A 12-year-old boy secretly seeking something his parents had always denied him recently visited Dr. Eric Cadesky. The boy’s parents had chosen not to vaccinate their son after being exposed to “fear-based” anti-vaxx propaganda, said Cadesky, a family physician and president of Doctors of BC. As Timothy Caulfield recently told the Canadian Medical Association Journal, “As a thought experiment, you could imagine a teen saying, ‘You knew I wasn’t vaccinated. However, he also respects a capable youth’s decision not to involve the parents. Other vaccines the Public Health Agency of Canada recommends for teens include hepatitis B, meningococcal, a tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis booster, the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine and a seasonal flu shot.

Source: National Post March 27, 2019 17:37 UTC