Vaccines are unquestionably good for society, are they also unquestionably good for the individual?

I realize this is a hot topic, so I broach it here with some trepidation.

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PURPOSE OF THIS POST: I’m looking for links to (and summaries of) credible articles about the risk of vaccinating versus the risk of not vaccinating to the individual, to the child.
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I just read a Wired article that clearly outlines the risk to us all of a rising trend of not-vaccinating – An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All

The article says that science is as conclusive as it can be that vaccinations (and mercury preservatives and large numbers of concurrent vaccinations) are NOT linked to autism or any other negative side effects (other than a very very small risk of contracting the disease itself).

But then it also admits a snag (I’m including the full context here, but the emphasis is mine and is the thrust of the question):

“Getting the measles is no walk in the park, either — not for you or those who come near you. In 2005, a 17-year-old Indiana girl got infected on a trip to Bucharest, Romania. On the return flight home, she was congested, coughing, and feverish but had no rash. The next day, without realizing she was contagious, she went to a church gathering of 500 people. She was there just a few hours. Of the 500 people present, about 450 had either been vaccinated or had developed a natural immunity. Two people in that group had vaccination failure and got measles. Thirty-two people who had not been vaccinated and therefore had no resistance to measles also got sick. Did the girl encounter each of these people face-to-face in her brief visit to the picnic? No. All you have to do to get the measles is to inhabit the airspace of a contagious person within two hours of them being there.

The frightening implications of this kind of anecdote were illustrated by a 2002 study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Looking at 3,292 cases of measles in the Netherlands, the study found that the risk of contracting the disease was lower if you were completely unvaccinated and living in a highly vaccinated community than if you were completely vaccinated and living in a relatively unvaccinated community. Why? Because vaccines don’t always take. What does that mean? You can’t minimize your individual risk unless your herd, your friends and neighbors, also buy in.”

The study’s conclusion seems to me to pit the interests of the individual against that of society. If it’s actually safer for one individual to choose to NOT be vaccinated as long as everyone around them is vaccinated than for one individual to get vaccinated when folks around them are not, then I can’t make my kids safe by vaccinating them alone – I need to convince my community to vaccinate.

Thoughts? Links?