Mom Warns Everyone About The Dangers Of Anti-Vaxxing After Her Daughter Ends Up In ER
The flaming hot debate between those for and against vaccinating children has flared up once again. Registered nurse Camille Echols’ daughter Ashley recently had to be treated in the ER after being exposed to a child with chickenpox, which prompted the mom to pen a scathing essay about ‘anti-vaxxers’ and the danger they create for kids like hers.
Anti-vaxxers have used a number of medical and ethical arguments to make a case for themselves. Some take issue with the supposed ‘harmful ingredients’ inside vaccines that they believe may cause allergic reactions, pneumonia, and even neurological disabilities like autism, notions which have largely been debunked. Others are angered by laws requiring all children to be vaccinated in order to attend public schools, and accuse the government of intervening in personal medical matters.
Despite the curiosity anti-vaxxers provoke, overwhelming evidence from the Centers for Disease Control maintains that vaccines are safe for children and adults, and that they are necessary in order to protect the public. For children like Ashley Echols, who live with compromised immunity, it only takes one unvaccinated child to transmit a disease that could kill them.
Read Camille’s plea below, and tell us what you think in the comments!
(h/t: scarymommy)
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Share on FacebookSeatbelts can sometimes have negative side effects too, but would you let your children drive without them? No. If children can get vaccinated and their parent choose not to do it, it's child abuse, pure and simple.
Amen. I simply do not understand these anti-vaccine parents. Do they not realize THEY were vaccinated without harm?
Load More Replies...I'll never understand anti-vaxxers. It's a luxury only rich country can afford.
Definitivly! People do not even understand the luck they have to live in 21st century and in a country where vaccines are accessible. I mean, Black Plague: 30 to 50% of European population killed! Malaria 500 000 people killed each year NOWDAYS! Hell, what we call in France "Spanish Flu" killed more people than WW1! I wonder if the problem doesn't partially come from the fact that we "forgot" to be affraid of dying. We do not remember famines or epidemics. We're supposed to get old, we do not realize that it's not "natural".
Load More Replies...The scientist responsible did not commit suicide. In fact he still preaches at talks to convince others to let kids be at risk. A man with morals that low wouldn't do the decent thing and kill himself.
Yep, Andrew Wakefield - still pushing his b******t. That guy should get covered in eggs and tomatoes wherever he goes, and not be still profiting from it >_<
Load More Replies...My son has Aspergers...he's also had vaccines...I still would give him the vaccines today because there is NO PROOF vaccines cause autism
My sister and I both got the exact same vaccines. One of us has autism, the other doesn't. The vaccine had nothing to do with it!
Load More Replies...My father is deaf so I know a number of older people who lost their hearing, often through contracting measles (rubella) as children. You can bet they all have their children and grandchildren vaccinated. No one became autistic from a vaccine.
Though I WAS vaccinated as a child and still contracted measles when I was older...
Load More Replies...How anyone can be so ignorant and CHOOSE to remain ignorant by not doing research and believing any c**p anyone says without proof - like the autism information. All you have to do is look around you and notice that people aren't dying of measles anymore like the used to, on top of many, many horrid diseased to see that it works. I'm all for natural selection if you're dumb enough to not want to be vaccinated yourself, but to put your kids and other kids in danger because you can't do a little bit of research is truly disgusting. Would you also be against your kid having a blood transfusion? Not give them medicine when they really need it because of the tiny chances of a side effect? Just awful.
But You're believing everything that's fed to you too!!!! Is it your business what people do....no! I pray no one comes and tells you want to do with your life. Be careful what you say before it back fires on you. All of you people are quick to roll and condemn people in what they choose. But one day I hope half of you see that not everything is false. People have lost their children because of vaccines and you say how...show me proof (don't you know things by having commen sense?).....I pray you go through nothing like that because its quite selfish of all you one sided individuals to say what you say as if nothing can't happen to you to make you see the other side.
Load More Replies...When it comes to politics I usually have the opinion that everyone is entitled to their opinion, sometimes I find their opinions abhorrently wrong, like trickle-down-economics, but I don't hold their beliefs against them. When I meet people that think Nickelback makes good music, they are wrong and I pity them, but I don't hold it against them. But the two types of people whose views are so dangerously wrongheaded that they disgust me are Anit-vaxxers and Climate change deniers, the evidence is in and crystal clear on these issues, all the scientists are in agreement, aside from a couple of bought scientist with ulterior motives. The consensus is clear and these people and their beliefs are actively hurting people. These aren't views that a person can have that has no effect on anyone else, they are hurting others with their selfishness.
