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Showing Original Post only (View all)Spain has first diptheria case in 30 years. VACCINATE YOUR ****ING CHILDREN [View all]
What the hell is the matter with people?!!? VACCINATE YOUR G-D D----D CHILDREN!!!http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spain-s-first-case-diphtheria-28-years-due-lack-vaccination
A six-year-old boy who had not been vaccinated is Spains first case of diphtheria in 28 years. The young boy, from the Catalan city of Olot, is reportedly very ill and is being treated with antitoxin. The parents, who had chosen not to vaccinate their child, are devastated and have now had their younger daughter immunized as a result.
Diphtheria is a bacterial infection that spreads through coughing or sneezing, according to the World Health Organization. Once infected, sufferers can experience a sore throat, fever and swollen glands in the neck. Diphtheria can lead to serious complications even with treatment, with 10% of cases resulting in death. Spains Health Ministry had to scramble to find the drug to treat the child as there had not been a case of diphtheria in Spain for almost 28 years due to the countrys high vaccination coverage (over 95%). The antitoxin was eventually delivered from Moscow to Barcelona by the Russian ambassador.
The family is devastated and admit that they feel tricked, because they were not properly informed, Catalan public health chief Antoni Mateu told El País. They have a deep sense of guilt, which we are trying to rid them of.
The child remains in critical condition in Vall dHebron hospitals intensive care unit, but is responding to treatment. Health officials have launched an investigation to find the original carrier, which they admit could be difficult if the carrier isnt showing any symptoms. All those in contact with the child are under surveillance, and his classmates have been checked to see if theyve been vaccinated. As a cautionary procedure, they have also given the children preventive medicine.
Diphtheria is a bacterial infection that spreads through coughing or sneezing, according to the World Health Organization. Once infected, sufferers can experience a sore throat, fever and swollen glands in the neck. Diphtheria can lead to serious complications even with treatment, with 10% of cases resulting in death. Spains Health Ministry had to scramble to find the drug to treat the child as there had not been a case of diphtheria in Spain for almost 28 years due to the countrys high vaccination coverage (over 95%). The antitoxin was eventually delivered from Moscow to Barcelona by the Russian ambassador.
The family is devastated and admit that they feel tricked, because they were not properly informed, Catalan public health chief Antoni Mateu told El País. They have a deep sense of guilt, which we are trying to rid them of.
The child remains in critical condition in Vall dHebron hospitals intensive care unit, but is responding to treatment. Health officials have launched an investigation to find the original carrier, which they admit could be difficult if the carrier isnt showing any symptoms. All those in contact with the child are under surveillance, and his classmates have been checked to see if theyve been vaccinated. As a cautionary procedure, they have also given the children preventive medicine.
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Spain has first diptheria case in 30 years. VACCINATE YOUR ****ING CHILDREN [View all]
Recursion
Jun 2015
OP
I am so much NOT an anti-vaxxer, that I got an adult booster, and so did all my adult children,
pnwmom
Jun 2015
#47
No one said anything at all about measels eradication in the article or this thread
Godhumor
Jun 2015
#18
"keep us out of public school" You can't go to public school because you're a senior citizen.
LeftyMom
Jun 2015
#35
Using the WHO site, there has been one case of diphtheria in the US in the last ten years
Godhumor
Jun 2015
#44
Oh, I have a whole list of places to keep you out of for refusing vaccinations.
Starry Messenger
Jun 2015
#49
And get an ADULT diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus vaccine for YOURSELF, per CDC recommendations.
pnwmom
Jun 2015
#43
we fear FOR unvaccinated small children, who are the victims of child abuse at the hands
geek tragedy
Jun 2015
#64