Vaccinations are cost effective preventive health care. 
Parents should be proud to have our children protected from infectious diseases by taking them to physicians or public health clinics to receive immunizations. My parents were relieved to know that there were vaccines available to protect our family from smallpox, polio and other infectious illnesses. In the year 2000, the measles infections had been eradicated in the United States, because of the effective immunization available in the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine. In fact, we know how vaccines are safe because they have saved millions of children from suffering with preventable infectious diseases, including measles and polio. Therefore, as a registered nurse, I am proud to be one of many who will testify in favor of LD 798 in Augusta, “An Act To Protect Maine Children and Students from Preventable Diseases by Repealing Certain Exemptions from the Laws Governing Immunization Requirements”, when the bill is heard at a public legislative hearing. This is important legislation and passing the bill will protect the health of Maine citizens, and visitors to our state, by strengthening the requirements for compliance with vaccines administration. I encourage all Maine people to support vaccine protections against infectious diseases. Measles, chicken pox and polio are preventable with vaccines. I encourage legislators to support LD 798.  
Juliana L’Heureux, R.N., 
Topsham