Zuckerberg drops into vaccine debate with baby photo

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has dropped himself into the riotous social media debate over childhood vaccines after posting photos of himself taking his newborn daughter to get immunization shots at the doctor’s office.

His Facebook post on Friday shows a photo of Mr Zuckerberg holding his daughter, Max, alongside the caption “Doctor’s visit - time for vaccines!”

Mr Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced the birth of their child on December 1st.
By Monday, the image had generated more than 3 million likes and 69,000 comments, with many presuming the post was an implicit endorsement of child vaccinations.

The decision to vaccinate children has become a heated debate in the US over the past several years. Anti-vaccination advocates claim that inoculating children can cause diseases or developmental disorders, like autism.