Child in Liverpool dies of measles :(

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I think that vaccine hesitancy is worse after the Covid nonsense conspiracies than it ever was during the Andrew Wakefield era (I had young children in both).

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/child-measles-dies-alder-hey-32048907.amp

Terribly sad. The article says the child had no other health issues, information which presumably comes from Alder Hey. The vaccination rate quoted for the Liverpool area is low so there is the possibility of an epidemic there. I hope mass vaccination in the next few days is feasible and gets a good take up.

It’s really concerning.

Two children in a decade. It's hardly an epidemic is it?

It's absolutely tragic and so preventable. I often wonder that parents who have never seen the devasting effects of childhood illness and child death due to these, really get how amazing vaccinations are and how many deaths they have prevented. My parents, born in the 30's/40's had us vaccinated because they had seen children die. My DF had two siblings who died in infancy. I also have a good friend who contracted polio and has a calliper on her leg. I would urge all parents to get their children vaccinated.

I assume the health boards have a good idea of the vaccinations uptake figures and can foresee an issue.

Absolutely preventable. I hope the parents are charged with neglect and manslaughter.

It says they are believed to have other health complications.

Don't be so stupid.

Uptake is low. Daughter's school is in the neighbouring borough of Knowsley and we've been getting weekly notifications in the school news letter and posters up on the school doors etc as there have been concerns in the area for a while now.

It’s two too many.

Measles is entirely preventable, uptake in that area is particularly low, and anti-vax bullshit is much more widespread than it used to be. It could well become a major problem if something doesn’t change.

The child had other health issues and the parents refused to vaccinate. That’s neglect.

I'm very much in the 'have all the jabs' camp.
My brother was born after my mum caught German Measles in the 50s (pre rubella jab).

60 odd now with a variety of physical and intellectual disabilities. I wonder if it's because younger generations haven't seen or experienced the impact of these illnesses that they think they're 'not that bad'.

Childhood vaccines should be mandatory.

This is why there needs to be herd immunity though. Not necessarily to protect children who will be fine if they get measles but to protect the ones that won't. Yes parents also should have vaccinated especially as the child had other health issues but so should everyone. Healthy child or not ( if they can)

Anti vaxxers really do have blood on their hands. 🥺

Totally agree @Absentmindedsmile

You can’t say that for sure. If the child had serious allergies or anything, the parents may have thought they were protecting them. Children with health conditions can react to vaccines.

There are other children in the hospital in Merseyside. Since measles is so infectious, the more people who refuse vaccines, the more cases we will see like this.

It’s also very disruptive to a child’s education if they have to take weeks off to recover from measles (my dd was off for 2 weeks in December due to having scarlet fever and I never want to see her that poorly in hospital again).

Measles comes with a variety of other risks. I had a friend at school who was blind in one eye due to measles. It's also a horrible experience for the children who catch it.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/measles/

No. What it actually means is that the child developed health complications from measles itself.

If the dc was under 1 they wouldn't have been eligible for the vaccine so until you know the facts you need to wind your neck in.

This is why we need herd immunity, to protect those can't have the vaccinations.

Then they’d be described as a baby? Not a child. I stand by what I’ve said. Anti-vaxxers are negligent parents.

No MMR = no admittance to nursery or school. We have to drawn the line somewhere.

It’s disgusting that in this day and age we are allowing parents to cause lasting harm (and death) to children whilst putting entire communities at risk by refusing to vaccinate. We need to go zero-tolerance on this or I genuinely fear for the future.

I am all for MMR, but that's not what the article says. It says the child had other health complications, ie not from measles.

My child is on immunocompromising medications for IBD. They are fully vaccinated but measles would be devastating.