The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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Measles causes immune system amnesia. Your system loses the "memory", and therefore ability to fight infections - not just the measles. https://asm.org/Articles/201...
One of the results documented from measles vaccination of large portion of a population is a decline in many other types of infections. Eliminating measles has additional benefits.
it's horrifying. You don't just get sick for a couple weeks. Instead, measles resets the human immune system back to an immature state with only limited ability to respond to new infections. This explains why children often succumb to other infectious diseases after they have had measles.
My sister was very nearly one of those victims. Meningoencephalitis, post measles, she was given survival odds of a mere 5%.
It wiped her out at the age of four, literally. Her entire memory. She had to learn how to do EVERYTHING again. Speech. Walking. It severely affected her for many many years.
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During my mother’s third trimester (1958) with me, she contracted rubella and had a temperature of 104. I was born deaf as a result of this, and have upper respiratory problems. These anti-vaxxers are bringing back deseases that were eradicated through vaccines. Mutations are a big concern.
Back then, it was advised that prepubescent girls intentionally got rubella because of possible birth defects if she got rubella when pregnant later in life. I remember having to drink out of the same straw as my cousin when she had rubella so I would get them.
Oh my goodness that’s awful. I had them when I was a child. I also had whooping cough and the mumps. I don’t know why anyone would want to put their child through that.
My mother's cousin was born with severe spina bifida because her mother contracted rubella during pregnancy. Vaccines are so effective that a lot of people have forgotten what it was like without them
This letter should be read out loud for all the conservatives to hear. I'm confident listening to this heartbreaking story will make them act immediately and ban and burn all books by Roald Dahl.
Heartbreaking. There are generations of physicians who never seen these terrible childhood disease, treating something so preventable is going to be hard.
Part of the problem around immunizations is that people don't remember or never knew what it was like to get sick with any of the illnesses. We take for granted that we don't have to worry about polio or measles or chicken pox or tetanus or meningitis and others because it's not a problem anymore.
It's not a problem anymore because people have gotten immunized against the disease, thereby lessening the susceptibility of transmission. With the shots, you can get outbreaks but they're small and usually controllable. Without the shots, you get a spread like covid, especially in schools and work.
Yep. When public health strategies are successful they are invisible. Because of all the tragedies that DON’T happen. Then people forget, stop vaccinating. And the cycle repeats. Some people are just unteachable.
People refuse to see what is written in stone if you go to any cemetery you can see all the little headstones from kids that at one point coinciding with vaccination just stop happening. You don't see things like a headstone that says "Arnold Raymond Riopelle 1931-1935" after vaccination comes to be
That's my great uncle who knows what kind of man he would have become if it weren't for meningitis. I can only wonder. He would be young enough that I, born in 1984, could have known him had he lived like his 3 siblings 1928-1980, 1933-present and 1941-2008
Measles is in the herpes family so viral encephalitis is pretty serious shit-people get that from West Nile virus & Covid. It can do permanent damage and the patient can have relapses whenever their body is stressed over their lifetime. Brain damage too is possible- people are idiots
Shortly after my grandpa had his fifth kid Mom brought home mumps there were no more kids after that, Grandpa got mumps and when you get mumps as an adult male it can sterilize you I'm not 100% certain he didn't have more kids because of that or if they actively didn't want anymore kids but still
This is the thing, people don’t realise that viruses can make you go blind or deaf! My eye damage is measles, my partner has hearing damage from chicken pox!
Same. I was the same age as you. Missed my vaccine due to an admin error. (in UK we were given them at school) I have high myopia and vitreous retinal detachment from measles. My eyes went shortsighted around a month into being off school with measles. I was so ill.
Thats the MMR - in the 1970’s we were given separate vaccinations at school for measles and also the smallpox vaccine - the one that causes the scar. I was off school the day they came in to do measles and they didn’t inform my mother. My brothers had theirs thankfully.
A lot of us old people had measles in the 60’s and suffered. Why anyone would want their kid to go through that, tells me - they’ve never had it themselves. Plus, the harm it can do to the unborn.
