&gt;&gt;and that Merck has discovered that it&#x27;s a new stream of profits by convincing doctors that everyone should take vaccines for low-risk diseases.<p>Depends on what you mean by &quot;low-risk disease.&quot; If you mean diseases that are rarely seen, then I think you need to re-examine your stance. The reason a lot of those diseases are low-risk is because the population has herd-immunity from decades of vaccination. This is a good thing. But if people stop vaccinating against those diseases, they will become higher risk.