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Uh-huh, and this is why we vaccinate

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Auckland parents Ian and Linda Williams thought they had made an informed choice not to vaccinate their children, but after their son ended up in intensive care with a tetanus infection they realised they had made a terrible mistake.

"The mistake that we made was that we underestimated the diseases and we totally over-estimated the adverse reactions", says father Ian Williams, who is speaking publicly of his family's ordeal in an effort to warn other parents about the dangers of not immunising their children.

Minor cut, major infection

It started when seven-year-old Alijah got a small cut on the bottom of his foot in December 2012.

"Of course we didn't think it was too serious, it was just a little cut but a couple of days later he started getting symptoms like a stroke on the side of his face," Mr Williams says.



Read further: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/06/06/3776327.htm

Comments

Jun. 10th, 2013 01:57 pm (UTC)
Good of them to speak up. They may save lives by doing it. Poor little boy. At least he did not die from the parents ignorance.
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Jun. 10th, 2013 01:58 pm (UTC)
Indeed...
Jun. 10th, 2013 03:23 pm (UTC)
Wholehearted agreement. I still feel guilty, despite being a teenager then, for not being able to convince my math teacher to vaccinate his children when he told me he wasn't going to "have [them] injected with monkey pus". I hope those kids never caught anything horrible.
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Jun. 11th, 2013 12:27 am (UTC)
Quite so...people have forgotten just how horrible some of those illnesses are...and it's no longer "monkey pus", for that matter, the vaccines are recombinant ones these days.

And don't feel guilty--some people one cannot sway, no matter what. There have been those who opposed vaccination to smallpox...
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Jun. 10th, 2013 11:54 pm (UTC)
Important article...folk forget what these diseases are actually like. We all want to do what's best for our kids. And don't let me get started on MMR...
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Jun. 11th, 2013 12:27 am (UTC)
Indeed...