It’s unbelievable that we’re having this conversation. Dr. Fauci’s retirement should be the peaceful pinnacle of a career working for public health. Instead, that dangerous nitwit RFK Jr haunts all our dreams
But God and Adolf Abbott will fix it right? 🙄 The Hillbilly Taliban is going to see thousands of children die or become permanently disabled but, pro life. 🙄🙄🙄 As a Texan I am so ashamed of the great dumbing down of my state. Mediaeval policy and beliefs are ruining everything.
Vaccinate your children
I know we just put an anti-vaxer in charge of HHS
Yes that is insanity
But you can still get your children vaccinated for all childhood diseases and viruses
That was so tragic. I am almost the exact same age as his daughter and I’m fortunate that the only lasting effects from my childhood measles are the possibility of shingles, which I hope to be protected from by a vaccine.
Am old enough to remember the whole household in QT. My hands in taped on mittens so I could not scratch and having to be in a darkened room for a week . Gramma read to me when I was awake. I was I think 8 . It was treated not lightly. Vaccines !!!
Just look at the figures, as a Dutch, these apply to the Netherlands, children <5 yrs old. The national vaccination program started in 1962:
Child mortality rate increased from 18 per 1000 in 1960 to 9 in 1980. In 2010, an average of 3.78 children died for every 1000 born in the Netherlands.
The reactionary right-wing in the US is also pro-natalist, and believes women's work is to bear children.
I'd guess they'd like to return to a past where childhood illnesses killed 50% of children before age 5 -- because it also meant that women bore (or had to bear) more children.
I feel so sorry for the innocent little kids who are being so brazenly put at risk by their stupid parents. What a curse to be born into a country with preventive care readily available but to idiots who reject it. Where’s THEIR so-called right to life?
Claiming that you or your child's immune system is superior and can resist disease should remember that FDR had every advantage in life yet still succumbed to polio.
My mother found me lying on the floor of our living room hallucinating. I was talking to Lincoln on the head of a penny. My mother said that it was affecting my brain. They rushed to have a doctor arrive, who submerged me in a bath tub filled with ice. I was only 6.
My Mum didn't want me to have the MMR vaccine (I'd already had mumps and my immune system is shot so she was worried about overload) so I had measles and rubella separately. There are other ways. Antivaxers throw the baby out with the bath water...
The politicalization of public health is one of the greatest betrayals of our evolution. We've evolved brains capable of designing and mass producing vaccines against horrible diseases that have killed our children since time immemorial, yet because of current politics certain parents refuse them.
People who didn't experience the diseases thanks to vaccination they never had to deal with them. Then some dipshit in England abuses some kids and claims vaccines cause autism in a lie-filled paper, and now dipshits stoke that fear for political gain.
I'm pretty hyper critical of parents, even at the best of times (they are, in my opinion, some of the most hyper privileged people around, right after politicians and right before dog owners) but parents who won't vaccinate their kids I find to be actually evil and deserving of a smack
I would like to launch all the anti-vaxxers of the world straight onto bikini atol...
No no that's too kind. I would build them a nice little village along the shores of Lake Karchay
Lakefront living for all, free of charge.
They're anti-vaxxers. Just send them on an "all expenses paid" trip up the congo river or something and they'll end up with all kinds of tropical diseases
Yes but since then we’ve had growing stupidity in this country fed by conspiracies and ignorance. The anti-vaccination movement that has been around a long time is finally catching up to us.
1963 or 64, average, healthy 3rd grade me got Rubella & rubeola sequentially. Wound up w/pneumonia & delirious with a fever, my mother sponging me with cool water overnight. Remember getting multiple penicillin shots & missing weeks of school.
Remain shocked that people are choosing to risk this.
I was born in Oct 1962 and received the measles vaccine when I was old enough. Still contracted measles in 1969. I remember the sponge baths mom gave me.
Thank you for sharing the Dahl’s family tragedy, caused by a measles outbreak pre-vaccines.
Puts a human face on measles danger.
For anyone to willingly, by refusal to vaccinate, subject their children to this heartbreaking, horrible outcome is unconscionable.
RFK Jr’s children are ALL vaccinated.
Don't let JFK hear you. He is going to have all the vaccines destroyed. Get your kids and yourself vaccinated before it is too late. Grimm days are coming.
