Anonymous wrote:Retired infectious disease doctor here, who has never personally seen a case of measles. The news of the measles outbreak and death of a child is a failure for public health. In 1983, measles was nearly eradicated, but due to funding cuts to immunization programs, it survived.

In 1991, the courts ordered the vaccination of children when their fundamentalist Christian parents refused during an outbreak in Philadelphia. In 2019, an outbreak in Brooklyn among a Hasidic Jewish community resulted in court orders. I doubt the same will happen this time.

If you are reading this thread, you have likely vaccinated your kids, but on the radar of yet another thing to worry about is polio. RFK Jr has spouted some nonsense about polio vaccines in the past. A person in NY got vaccine derived polio, which happens when an unvaccinated person picks up a harmless strain from the poop of a vaccinated person, and that harmless strain of polio bounces around from unvaccinated person to unvaccinated person until it mutates and can infect unvaccinated people. Even better, the original wild type polio is still infecting people in Afghanistan. I need a glass of wine. I think this administration will help unwind so many years of progress in immunizations in the U.S.

Anonymous wrote:Retired infectious disease doctor here, who has never personally seen a case of measles. The news of the measles outbreak and death of a child is a failure for public health. In 1983, measles was nearly eradicated, but due to funding cuts to immunization programs, it survived.

In 1991, the courts ordered the vaccination of children when their fundamentalist Christian parents refused during an outbreak in Philadelphia. In 2019, an outbreak in Brooklyn among a Hasidic Jewish community resulted in court orders. I doubt the same will happen this time.

If you are reading this thread, you have likely vaccinated your kids, but on the radar of yet another thing to worry about is polio. RFK Jr has spouted some nonsense about polio vaccines in the past. A person in NY got vaccine derived polio, which happens when an unvaccinated person picks up a harmless strain from the poop of a vaccinated person, and that harmless strain of polio bounces around from unvaccinated person to unvaccinated person until it mutates and can infect unvaccinated people. Even better, the original wild type polio is still infecting people in Afghanistan. I need a glass of wine. I think this administration will help unwind so many years of progress in immunizations in the U.S.

Anonymous wrote:Retired infectious disease doctor here, who has never personally seen a case of measles. The news of the measles outbreak and death of a child is a failure for public health. In 1983, measles was nearly eradicated, but due to funding cuts to immunization programs, it survived.

In 1991, the courts ordered the vaccination of children when their fundamentalist Christian parents refused during an outbreak in Philadelphia. In 2019, an outbreak in Brooklyn among a Hasidic Jewish community resulted in court orders. I doubt the same will happen this time.

If you are reading this thread, you have likely vaccinated your kids, but on the radar of yet another thing to worry about is polio. RFK Jr has spouted some nonsense about polio vaccines in the past. A person in NY got vaccine derived polio, which happens when an unvaccinated person picks up a harmless strain from the poop of a vaccinated person, and that harmless strain of polio bounces around from unvaccinated person to unvaccinated person until it mutates and can infect unvaccinated people. Even better, the original wild type polio is still infecting people in Afghanistan. I need a glass of wine. I think this administration will help unwind so many years of progress in immunizations in the U.S.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should be prosecuted.

OMG.

My kids are all vaccinated, but good god, get a grip on yourself.

Parents are entitled to make choices about their children's health.

Very sad that a child died from measles.

When I was a child (and I'm very old), everyone got the measles. I remember throwing up a lot, but it was over in a few days, just like any other virus. My kids got viruses like that, and they survived them.

I wonder if measles is different now, more dangerous?
Literally everyone got it back in my day, and no one ever died from it.

And I'm immune for life.

Anonymous wrote:Globally there were 100K deaths from measles. If people stop vaccinating that number would jump over 2 million deaths globally from measles. Is this really what the antivaxxers are seeking? Dying of measles is sad and in most cases avoidable these days.

Anonymous wrote:20% of infected children will end up being hospitalized for, blindness, pneumonia (the most dangerous kind, deafness, encephalitis.

So they live that’s great but they are blind, brain damaged, deaf and with permanent lung damage.

Just why? Why does one choose to do this? Because someone in the internet told you that vaccines cause autism?

Just so stupid.

Anonymous wrote:Are we great yet?

Anonymous wrote:20% of infected children will end up being hospitalized for, blindness, pneumonia (the most dangerous kind, deafness, encephalitis.

So they live that’s great but they are blind, brain damaged, deaf and with permanent lung damage.

Just why? Why does one choose to do this? Because someone in the internet told you that vaccines cause autism?

Just so stupid.

Anonymous wrote:So killing living breathing child ok.
Getting medical care so you don't die as a woman..or making a medical decision for yourself.illegal.


What if as a 17 year old my mother demands they give me an abortion. Is that okay?. Parents rights?

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Anonymous wrote:While it is tragic that a young life was lost but you can't reason with these parents, they think they know everything and Trump and Kennedy are the second coming of Christ. Just look out for your family, these people don't want any help.

I agree with you but do we know yet why this particular child wasn't vaccinated? The child could have been a new immigrant without access to free vaccines (or the mom was unaware of how to access them). Or the child could have been unable to get vaccines due to being immunocompromised. If either of those conditions apply, I can't place blame on the parents. But I can place blame on parents who don't vaccinate by choice thereby leaving other children vulnerable due to low herd immunity.

My guess not unvaxed immigrant. People from impoverished circumstances are poor but they aren’t stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:While it is tragic that a young life was lost but you can't reason with these parents, they think they know everything and Trump and Kennedy are the second coming of Christ. Just look out for your family, these people don't want any help.

I agree with you but do we know yet why this particular child wasn't vaccinated? The child could have been a new immigrant without access to free vaccines (or the mom was unaware of how to access them). Or the child could have been unable to get vaccines due to being immunocompromised. If either of those conditions apply, I can't place blame on the parents. But I can place blame on parents who don't vaccinate by choice thereby leaving other children vulnerable due to low herd immunity.