Even though I know I might get flamed by anti-vaxxers, measles could really hit our small town hard, so I've shared this to our local Facebook group. I know our medical centre has been trying to get the word out. Thanks for this information.
I sent out info about the whooping cough vaccine/booster to my workmates as we work in child health research and one realised she could get the MMR vaccinations too (US raised, unsure if she was vaccinated as a child) so she booked in straight away. I am so proud of my team!
Measles is a serious illness, as you say. Helen Keller became deaf and blind as a result of measles. Mumps can be very serious for men, causing sterility and a lot of testicular pain. Rubella in pregnancy can be devastating for the foetus. Immunise. Take care if your whanau and others too.
Thanks for this! I’m a charge nurse manager of a paediatric ward and we are busting a gut trying to get as many tamariki up to date with imms as possible. A measles outbreak isn’t an if but a when situation. And pertussis! In Tamaki Makaurau there is an immunisation outreach service for whānau who are unable to get to a GP or elsewhere to get their tamariki immunised! Bexsero to cover against meningococcal B is also now free and part of the funded schedule. All the imms for all the protection and best possible chance of reducing morbidy and mortality associated with these awful diseases.
I have so many friends who do not believe in vaccinations at all - they say their kids will have natural immunity. Even when I tell them that they really do not want their kids to have polio, (I had it as a child and would not wish it on my worst enemy) they tell me it is all a fabrication. The measles cases and needless deaths in Samoa really upset me, but when I said that to the most anti-vax young woman I know, she said "They were lacking in Vitamin D"!! So cold! I have never forgiven her.
I had the vaccine as a kid, but lost the immunity (somehow), only found out when I was pregnant with my first child. Was pretty scary, suddenly realising how serious it could be, when I have never had to worry until then as I figured I was fine
I carry my family name from my Tante -Aunty - my mother's tiny baby sister, unknown to me because she died of measles in war-torn Southern Netherlands in 1944, at the age of just 16 months old.
She had a severe fever and rash one day and there was no possibility of getting her any urgent medical attention.
By the next morning she was tragically gone.
It absolutely broke my grandparents and they bore the heart break until the the days they died.
They carried her baby picture with them across the world when they finally emigrated here with their family of four children, (two sons born a few years after Betty passed).
My mother later gave me her sister's name as I am the first grandchild in the family.
Even though I know I might get flamed by anti-vaxxers, measles could really hit our small town hard, so I've shared this to our local Facebook group. I know our medical centre has been trying to get the word out. Thanks for this information.
I sent out info about the whooping cough vaccine/booster to my workmates as we work in child health research and one realised she could get the MMR vaccinations too (US raised, unsure if she was vaccinated as a child) so she booked in straight away. I am so proud of my team!
Love this. It's so important. Thanks for writing about it Emily.
Measles is a serious illness, as you say. Helen Keller became deaf and blind as a result of measles. Mumps can be very serious for men, causing sterility and a lot of testicular pain. Rubella in pregnancy can be devastating for the foetus. Immunise. Take care if your whanau and others too.
Thanks for this! I’m a charge nurse manager of a paediatric ward and we are busting a gut trying to get as many tamariki up to date with imms as possible. A measles outbreak isn’t an if but a when situation. And pertussis! In Tamaki Makaurau there is an immunisation outreach service for whānau who are unable to get to a GP or elsewhere to get their tamariki immunised! Bexsero to cover against meningococcal B is also now free and part of the funded schedule. All the imms for all the protection and best possible chance of reducing morbidy and mortality associated with these awful diseases.
I have so many friends who do not believe in vaccinations at all - they say their kids will have natural immunity. Even when I tell them that they really do not want their kids to have polio, (I had it as a child and would not wish it on my worst enemy) they tell me it is all a fabrication. The measles cases and needless deaths in Samoa really upset me, but when I said that to the most anti-vax young woman I know, she said "They were lacking in Vitamin D"!! So cold! I have never forgiven her.
I had the vaccine as a kid, but lost the immunity (somehow), only found out when I was pregnant with my first child. Was pretty scary, suddenly realising how serious it could be, when I have never had to worry until then as I figured I was fine
I carry my family name from my Tante -Aunty - my mother's tiny baby sister, unknown to me because she died of measles in war-torn Southern Netherlands in 1944, at the age of just 16 months old.
She had a severe fever and rash one day and there was no possibility of getting her any urgent medical attention.
By the next morning she was tragically gone.
It absolutely broke my grandparents and they bore the heart break until the the days they died.
They carried her baby picture with them across the world when they finally emigrated here with their family of four children, (two sons born a few years after Betty passed).
My mother later gave me her sister's name as I am the first grandchild in the family.
It is essential to get vaccinated. Please.