In 1966 my 2 year old sister contracted the measles and was hospitalized for three weeks. She survived. My mother contracted the measles shortly after, which resulted in encephalitis. My mother was institutionalized for 6 months with a brain injury. Measles is preventable ... please get vaccinated.
My grandmother lost 2 out of three babies from measles. My dad was the only survivor. I was her oldest grandchild when I got measles aged 2 years old in 1962 (so it's possible it was the same outbreak that Dahl is talking about). She must have been terrified.
That was sad.. glad you survived the measles at age 2, you were so young. That is a miracle. Can i ask you some more questions on it please? I followed you, we can kindly talk, thanks
Thanks for giving me your response..I'm a journal writer and in an (NGO), organisation. I know you're not a doctor that's why I'm interested to know your personal experiences from this dangerous disease. These are to help the young ones from not experiencing the same.
I don't need to contact you anywhere else because I can tell you here. I was 2 years old. I don't remember a thing about it but it did leave me with problems with my eyes for which I use spectacles.
No I'm not saying you should contact me anywhere else madam. I just said you can follow me back so that we can text privately. While sharing our experience we may be saying things not meant to be seen by public. I just want to aid my journal writing with it. Don't feel offended
Of course most of these people weren’t paying attention until 2016. They know very little history. This makes them easy marks. I’m sad for the innocent children.
That's what happened to a schoolmate of mine. Sadly, he ended up with the mental age of a 6 month old, and was put into long term hospital care. At least, we had the excuse that there was no vaccine - there's no excuse for any parent who would roll the dice on their child's health today.
My mother had an aunt with a similar story, but she had Scarlet Fever and ended up with a mental age of 6 years. She, too, was put into an institution where she was raped, became pregnant, and gave birth.
And the man we have in charge of our countries health and welfare is an anti-VAX anti-medicine idiot measles isn’t the only one gonna be coming back with the polio hits or chickenpox or smallpox or anything that has been eradicated how Covid could be back if they do away with that vaccine
There are natural factors created in nature that limit population and illness is one of them. Humans have only grown in numbers thanks to the smartest of humanity's help over come it. Now that stupidity is in charge nature returns to cull the herd which is a force that isn't easy to fight.
Thought the saddest part is it took a large amount of suffering and loss of life to make people listen and force them to think past their simple minded emotions.
They are holding school funding hostage—forcing schools to choose between protecting children’s lives or keeping their doors open. Preventable diseases will spread, kids will suffer, and lives will be lost—all for political theater. This is state-sanctioned negligence. It must not stand. 🌗✨
My dad had measles as a child (in the 50s), and it burned up the bones in his ears. Even after surgery, he was never able to hear from his left ear again, and he needed hearing aids for the right. He loved music, but he always felt he could've been better as a musician if he hadn't gone deaf.
My cousin at age 8 developed measles. My cousin developed encephalitis. My playmate, my friend was never the same. The what ifs when I look at what happened to her still haunt me. I vaccinated every one of my children.
In 1959 when I was 6 I caught measles, mumps and chicken pox all in the same summer. In those days no vaccines existed. I'm now 71. I can still remember that hell. No child should suffer from diseases that are easily prevented by vaccines.
In the summer of 1991 I got strep which became scarlettina One step below scarlet fever I would not wish it on my worst enemy. I can only imagine what any of the vaccine preventable illnesses are like as I'm fully vaccinated and so is my son.
Sitting by my then-21mo (& only) babe’s hosp bed as she lay unconscious w a systemic hosp-acq multi-abx resist bact infxn, I was sure I would die w her. One abx was found to work & we both lived
Parents who refuse to prevent suffering & death of their kids don’t deserve to be parents
What a heartbreaking account. A parent's primary responsibility is to protect the children. There is no excuse for risking their health when safe vaccinations are available.
Along with any other potentially fatal communicable disease, for which we have had vaccination programs, MMR vaccines should be strictly enforced to the children/students on a national scale.
We're dealing with people who refuse to believe facts. Show them thousands of documents proving vaccines work, and they'll point to a post or a tweet and dismiss you.
