How can you be a doctor or nurse in this country and be anti-vaccine ? I do not get it...

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10. One thing that I'd love to see some data on is that I'd bet that veterinarians stand alone in

having the most limited opposition to vaccinations--from both the companion animal, livestock, and human point of view. Obviously, the training for veterinarians focuses far more on "herd health," pets to the contrary, than that provided future physicians. In addition, they are the front line for identifying zoonotic diseases that can be spread to humans. There is a reason why so many veterinarians take prominent public health positions--including at CDC and state/local health departments. Their training is often far more appropriate to epidemiology, disease control, and public health.

I have never come across an anti-vaxx veterinarian though there probably may be some. But, I'd bet $$ there are less than among those other professions, including clinical human medicine--who SHOULD know better.

Medical and nursing schools desperately need to bring more immunology, epidemiology, and public health to the curriculums. The programs once did. We suffer for their diminished influence.