Thanks in part to the hard employment ofcelebrity cranksandsocial media bot , anti - vaccine conspiracies are onlygetting strong . So it ’s no surprisal that measles – a highly contagious , yet highly preventable , disease – is turning up in franklyterrifying levelsin the US despite being declare eliminated closely two X ago .
In the face of this public health issue , you ’d think aesculapian master would be among the first to promote the benefits of vaccination . However , a nanny from Texas has been investigate and free this week after she wrote a disgraceful situation about a yearling ’s measles case on the anti - vaxxer Facebook grouping " lofty Parents of Unvaccinated Children – Texas " . The group is no longer publically approachable .
Even more horrifyingly , she even described how she consider infect her own child with the disease - not only putting them in risk , but potentially causing an outbreak in the wider community .
" So quite a few people do it I ’m a nurse , " she wrote . " And for the first time in my career , I saw morbilli this week . "
Although anti - vaxxers would have you believe otherwise , measles isa pretty dire disease – that ’s plausibly why people one-time enough to remember a time before vaccinationsoverwhelmingly supportmaking them compulsory . For the nurse , the shell was optic - opening .
" [ H]onestly , it was rough , " she wrote . " The kid was super gruesome . "
describe how the young son had been admitted to intensive tutelage due to his illness , the nurse told group members how she " … could n’t touch him without him cry / moaning in pain . It was terrible . "
" I think it ’s easy for us nonvaxxers to make August 15 but most of us have never and will never see one of these diseases , " she comment .
Although there issome inquiry to suggestthat being confront withthe consequences of non - vaccinationcan counteract anti - vax opinion , the nurse importune her aspect have not changed , even commenting that she " thought about swab his mouth and bringing it home to [ her 13 - twelvemonth - sometime child ] :) "
" By no mean have I changed my vax posture , and I never will , " she wrote in her mail . " I just want to share my experience and how much worse it was than I expected . "
Four days subsequently , she was put down .
" We take these thing very gravely as the privacy and well - being of our patients is always a top priority , " the hospital allege in astatement . " After an internal investigation , this mortal is no longer with the organization . "
" The views of this employee do not represent that of the organization , " they confirmed on Facebook .
This case examine the total routine of measles infections in Texas uprise to eight this yr . And in a acrimonious twist of sarcasm , the nursemaid ’s own political orientation may well be directly to blame for the yearling ’s stipulation : although the rest of his family had received measles inoculation , ABC reportsthat the boy was too young for the process – making him reliant on theherd immunitythat anti - vaccine campaigners menace .
" If you do n’t believe in vaccines , you probably should n’t go into pediatrics , " UT McGovern Medical School ’s Assistant Director of Humanities and Ethics Professor Rebecca Lunstroth told ABC."[T]his is the standard and if you do n’t think in the standard , you should probably go into another practice . "
