Costa Rica has measles for the first time since 2006

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The last case of native measles was 2006, the last imported case was 2014, but an unvaccinated child who has been in contact with measles children in his school, has now bought it over to them.

AIBU to think, that without a genuine medical exemption, people should not be allowed to travel to foreign countries whilst unvaccinated?

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There’s so many decisions you make as a parent where there are a range of ‘right’ answers. I’ll admit to being a bit lentil weavy when it comes to bleach and designer clothes. But when it’s actually life threatening you do everything you can and I struggle to understand parents who would risk/let their child suffer.
When Ds was little he would get terrible tonsillitis, and getting him to take the medicine and antibiotics wasn’t easy, he cried and resisted but as his mum I made it happen and he was better for it. There’s a parent I know who lets their child take there medicine as and when they want to and never forces it. Child is 6 and condition isn’t fatal but it does make the child’s life harder. I cannot understand this.
I also think an adult who was not vaccinated should have recourse on their parents.

I also am a bit lentil weaving i did extended bf i co sleep blw attachment parenting but i also vaccinate. Any and all going they get although i am still a bit dubious on the flu one, last year caused all sorts of nastiness.

I have two with autism and two without fwiw the younger with asd i knew right off the bat that he was different.

I think they have vaccs earlier now as there are more of them and they need to have a certain amount of time before they can have the top ups of them. So regardless of age there will still need to be a month between the first two lots and then 3 months for the next but they want them to be protected asap. We were late due to illness for one dc and the only issue was the waiting between sets and obviously it was longer until they were fully protected.

When I was at school there was a girl who had some undefined disability including learning difficulties and a hare lip. Anyway, she was bullied and rejected at school before dying of breast cancer in her thirties ( she found a lump but didn’t tell anyone until it was too late.) She told me once that she was ‘like this because my mum got German Measles when she was pregnant with me.’ Her life was shit and now she is dead and I think about this when people I meet tell me that the MMR is poisonous and causes autism.

Bark I think you are right. I remember children damaged by Thalidomide, I knew someone who had a hunched back and one leg much shorter due to Polio, and I remember having measles. None of the other childhood illnesses made much impact on me, but I still remember the pain of the spots in my throat. There is a gap in that memory because I was out cold for three days. Luckily I came through it unscathed, but DH lost most of his hearing.

Also remember my mother panicking about my sister revisiting while she was pregnant because I had German Measles.

Mistletoe that is so sad.

I think the people who’ve said a lot of people have no memory of or have never seen the diseases we vaccinate against, so can be quite blasè about how serious they actually are.
I was worried about having the whooping cough vaccine when pregnant with my first DC. Then my Nana practically slapped me and reminded me that she watched her newborn baby brother die from whooping cough in 1939 She said there’s no sound like the cough that comes with that disease. That was enough for me. I went and got the vaccination that same week.

@MyBreadIsEggy

Awww. My grandad lost his sister to diphtheria. People these days have no idea what they're not facing, if you know what I mean.

@lyralalala

God that's horrendous. Your poor, poor family. It's just unimaginable.

Actually, anyone who's a confirmed 'Anti-vaxer' only needs to have a wander round their local churchyard. You can see from the dates how often children were carried off from epidemics. The headstones engraved with the names of 4/5/6 from the same family are very distressing.

FurrySlipper
In my hometown, there’s a section of the cemetery that is full of people who died from a Typhoid outbreak in the 1900’s. A lot of them are children
I’m guessing it was the same kind of thinking as when they buried those who died of smallpox and plague - keep the infected bodies together to somewhat contain the infection?