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National vaccination against pertussis is 90 percent. In Barneveld, it's much lower, 70%. The village is in the so-called Biblebelt, where people for religious reasons do not vaccinate their children often enough. While the disease can be life-threatening for babies up to one year.
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"Vaccinations are not for nothing"
"You do not want that," said a lady at van Barneveld's center. "These vaccinations are not for nothing, I am a Christian myself, so I say that if the Lord does not like it, he would not have invented this vaccine." Another resident: "C & # 39; is a very serious childhood illness, then you do not want these little ones to go underneath, I do not really see that any god would have liked it. "The female factor is certainly:" Outrage , that many people do not vaccinate here.It is a contagious disease. "
" For your neighbor "
Why now the number of cases of whooping cough has increased, is not known. The GGD will do at least something about it. "Parents with children up to one year all receive a letter from us and pregnant women are alerted to early vaccination during their pregnancy," says Allard Schimmel of GGD Gelderland-Midden.
"What we do with this action is the at-risk group, from zero to one, to get them vaccinated. Because vaccination is always voluntary. A resident: "You can not oblige either, but I think you owe it to your peers."
See also: Sudden rise of whooping cough in Barneveld, parents receiving the letter [19659009] Do you have comments or additions to this post? Send the editors by email: [email protected]. Or send us a WhatsApp message directly: 06 – 220 543 52
