Do you know how many people (any age) in the US died from measles in the last 6 years? ZERO according to the CDC.So why are we force vaccinating our kids for a threat that does NOT exist? If the vaccines are safe, why do the makers still need liability protection? image 3:56 AM · May 22, 2024 · 38.6K Views725 Reposts 22 Quotes 1,933 Likes 114 Bookmarks
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According to the CDC:
Severe complications in children and adults:
Hospitalization . About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people in the U.S. who get measles is hospitalized.Pneumonia . As many as 1 out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles in young children.Encephalitis . About 1 child out of every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain). This can lead to convulsions and leave the child deaf or with intellectual disability.Death . Nearly 1 to 3 of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurologic complications.Complications during pregnancy . If you are pregnant and have not had the MMR vaccine, measles may cause birth prematurely, or have a low-birth-weight baby.Long-term complications
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https://www.cdc.gov/measles/signs-symptoms/?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/measles/symptoms/complications.html
My mother had measles as a child and described being confined to her bedroom in the dark, unable to read or have a light on because of the risk of blindness. Worse, her younger brother was just a toddler, and my grandmother had to keep the bedroom door locked for fear he would visit his sister and catch measles himself. She also had to literally boil my mother's sheets and pyjamas to keep the disease from spreading.
Just because nobody has died of measles in the last 6 years doesn't mean people won't die of it in the future (and 6 years is an extremely short time frame). Measles may be considered eliminated in the U.S., but the realities of airplane travel means the disease can strike from other countries.
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