"Minke" used to get her kids vaccinated, though she never felt right about it. The thought of injecting her children with a foreign substance — one that might cause them to run a fever or have an allergic reaction — scared her, even if it might protect them from measles, polio and other life-threatening diseases.
But three years ago, when her youngest daughter's pediatrician said it was time for a chickenpox shot, she balked. After all, kids get chickenpox all the time, she thought.
That's when Minke became an anti-vaxxer.
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