Impact of Hesitancy for Michigan

While vaccine hesitancy is not new, it can leave families unprotected against preventable disease and threatens the health of our communities. Michigan has first-hand experience with measles outbreaks occurring in communities with low vaccination rates.²⁹ Michigan has also witnessed families who have lost their children to vaccine-preventable diseases like pertussis (whooping cough)³⁰ and the flu.³¹ These experiences can be mitigated when families embrace vaccination.

For Michigan specific vaccine preventable outbreaks, please review the Summary of Vaccine Preventable Diseases Report.³²

To research a Michigan family that has suffered the consequences of a vaccine preventable death, please read this impactful story.³³