As some politicians continue to emphasize personal choice when it comes to vaccinations, doctors and infectious disease specialists point out that getting vaccinated not only protects the individual, but also the community.

While currently available vaccines have been FDA-approved as safe and effective, no vaccine offers 100% protection. Because of this, individual protection from a particular disease is based not just on whether you are vaccinated against it, but also on whether those around you are vaccinated. That's because vaccinations reduce the opportunity for a disease to spread.

If you are less likely to be exposed, experts say, you are less likely to be infected.

"I think one of the things that anti-vaccine activists say that I find most worrisome is when they say, What do you

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