Vaccination scare stories

It outrages me people can indulge in scaremongering with no scientific evidence to back them up.

Otis has already had his first set if vaccinations. They weren't fun, two jabs, he cried - I cried, he slept a lot and then it was over 48 hours later. He's due his next set now and he'll definitely be getting them too.

There was never any doubt in my mind that Otis would get them and he'll certainly be getting the MMR when he's due to.

I am staunchly pro-vaccination and I'll tell you why. In the 1970s there was a scare about the whooping cough vaccination. My mum was sucked in by the media scare stories and didn't give me the shot.
Aged six months I got whooping cough.
My mum says it was terrible, I was so ill, so young and she knew she could've prevented it. As a mother it was pretty hard to take - needless to say we were all vaccinated for everything after that.

That report linking MMR with autism? Rubbished, there is no link.
The truth? A dramatic leap in the cases of measles up 36% in a year. Facts about measles? Around one in every 15 children has complications that can include meningitis, pneumonia, fits, encephalitis (swelling of the brain), blindness and brain damage. In very serious cases measles can be fatal.

There's some real scaremongering for you.