Anti-vaxxer Parents Unwelcome at More Dallas Clinics Amid Latest Measles Scare

Dr. Albert Karam knows how important vaccines are for children. He’s seen firsthand how immunizations virtually eradicated measles, the disease that made him seriously ill as a child in the 1960s.While sick with measles as a child, he recalled, he screamed and cried whenever someone turned on the lights, and his skin darkened from hemorrhaging.“I never, ever, ever want to see another measles case again,” he said last month at a news conference highlighting the importance of immunizing children.Karam's Dallas pediatrics office has a policy of not taking unvaccinated patients. It’s something he firmly believes in — he said he can't risk unimmunized children spreading illness to infants still too young to have been inoculated.His policy has been around since he started his practice in 1985, he said. Now, he sees more of his peers turning away unvaccinated patients — a policy that only gained acceptance by the American Academy of Pediatrics a few years ago.  Continue reading...