Experience of those who have had full blown vaccine preventable diseases.
Experience of those who have had full blown vaccine preventable diseases.
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As a resident of Canada I have friends that have immigrated from other countries. When I talk to those who are in their 20's from certain parts of the world about vaccinations some will say, "well I had measle, and mumps, and thankfully... I'm alive." I may ask " Would you like your kids to suffer with the disease like you did?" I appreciate that I have friends who can say they had the full blown disease; they can speak to the harm/risk it had on their life. In Canada we don't often get to see these vaccine preventable diseases and so many people don't understand the risk. My friends who have experienced these diseases can be a great resource to the rest of us.
That's a really good point. We've become blind to the debilitating effects of these diseases because we just don't see them that often in Canada. When I told my about the pertussis activity up north he said "Isn't whooping cough and olde-timey disease? Like something from the 1900s?" and I had to tell him that it isn't, because immunization rates aren't as high as they should be so that disease is making a comeback!
I was surprised to find out a number of years ago that my father had a sister, born a number of years before him, that he never knew as she had died of influenza during the "Spanish Flu" epidemic of 1918-1919. Sometimes our families have been impacted in ways we've never even realized.
That's so tragic! Many people these days don't understand the gravity of some of these diseases and I think that many attribute the deaths to lack of modern medicine. They forget that vaccines are a part or modern medicine!
Lucky to be alive is right! It's unfortunate that society's memory is short. We do not need these diseases to make comebacks in order for people to realize how important vaccinations are.
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I was surprised to find out a
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