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3rd February 2015
10:47am GMT

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In 12 hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her."He continues: "It is not yet generally accepted that measles can be a dangerous illness. Believe me, it is. In my opinion parents who now refuse to have their children immunised are putting the lives of those children at risk." The author continues by saying he feels it is "almost a crime" to allow your child to go unimmunised. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the current outbreak, which is believed to have started with an unimmunised woman at Disneyland, originated in California. 102 people are now infected, with the highly contagious disease sweeping 14 states so far. The anti-vaxx movement is in decline but anti-vaccine misinformation is still rife in Ireland and experts have warned it's resulting in repeated outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough and TB. The website I Waste So Much Time has published this cartoon entitled 'Faces of Vaccine Denialism'. Do you recognise yourself in the line-up? Join the conversation on our Facebook page.
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