Children under the age of five with the flu are contagious for about eight days, and, according to a 2012 CDC study, cost their parents an average of eleven to seventy-three hours of wages (about two hundred and twenty-two dollars to $1,456) and three hundred dollars to $4,000 in medical expenses. Another good example would be children with rotavirus, who are infectious for up to thirty days; a January 2008 outbreak of measles in San Diego, California resulted in eleven unvaccinated children catching measles and a resulting net public-sector cost of $10,376 per case (or, $123,512 total) due to emergency vaccination and outbreak response ("Vaccines ProCon.org"). Increased rates of vaccination against rotavirus, measles, and malaria over the next ten years will save about $6.2 billion in treatment costs and about one hundred and forty-five billion dollars in productivity losses ("Measles
Children under the age of five with the flu are contagious for about eight days, and, according to a 2012 CDC study, cost their parents an average of eleven to seventy-three hours of wages (about two hundred and twenty-two dollars to $1,456) and three hundred dollars to $4,000 in medical expenses. Another good example would be children with rotavirus, who are infectious for up to thirty days; a January 2008 outbreak of measles in San Diego, California resulted in eleven unvaccinated children catching measles and a resulting net public-sector cost of $10,376 per case (or, $123,512 total) due to emergency vaccination and outbreak response ("Vaccines ProCon.org"). Increased rates of vaccination against rotavirus, measles, and malaria over the next ten years will save about $6.2 billion in treatment costs and about one hundred and forty-five billion dollars in productivity losses ("Measles