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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who think vaccination should be left up to individual choice, this is where you put babies and children at risk who are too young to be fully vaccinated.

A mother gave birth at a TX hospital but it was not realized until she was in active labor that she had measles. With a disease that is as contagious as measles - airborne, lingers in the air for hours after the infected person has departed, everyone in that shared unit airspace (which depends on how the HVAC is designed) or even admitted to the same waiting room, triage room, delivery room, within a couple hours, or in a room that shares airspace even if divided by walls, is at risk. On an L&D unit, that means newborns who are too young to get the vaccine.

Multiple newborn babies are getting IV immunoglobulin to protect them because of their exposure.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna196519?fbclid=PAY2xjawJCpzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABpgpExcgW_jlWh-ddb6OtpfX3fvep51szSS7qpRJj_SgUHvOMD38_xN3-3Q_aem_6Lx0Am_jhqP0O84vSiU0Vg
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This is one of a myriad of scenarios that vaccination has protected us against until now. You can imagine the others - child with measles visits a relative in the liver transplant unit, and now a host of immunosuppressed patients are at risk. Husband contracts measles from his job at a community center and infects his pregnant wife who then infects other pregnant women at the obgyn’s office. And God forbid, an infected child visits the oncology ward at a children’s hospital, infecting children with no functional immune system.

As an ID doc, I admit I was thrilled to see a case of pertussis during my training in the 80’s.  Whooping cough seemed like a relic of the past and we gathered all the med students and residents we could, so that they could see this anachronistic disease. I’m no longer thrilled when I hear about polio and pertussis cases. They seem like the harbinger of a dark age for diseases that should have been extinguished by now. [/quote]

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