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Related: About this forumA young child in Ontario has died of measles
A young child has died of measles in Ontario, the first measles death in the province in more than a decade, Public Health Ontario reports.
The child was under the age of five and was not vaccinated against the highly infectious virus, the agencys most recent surveillance report shows.
So far this year, five children aged nine and under in Ontario have been hospitalized with a measles infection, all of whom were unimmunized. One of these five children has recently died of the infection, the report shows.
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One dose of measles vaccine at 12 months of age or older provides more than 90 per cent protection against infection and two doses provides very close to 100 per cent protection against infection throughout childhood, said Morris.
Full article https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/a-young-child-in-ontario-has-died-of-measles/article_3f5e6e14-13d1-11ef-bef6-2b5f14b1ee24.html

Skittles
(163,600 posts)WTF is wrong with these anti-vax parents
BootinUp
(49,658 posts)would be my guess.
3Hotdogs
(14,106 posts)Liberty Belle
(9,660 posts)If I were in charge, I would mandate measles vaccines and announce that the parents of any future child who dies will be prosecuted for wrongful deaths. That should encourage the anti-vax idiots to get their children vaccinated.
Irish_Dem
(68,614 posts)This should be child abuse and endangerment.
3catwoman3
(26,547 posts)RockRaven
(17,165 posts)Every last one of you!