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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just stop with all the fearmongering. There is no information about the health of the child who died. I've posted before that I had measles as a child as did my parents and their parents and all my friends and relatives and not anyone we knew or anyone they knew died. This child must have been very sick. It's quite sad that he wasn't vaccinated, but he might have died  from something else if he were very sick. Measles is not polio. It's not going to spark a pandemic. All will be well. Calm down. [/quote]

My sister almost died from chicken pox in the late 70's -- she was under 2 and got double pneumonia and was hospitalized for a week. We vaccinate against these childhood diseases because--like COVID--for most people, most of the time, you're fine but if you get really sick you get REALLY SICK and can end up permanently disabled or dead. It's stupid to reject a safe vaccine in favor of taking a chance that you will survive a contagious, dangerous, preventable disease.

We do pick and choose some vaccines--you don't get rabies vaccinations, for example, unless you get bitten by a wild or undocumented animal and then you go through the rabies series. Most of us don't get vaccinated for cholera or hep A unless we're traveling to parts of the world where those diseases are prevalent or we work in a setting where we could get them. But there's no reason not to get vaccinated for something that is highly contagious without close human contact and has serious or fatal consequences.  [/quote]

Yeah, I had measles as a child, and I was not fine. I was hospitalized - I spent my first birthday in the hospital. I was exposed before I was old enough for the vaccine. I lost 50% of my hearing in one ear and still suffer from severe headaches and ear pain. I also had to go through lots of therapy as a kid after they realized my STM wasn't great and almost certainly a result of having measles. Just because someone doesn't die from it, it doesn't mean they'll be fine afterwards. The doctors didn't even know about my short term memory issues until I was 6 or 7 years old, possibly 8.   [/quote]

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