Devastating. I guess, in the minds, not only the misinformed parents but also the should-know-better "leaders" who are promoting anti-vax and anti-science policies, dead is better than woke.
We have to weight this man's letter against the depth of wisdom possessed by the former heroin addict and brain worm survivor who's been put in charge of American healthcare by a sociopath who's filed for bankruptcy six times and tried to overthrow our duly-elected government.
My brother had mumps at the age of 7. He was sick for 3 months and also had strep throat and tonsillitis. At one point, the doctor thought he might have had encephalitis or meningitis. Fortunately, he did not. Despite being exposed, I didn’t get sick.
RFK has already killed children. I anticipate he’ll have more blood on hands before this is over. The Cheeto’s first admin killed people with Covid misinformation. The two of them together?
When is the wall going to be built around Texas, Kansas, and Ohio so all un-vaxxed sick people can be interned there regardless of their disease (e.g. measles, tuberculosis, bird flu, and covid).
Is internment RFK Jr's "concept of a plan" for public health?
I was 4 and got measles encepahlitis.
It took ages to recover in total isolation.
I still remember my dad looking throught the small window in the door when I was recovering. Had terrible headaches all my life.
My Mom started working in a hospital in the early 1960s as a physiotherapist and one of her first patients was a young child with post-measles encephalitis. I wish anyone anti-measles vaccine could talk to her or another elder who worked in health care at that time.
Yes, my memory of measles is being a little younger than her coming home from school to find my mother in bed so sick I thought she was going to die. Kids were sick all over too. Not great memories of measles in the 50s/60s.
The fact is, we didn’t eradicate certain diseases like polio, measles, and smallpox by everyone getting sick. It was through science and an effective inoculation program.
The main problem is the lack of trust to the government institutes. I am 51, after 2005's globally (because of the cannibal capitalism rises everywhere) the trust was gone and many took the path of conservation and asking. I really don't like it but I cannot blame them.
My grandfather had five children just after his fifth child my mom came home with mumps he got mumps he never had any more children. He might have had more children if he hadn't had mumps as an adult male.
My great-grandmother lost her son to meningitis at age 4 in a time before we had a vaccine for it his headstone in the cutknife Saskatchewan cemetery is a reminder of what happens when you can't vaccinate and he is the reason my son is fully up to date on all of his vaccines, among other reasons.
Although I had the measles at 6 ( late 1950s) with no negative aftereffects, I'm livid at the fact that we may have it back in record numbers, thanks to RFK. While we are made to stand back and watch helplessly. We need to fight back.
It’s not just RJK- there is a powerful all right Christian contingency behind this, it’s been brewing, RFK is merely one of their puppets, have been studying this for two decades …..
Oh really!!! From what I've read about RFK, he has stated bizarre things abt vaccines causing autism. That's why I wrote what I wrote!!! Yes, I'm sure there is a set of very misinformed people who are all for this. To me, it's scary.
Even if the vaccines did cause autism which they don't I would much rather have a disabled child than a dead child. (In fact I do have an autistic child who also happens to have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome thanks to me and my genetics and I'd much rather he be here than be dead)
He has every vaccine he's been eligible for and is fully up to date and happy and if he were dead let me tell you I would be far less happy than I am now. I am so vehemently pro vaccine that if I ever found out one of my friends was an anti-vaxxer they wouldn't be my friend anymore.
Honestly I believe vaccines don’t cause autism. It’s what the anti-vaxxers believe. I’ve seen them talk about making kids drink cleaning products or take horse dewormer. Me I’d rather be vaccinated and autistic, than dead and “perfect”.
Oh totally It's what they believe. My wife met a woman when our son was near his first vaccines that she thought might be a new friend, they went for a walk together. The lady asked my wife if we were going to vaccinate and when my wife said yes the lasy said I'm sorry I can't be friends with you.
In 1960, I had Measles that turned into spinal meningitis. 3 weeks in hospital, comatose & paralyzed on my left side for a few days, left permanent damage to my eyesight, hearing, equilibrium, as well as a mild case of epilepsy (which I outgrew). Anyone thinking this is a simple disease is crazy.
