015 WV-DHHR report, the vaccination rates were all 97% or better. Senator Robert Karnes (R), for one, seems unaware of the dire consequences of low vaccination rates. He must not realize that people in other states may be “living okay” overall but that low vaccination rates cause preventable illness, suffering and death.

Source: Forbes February 23, 2017 15:22 UTC