An angry mum has taken to Facebook to slam the anti-vaccination culture after her newborn baby was possibly exposed to measles.
Jennifer White from Pickering in Canada received a phone call from York Region Public Health on Tuesday, to say that her and her son Griffin were potentially exposed to the measles virus while attending a newborn weigh-in appointment at her doctor’s surgery on January 27th.
Griffin, who was 15 days old at the time, hasn’t been vaccinated because he is too young to receive the the two-dose MMR vaccine, meant to be given at 12 months and between the ages of 4 and 6.
“I’m angry. Angry as hell,” Jennifer wrote in her Facebook post, which has now been shared over 250,000 times.
“If you have chosen to not vaccinate yourself or your child, I blame you.”
She continued, “You know what vaccines protect your children from? Pain. Suffering. Irreparable harm. Death.”
Jennifer is to wait at home, in isolation, with Griffin and her three-year-old daughter, until February 17th, after which the 21 days of possible incubation will have passed. We can’t imagine how worrying this time must be for her and just hope that they all remain well.
“This is my son Griffin, and he may have measles.”
