'We don't want to go backwards in our mortality,' Dr. Noni MacDonald says
As Washington state grapples with a measles epidemic, one health expert is arguing that vaccinations are a child's human right.
"The right to immunization is really important," said Dr. Noni MacDonald, professor of pediatrics at Dalhousie University, and a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.
"We know in the last 100 years in Canada, we increased our survival rate by about 30 years," she told The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.
She added that 25 of those 30 extra years of longevity could be attributed to clean water, antibiotics and immunization. "If we don't immunize we go backwards, and we don't want to go backwards in our mortality."
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