Yeah, good point. A couple years ago a very good friend of mine, who did either delayed or no vaccinations (I'm not sure now which it was), told me that her doctor suspected her child had rubella. They weren't sure, they were waiting on tests, but the county officials had apparently been notified, and it was looking very suspicious. And then I realized that this little kidd-o had been playing with my other friend, who was 4 months pregnant at the time (rubella can cause extremely serious birth defects in a fetus if a mother is exposed to it).
I about died. I was like a chicken with its head cut off, calling my friend and calling my pediatrician, terrified that somehow my friend's baby could be harmed. A week later we found out it was nothing (or at least nothing compared to rubella), but I was amazed how blase some people were about it. These diseases are serious things. Sometimes I think the lack of exposure to them these past 50 years has made people forget how dangerous they once were.
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Date: 2006-04-14 07:50 pm (UTC)I about died. I was like a chicken with its head cut off, calling my friend and calling my pediatrician, terrified that somehow my friend's baby could be harmed. A week later we found out it was nothing (or at least nothing compared to rubella), but I was amazed how blase some people were about it. These diseases are serious things. Sometimes I think the lack of exposure to them these past 50 years has made people forget how dangerous they once were.