| Re: Belgium sends parents to prison for refusing to vaccinate their children
After some research I'm going to admit that I was wrong on one point - the single jags isn't licenced in the UK (and thus I don't know what you were talking about in reference to 'private clinics')
The reason for this - they haven't met safety standards and aren't recommended in any country they are available in. Would you rather give your child something that hasn't met the stringent safety standards of medicine in this country, or something that has been given to millions of children over the past 20 years with viritally non-existant percentage of ill effects?
There are plenty of reasons why the single vaccines are not recommended:
- they simply aren't as safe
- any side effects that can occur (which as I said may occur with any vaccines, and even more so with unlicenced drugs) have a 3-fold chance of occuring as you are giving the child 3 times as many doses of vaccine
- If a child has an adverse reaction to one of the injections there is an extremely high chance that the parents will be unwilling to bring him back for the remainder of the course. There is good evidence that this occurs on a pretty regular basis.
- The prolonged period between the vaccinations leaves the child more succeptable to both getting one of the diseases and passing it on to a friend or younger sibling. | 
