Those numbers were said to decrease throughout the nineteen-twenty's when vaccinations became more prevalent within the United States. With the help of vaccinations the disease, Diphtheria has become almost completely eradicated. That is not saying that it cannot still be transmitted, but it is rare. Which is something that is only possible with the help of vaccines.
It has been recently stated in an article published on the CNN website titled "California Set to Mandate Childhood Vaccines amid Intense Fight" by a writer, Jennifer Medina, who specializes her writing to education, which stated that "California is now starting to follow the states of Mississippi and West Virginia by stopping the exemptions on religious and philosophical beliefs on anti-vaccinations" (Medina). This will help tremendously because California has a high influence throughout the medical field within the United States, "School children in California would be required to be vaccinated unless there is a medical reason not to do so" (Medina, Jennifer). If the bill that has been proposed to stop the exemptions on religious views is passed many vaccine preventable disease outbreaks will decrease tremendously and even become a problem of America's past, much like the disease small pox. This is because American states are known to follow each other when it comes to upgrades and or changes in different things that occur within in the medical field. This new bill will also help the children who are medically incapable of receiving the vaccines because they will not be at risk while trying to get their education, due to the concept of herd immunity. .
In some scenarios, anti-vaccination parents are skeptical of the vaccines and the organisms that will enter their children's bodies. Due to this fear some parents try to rely on the concept of herd immunity. Karen D. Brown, a writer from the Boston Globe wrote an article titles "Parents Refusing Disease", discussing the fears of disease outbreaks in the healthcare community, Brown describes herd immunity as "enough people have been vaccinated which makes the spread of disease unlikely" (Brown).
