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Vaccine Hesitancy is all too common and it is known to be a major factor in healthcare expenses simply because vaccines do safely prevent many diseases. A most recent example of this is the outbreak of Measles in United States after years of being eliminated.

Documented misinformation has reappeared many times in Social Media. A recent reported example making false claims about Childhood vaccination of Measles started on Twitter and was rapidly appearing Facebook. Factcheck.com has documented a particularly pernicious instance of this Here is what Darla Shne wrote:

Here we go LOL #measlesoutbreak on #CNN #Fake #Hysteria

The entire Baby Boom population alive today had the #Measles as kids

Bring back our #ChildhoodDiseases they keep you healthy & fight cancer

An attempt was made to have the author of this misinformation explain or defend her position for this notice with no result. We must therefore conclude that the Factcheck.com analysis should stand without any acceptable excuse for the misinformation. Wanting your children to have childhood diseases as a form of harmless vaccination is known to be a badly informed choice.