Dr. Albert Karam told Newsweek that banning unvaccinated patients is an act of duty to the vulnerable children he treats.
After watching children fall ill with horrifying diseases such as measles at the start of his career in the early 1980s, Texas pediatrician Dr. Albert Karam says he never wants to see another child struck by an immunizable disease again. That is why the north Dallas doctor has banned unvaccinated patients from his office.
But vaccine hesitancy has caused rates to climb once again. Partly to blame is the anti-vaccine movement, which spreads lies on social media, including the repeatedly debunked claim that the measles, mumps and rubella jab has been linked to autism. One expert recently told Newsweek that 2019 could be the worst year for measles since 1989, and so concerned is the World Health Organization that it named vaccine hesitancy as one of the major global threats to health this year.
Acutely aware of the power of herd immunity and the suffering caused by vaccine-preventable conditions, Karam first introduced his no anti-vaxxers policy in the mid-1980s when he set up his practice.
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