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There are now 9 confirmed cases of measles in Hennepin County.

The Department of Health recommends strongly that children who have only had one dose of measles immunization get their second dose BEFORE the age of 4 for protection.

Please consider doing this for your child's sake. Measles kills 1 out of every 100 people and is one of the most contagious diseases extant in the world today, spreading via airborne, not droplet, transmission. If you are in a waiting room with someone with measles, then you have been exposed. Period. The end.

No comments about immunizations being evil, please. I'm tired, I'm looking at a potential outbreak, and anyone who does so will get deleted from my friendslist.

Date: 2011-03-23 11:47 am (UTC)
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Your friends should call their oncologist and ask-- in general, until chemo is done for good, live vaccines aren't given. He's at risk because the chemo is beating up on his immune system.

Which means that the poor attendance last night at the Department of Health clinic is actually endangering this child.

I also sometimes fantasize about doing violence to Wakefield.

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