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Crime for not vaccinating your child? Lately the papers are gushing with news about vaccinating children. The deputy health minister says he is planning to make it a crime for not vaccinating one's child. The minister of health disagrees. He prefers educating the parents instead. The Women's Ministry is mulling to prosecute parents who refuse to vaccinate their child. Some radio stations have come into the act too - vilifying parents who refuse to vaccinate their offspring. Statistic have been rolled out to show an increase of cases of measles and deaths from diphtheria - all attributed to a failure to vaccinate. No clear causal links have been established, though. To complicate matters, Indonesia acknowledged that since 2003, fake vaccines have been given to millions of children. This follows a scandal in China involving improperly stored vaccines distributed in 24 provinces since 2010. The United States Supreme Court has determined that vaccines are "una