Re: “Vaccination rate for measles declines in Washington” (March 17, A1):
I used to be born about 20 years earlier than the vaccine for measles was developed. Once I was 4 years outdated my older brother entered the general public faculty system and proceeded to convey house all the traditional childhood ailments that freely circulated. For the following six months I had again to again measles, mumps and whooping cough. I emerged with everlasting listening to loss and a decreased immune system that has lasted a lifetime.
I merely don’t perceive dad and mom who’re keen to danger the life and well being of their kids and ignore years of medical analysis and outcomes on the protection and effectiveness of vaccines as a result of somebody on a social media mother’s group knew somebody who knew somebody whose baby had an opposed response to a vaccination. Sadly, it’s not simply their kids who will endure however the unborn kids who will endure delivery defects when pregnant ladies get the measles.
Barbara Heavey, Covington
