Every year, vaccinations prevent nearly two to three million deaths. To prevent mass outbreaks, vaccination should be mandatory for everyone, including children. No federal law requires you to get vaccinated, but every state requires children to receive certain vaccines in order to attend public school. No one should have the right to endanger public health safety. The American Academy of Pediatrics has stated that the majority of childhood vaccines are 90-99% effective in preventing disease, while the FDA guarantees the safety and effectiveness of all vaccines. Vaccinated children who have contracted illness generally have moderate symptoms compared to unvaccinated children. Medical technology has advanced so much that children can now be protected from deadly diseases that once injured and killed thousands of children. Their success has meant that most diseases have disappeared or are on the verge of disappearing. Only recently has the vaccination rate dropped and become a public health concern. In the United States, the vaccination rate is around 90%, while in the United Kingdom the rate is less than 80%. Reported cases of measles fell by almost 99% after the vaccine was introduced in the early 1960s. Measles almost tripled in the United States, when the average was only 63 cases per year. People are now catching the disease in the United States, causing numerous outbreaks. In April 2014, authorities reported 129 cases of measles, mainly in California and New York. Many travelers have caught the virus abroad, such as in the Philippines, where an outbreak has caused at least 20,000 illnesses and spread to unvaccinated people....... middle of paper .... .. and other neurological disorders, yet there is no scientific evidence to support this. Those who oppose vaccines believe that polio and other contagious diseases can be wiped out through better sanitation. Others believe that when a child receives multiple vaccines at once, it may weaken their immune system. In early July 2013, the CDC published an article on its website estimating that approximately 98 million Americans who received the polio vaccine over the past eight years had received vaccines containing a cancer-causing virus known as SV40 . In May 2010, federal health officials advised doctors to stop using Rotarix, one of the few vaccines approved in the United States to prevent rotavirus, because it was contaminated with material from a swine virus. In 2009, Baxter flu vaccines were accidentally contaminated with samples of the avian flu virus..