Too many people who had the vaccine as kids and then caught a mild form of measles assume that that is the full extent and dismiss ot in the same way they dismissed covid as a cold
I received the MMR in mid August, 1984, and promptly came down with measles. It damn near killed me, and I missed the first two months of 2nd grade. That year, I also came down with rubella, mumps, and whooping cough, despite having had all of my shots on schedule.
I wish vaccines were infallible.
My little kindergarten-aged cousin got mumps encephalitis. We almost lost her. She was hospitalized, had a lumbar puncture, was delirious, and to this day (60 years later) we all believe it left her damaged. :-( Mumps (and measles and chickenpox, etc.) are no longer inevitable. Vaccinate!
1962 would have been plus or minus two years from when I had measles. They certainly weren’t comfortable. I had all those diseases at one time or another. Chicken pox, mumps, the whole bit. Knowing what I know now, I’m surprised I came out as well as I did.
Yesterday my eldest grandchild (8yo) recieved her second measles vaccine. I (1957) have had measles (have been very sick), I’m happy my (grand)children have the chance to be /are vaccinated
I'm a measles survivor too. I still have memories of being kept in a darkened room and not being allowed to watch TV (black & white then) unless I put on sunglasses.
Generation Jones here. I suffered through just about all the childhood diseases—before there were vaccines. Fortunately polio vaccine was around. So many had permanent damage from now preventable diseases. I guess Americans got too comfortable & forgot the suffering. So, now we will all suffer.AGAIN
What is so unbearably tragic about this is the fools who willing sacrifice their own children to woo woo science and garbage homeopathy cures.I suppose the U S can look forward to tiny headstones scattered across their nation once again .
Let me introduce you to my son. You'll have to speak up because he is deaf in one ear and partial deaf in the other. (Based on someone I knew. Until I met him, I did not know measles could cause deafness.)
Another disease that can be prevented. My sister had H.flu meningitis at age 5. Either the disease or the streptomycin they used to treat is damaged her hearing and vision.
Ignoring outbreaks of bird flu, measles, TB, *and* smothering communications from CDC and NIH, *and* firing healthcare workers, *and* making RFK Jr. Secretary of HHS!
It's as if this administration is TRYING to make us sick!
Remember Trump's MONUMENTAL mishandling of COVID?!
Many of these white supremacists see a genetic and cultural connection to southern Russia and Ukraine. This has, IMO, led to the Trump/Musk support for Putin. A few yrs ago a bunch of MAGA GOP from Congress went to Russia. This is very much, IMO, a worldwide white supremacist movement.
It is true that about 5000 BCE there was a Y Chromosome bottleneck in Europe. Haplogroups from the Yamnaya and related groups replaced others in Europe in as little as a few hundred to 1000 yrs. White supremacists build their pseudo-science off from these facts.
I agree with this. I believe with driverless cars and AI, the elites, who despise us, need a few billion fewer workers than they used to. No need to educate children/workers because they need fewer laborers. It's ok with them to kill the rest.
They don't want more children. They want women pregnant and out of the colleges and the workplace so mediocre white men once again have the control back. The children are expendable after that.
Horribly sad. A reminder, if u r pregnant & not vaccinated against measles, yr fetus is at risk for developing birth defects. My mother-in-law got measles in the 1st trimester of pregnancy. Her baby girl was born deaf & later in life was informed by doctors that she was infertile. Why take a chance?
The Texas Republican Party, however, weakens vaccine mandates and promotes vaccine skepticism. Texas Republicans have filed over 20 bills endorsed by anti-vaccine groups. Some of these bills sound OK on the tin, but amount to pseudoscientific barriers to the promotion and distribution of medicine.
What’s likely to happen: people’s skepticism about vaccines will recede in face of an outbreak and the deaths of children. People will swing back to wanting timely vaccines, but RFKJr will withhold them from the market. It’s his life’s goal. This is his moment. Children’s lives be damned.
I keep thinking this. If those dead kids weren't enough to keep him from being appointed no dead kids will matter to any of MAGA world. It's disgusting
He may not withhold them. He can gut the ACA and change the vaccine schedule so insurance companies don't have to pay. If you want it, you can pay $; hundreds of dollars per shot. Then he can claim it was our choice to not vaccinate.
