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Let’s protect each other
If you want to understand the danger
that measles poses to our society, turn to
the beloved children’s author Roald Dahl.
In 1988, he wrote an open letter describing
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the tragic death of his daughter who
had contracted measles and developed
from it a form of encephalitis — an
infl ammation of the brain — from which
there is no cure or recovery.
For decades, the measles vaccine has
saved countless children from a similar
fate — and spared parents from enduring
unimaginable heartbreak. Readily available
and aff ordable, the vaccine took a
serious public health threat and brought
it to the brink of eradication.
Only the misinformation spread by the
anti-vaxxer movement in this century has
allowed for the deadly threat of measles to
re-emerge, as we have witnessed in recent
weeks. Th e city shut down a Flushing
school on May 13 for failing to comply
with an order not to admit unvaccinated
students amid the outbreak.
Hundreds of people in the city have
come down with the measles in the highest
numbers in more than a quarter-century
— and the most infuriating aspect
is that it could have been so easily prevented.
Mayor de Blasio and his administration,
to their credit, have taken a zero tolerance
approach to the outbreak. Th ey’ve ordered
mandatory vaccinations in “hot zones”
where measles cases have been most prevalent,
and closed schools and other institutions
that failed to comply with city
mandates on protecting children.
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The administration’s aggressive
approach to fi ghting the measles outbreak
is not some knee jerk reaction to
a minor crisis. Measles is not a minor
illness; it’s a highly contagious virus in
which indirect contact with an infected
person puts you at serious risk of becoming
infected.
Defensive measures by public health
agencies, however, can only do so much.
It’s up to all of us to protect ourselves and
our children from infectious diseases such
as measles — and the best and easiest way
to do that is to be vaccinated.
Th e anti-vaxxer movement has tricked a
number of parents into thinking that the
vaccines are dangerous. Nothing about
this movement is grounded in reality or
fact. It’s a regression to the dark ages in
which generations of kids lived with the
fear of contracting debilitating illnesses
such as measles, cholera, whooping cough
and polio.
And the worst part is that it poses a
grave risk to children with compromised
immune systems who are more susceptible
to contracting these viruses than those
who are vaccinated.
Th is goes beyond a parent’s personal
choice for their children. Th e choice
not to vaccinate poses a hazard to thousands
of others whose parents who want
to guard their children in the best possible
way.
Please protect your children, and each
other, by making sure they are vaccinated.
Let’s reverse the backward trend and trust
science once again.
Publisher & E ditor Victoria Schneps-Yunis
Co-Publisher Joshua A. Schneps
Chief Operating Officer Bob Brennan
E ditor-In-Chief Robert Pozarycki
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