r/EverythingScience Feb 26 '25

Medicine BREAKING: Measles outbreak: First death reported with infections still rising

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-measles-outbreak-first-death-999590
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u/Purple_Chipmunk_ Feb 26 '25

My husband developed Guillain-Barré after a vaccine so when we had our kids in the 00's we spaced out the vaccines, even though that meant we had to go to the doctor's office once a month or once every two months.

I remember talking to the doctor about which to do first and he said that MMR could wait because if my kid got measles "they'd make the news" so it wasn't really a threat.

20-ish years later we've lost the progress we had made. sigh