Wouldn’t it be in the insurance company’s best interest to pay for the vaccine to avoid paying for a month of hospitalization and resulting follow up care? Wait wait I forgot. Shits not supposed to make sense anymore
Covid does too, to a lesser degree. But every covid infection means you are more at risk from any pathogen, including fungus and yeast opportunistic infections. It messes up immune response a lot. It's a big part of why everyone is always sick now. All the more reason to mask up
Yep. It also REALLY fucks you up if you have autoimmune disorders or issues such as EDS or POTS, since it appears to be making them worse (seriously, wtf covid?), and we're seeing more cases of POTS symptoms in people who didn't have POTS previously who have caught covid.
This is perhaps the scariest aspect. Even those who escape serious sequelae of measles itself can succumb to any of myriad other serious infectious diseases.
I remember reading this many years ago when my eldest was a baby and feeling so profoundly glad there was a vaccine for her against this terrible disease. I remember two doctor friends quietly but fearfully keeping their baby away from an unvaxxed kid for a year bc they knew what measles can do.
Maybe if we go back to strictly calling them "immunizations", RFK and MAGA won't notice that word is interchangeable with "vaccines" and we can carry on like before.
But they are probably immunized themselves thanks to school requirements. They are instead withholding vaccines from their children, who have no say in the matter.
Every time I read this letter I cry. Why would anyone, given the choice, forgo the temporary pain of a vaccination over the lifetime pain of a preventable death or harm.
What a letter and response!
My specialty treats the sickest of sick kids. In my training I transported a toddler who had measles pneumonia to our ICU. We gave aggressive care: intubation, high frequency ventilation, antibiotics and antivirals. He went from awake to dead in 12 hrs. Kennedy is wrong.
I give Kennedy credit for pointing out the dangers of food additives. But he’s dangerously wrong about everything else. No way Trump and Congressional Republicans are unaware, yet pretend otherwise!
One of my husband's friends caught chicken pox in his 20s. At the end of the illness he had a heart attack and died. That's why I think children should be vaccinated on the NHS as part of their standard childhood vaccines.
I caught Chickenpox when I aged about 7 in the 1970’s before vaccines were available I was very ill. I have a pre existing neurological disability & the Pfizer Covid vaccine in December ‘21 triggered Shingles it reactivated the Chickenpox dormant after all those years but still in my body 1/
Shingles in 2022 has left me with Tinnitus. Not only can Chickenpox kill children but the virus doesn’t not clear the body and can reactivate years later causing damage. 2/
I got chicken pox when I was in my 30s. Another awful disease; I don't think my parents vaccinated me, as I had measles also when I was 7. Measles was the worst; however, I still have vivid memories of that episode.
I keep wondering what those parents in Texas are going to say when their kids go deaf, or their child’s teacher loses her baby, or they have to support a brain-damaged child for life with no assistance. And all of those were preventable with one simple shot PROVEN shot.
Oh my God that is one of the saddest things I’ve ever read. And a vaccine helped so many families never had to suffer losses of children. I’m so grateful for the measles vaccine when my children were young. The world will be horrified at what happens in our country.
Unfortunately - it is really dire that parents get their kids vaccinated-if possible-go to another country that believes in science: Canada, Mexico, etc.
Yes, it is so sad that poor children will suffer the most.
Yes, they’re forcing people to have children who don’t want to, but they will not help the people with raising children. There are so many people who will not be able to afford to travel. Maybe there will be doctors without borders that help people secretly. isn’t that sad that it must be that way
View medical information on YouTube from the American Medical Association. Search for them on YouTube. CDC is being silenced by Trump. Pass this on please.
So horribly sad and needless. “Bobby” no name for a grownup, will murder our youth and encamp our grownups in health concentration camps. Let them all fail and fall to the woke mind virus that is REALITY!
I was born in 1955, also before the vaccine was available. Measles is a terrible, terrible disease with tragic consequences as noted in the letter. I pity the children of these morons who have access to a safe and effective vaccine yet refuse to use it to spare their children.
