Vaccination Dilemma: Parents’ Vaccine Hesitancy Versus Informed Teenagers’ Accept – Case Report

Abstract

and started an information campaign to encourage parents to have their children vaccinated. In our country, the main ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACTIn Romania, as in the rest of the world, there is an increase in the number of measles cases, a consequence of the vaccine hesitation. In this paper, we propose to discuss a case from our medical practice: the parents' refusal to vaccinate their children against MMR (rubella-mumps-measles) on the one hand and, on the other hand, their teenage son desire to be vaccinated, so that he would be protected of infections that can affect his health.