Reports of children having bad reactions to vaccines abound, causing some parents to refuse to get their children vaccinated. Good Housekeeping reports that it is in everyone's best interest to get children vaccinated. A child who gets the mumps has a 1 in 300 chance of contracting encephalitis afterwards, according to Good Housekeeping. But the risk of a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine against measles and mumps is less than 1 in 1 million.
Experts say the Internet is fueling vaccine anxiety.
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