But it’s not always that simple. Because Parent A’s decision not to vaccinate could directly result in the death of Parent B’s infant who is too young to get their vaccine yet. Their selfish actions hurt more than just their own family.
I got the measles before there was a vaccine. I almost died from it as well. Vaccinations are a good thing. I worry about all the children that are suffering or about to suffer because of the stupidity politics in the USA.
they had the option to get vaccinated and they didn’t. Now, unfortunately, they are experiencing the results of stupidity. Science is real, whether you wanna believe it or not. this is really a sad situation in Texas.
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https://fs.blog/roald-dahl-letter-daughter/
https://asm.org/Articles/201...
It wiped her out at the age of four, literally. Her entire memory. She had to learn how to do EVERYTHING again. Speech. Walking. It severely affected her for many many years.
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https://asm.org/Articles/2019/May/Measles-and-Immune-Amnesia
I have a son with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus who is my angel.
I love him dearly, but I wouldn't wish the hardships he's been through in his young life on anyone.
Thank you for this comment.
But to be sick from something that is SO preventable via a safe vaccine is just so sad.
That people are this ignorant, gullible, suggestible, this vulnerable to disinformation and misinformation...
Makes my blood boil
But with no CDC...who really knows....
I know we just put an anti-vaxer in charge of HHS
Yes that is insanity
But you can still get your children vaccinated for all childhood diseases and viruses
Fucking auto correct is a real buzz kill. What if this AI shit starts happening when people speak...?
Child mortality rate increased from 18 per 1000 in 1960 to 9 in 1980. In 2010, an average of 3.78 children died for every 1000 born in the Netherlands.
I'd guess they'd like to return to a past where childhood illnesses killed 50% of children before age 5 -- because it also meant that women bore (or had to bear) more children.
I have no words...
Needless suffering and death in modern times, just insane.
People who didn't experience the diseases thanks to vaccination they never had to deal with them. Then some dipshit in England abuses some kids and claims vaccines cause autism in a lie-filled paper, and now dipshits stoke that fear for political gain.
No no that's too kind. I would build them a nice little village along the shores of Lake Karchay
Lakefront living for all, free of charge.
"Hey! Hey! RFK!
How many kids did you kill today?"
Remain shocked that people are choosing to risk this.
Puts a human face on measles danger.
For anyone to willingly, by refusal to vaccinate, subject their children to this heartbreaking, horrible outcome is unconscionable.
RFK Jr’s children are ALL vaccinated.
Sitting by my then-21mo (& only) babe’s hosp bed as she lay unconscious w a systemic hosp-acq multi-abx resist bact infxn, I was sure I would die w her. One abx was found to work & we both lived
Parents who refuse to prevent suffering & death of their kids don’t deserve to be parents
Respect authority!
https://time.com/6112455/benjamin-franklin-children-vaccines-history/
This vaccine contained a live virus, too.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/trump-bars-federal-funding-schools-covid-vaccine-mandates-118841821
Is internment RFK Jr's "concept of a plan" for public health?
https://www.newsweek.com/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-disease-explainer-2023735
It took ages to recover in total isolation.
I still remember my dad looking throught the small window in the door when I was recovering. Had terrible headaches all my life.
The situation is brutal: science gave us amnesty from measles, and some chose exile instead.
#PreventableLoss
I wish vaccines were infallible.
It appears it was meningitis, which has a vaccine that became available in 1987.
It's as if this administration is TRYING to make us sick!
Remember Trump's MONUMENTAL mishandling of COVID?!
An adult who wasn't vaccinated infected him and that was it.
I think it was a few years after Roald's daughter.
Covid
rsv
Norovirus
Flu
It wipes the slate clean
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Every person who chooses to shun vaccines deserves whatever happens to them.
We don't need them among us; they may be infectious.
My specialty treats the sickest of sick kids. In my training I transported a toddler who had measles pneumonia to our ICU. We gave aggressive care: intubation, high frequency ventilation, antibiotics and antivirals. He went from awake to dead in 12 hrs. Kennedy is wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles:_A_Dangerous_Illness
Heartbreaking now
Heartbreaking that this is totally preventable and is going to happen
Stupid is as stupid does
Yes, it is so sad that poor children will suffer the most.