Reply To: Vaccines in the frum community

“P.S. If you don’t vaccinate your children, I’m interested to hear why not. (Also I’d like to make sure that no one in my family has any contact with you or your children).”

“Not really. I don’t think I asked for such personal information from a complete stranger.”

You said you do some but not all. That means you have put thought into it. I’m looking for those like Chance, who say all vaccines are the devil. I (probably) have no issues with what you did and did not do.

I agree with you on the rest, except for your glaring omission of arguably the most important vaccine for travelers and for people in contact with travelers: yellow fever.

Agreed. Didn’t think of “exotics”.

As you see, good reasons for declining potentially life-savings vaccinations exist. You are proof of it.

I agree 100%. I did not say smallpox either. And once again, yellow fever has a different transmission vector, so it in not in the same Parsha (although it is more similar) as something that has airborne transmission.