I honestly can't believe some people would prefer to have a dead non autistic child than a living autistic one (Vaccines don't cause autism)
If you do not vaccinate your child, you're a moron. That study was debunked, and found to be falsified 10 years ago. Stop hurting your own children!
If someone does not vaccinate his or her child, that child shouldn't be allowed to go to school--for starters.
Load More Replies...Seatbelts can sometimes have negative side effects too, but would you let your children drive without them? No. If children can get vaccinated and their parent choose not to do it, it's child abuse, pure and simple.
Amen. I simply do not understand these anti-vaccine parents. Do they not realize THEY were vaccinated without harm?
Load More Replies...I'll never understand anti-vaxxers. It's a luxury only rich country can afford.
Definitivly! People do not even understand the luck they have to live in 21st century and in a country where vaccines are accessible. I mean, Black Plague: 30 to 50% of European population killed! Malaria 500 000 people killed each year NOWDAYS! Hell, what we call in France "Spanish Flu" killed more people than WW1! I wonder if the problem doesn't partially come from the fact that we "forgot" to be affraid of dying. We do not remember famines or epidemics. We're supposed to get old, we do not realize that it's not "natural".
Load More Replies...The scientist responsible did not commit suicide. In fact he still preaches at talks to convince others to let kids be at risk. A man with morals that low wouldn't do the decent thing and kill himself.
Yep, Andrew Wakefield - still pushing his b******t. That guy should get covered in eggs and tomatoes wherever he goes, and not be still profiting from it >_<
Load More Replies...My son has Aspergers...he's also had vaccines...I still would give him the vaccines today because there is NO PROOF vaccines cause autism
My sister and I both got the exact same vaccines. One of us has autism, the other doesn't. The vaccine had nothing to do with it!
Load More Replies...My father is deaf so I know a number of older people who lost their hearing, often through contracting measles (rubella) as children. You can bet they all have their children and grandchildren vaccinated. No one became autistic from a vaccine.
Though I WAS vaccinated as a child and still contracted measles when I was older...
Load More Replies...How anyone can be so ignorant and CHOOSE to remain ignorant by not doing research and believing any c**p anyone says without proof - like the autism information. All you have to do is look around you and notice that people aren't dying of measles anymore like the used to, on top of many, many horrid diseased to see that it works. I'm all for natural selection if you're dumb enough to not want to be vaccinated yourself, but to put your kids and other kids in danger because you can't do a little bit of research is truly disgusting. Would you also be against your kid having a blood transfusion? Not give them medicine when they really need it because of the tiny chances of a side effect? Just awful.
But You're believing everything that's fed to you too!!!! Is it your business what people do....no! I pray no one comes and tells you want to do with your life. Be careful what you say before it back fires on you. All of you people are quick to roll and condemn people in what they choose. But one day I hope half of you see that not everything is false. People have lost their children because of vaccines and you say how...show me proof (don't you know things by having commen sense?).....I pray you go through nothing like that because its quite selfish of all you one sided individuals to say what you say as if nothing can't happen to you to make you see the other side.
Load More Replies...When it comes to politics I usually have the opinion that everyone is entitled to their opinion, sometimes I find their opinions abhorrently wrong, like trickle-down-economics, but I don't hold their beliefs against them. When I meet people that think Nickelback makes good music, they are wrong and I pity them, but I don't hold it against them. But the two types of people whose views are so dangerously wrongheaded that they disgust me are Anit-vaxxers and Climate change deniers, the evidence is in and crystal clear on these issues, all the scientists are in agreement, aside from a couple of bought scientist with ulterior motives. The consensus is clear and these people and their beliefs are actively hurting people. These aren't views that a person can have that has no effect on anyone else, they are hurting others with their selfishness.
I honestly can't believe some people would prefer to have a dead non autistic child than a living autistic one (Vaccines don't cause autism)
If you do not vaccinate your child, you're a moron. That study was debunked, and found to be falsified 10 years ago. Stop hurting your own children!
If someone does not vaccinate his or her child, that child shouldn't be allowed to go to school--for starters.
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