Chances are, you’ve never had to worry about contracting small pox, tuberculosis or polio, but less than 100 years ago that might not have been the case.

Vaccines have radically changed public health, completely eradicating the smallpox disease while largely preventing the spread of many others.

But while the benefits of immunization might be obvious to most of us, not everybody feels that way. And that dangerous doubt is starting to catch up with us.

In California, where immunization rates for kindergarteners have been falling since 2008, a whooping cough outbreak in 2010 resulted in more than 9,000 cases of disease — 10 of which were fatal.

And California is not the only state where this exemption from vaccination is becoming commonplace. Parts of Washington and Michigan are also experiencing similar rises in reported peruses cases.

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