To the editor: Due to the creator of this text for her heart-rending report on the devastating, nearly at all times deadly situation of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis ensuing from measles (“Doctors warn of a deadly complication from measles outbreaks,” March 17).
I’m 82 years previous. As a toddler, I contracted chickenpox, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, scarlet fever and measles. I used to be lucky to haven’t any lasting issues from these doubtlessly life-threatening illnesses. When the polio vaccine got here out, my mother and father rushed to get it to my sisters and me. To our mother and father, it was a no brainer.
As an educator for 50 years in biology and anatomy/physiology, I discover it incomprehensible that many mother and father have chosen to take heed to individuals like Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his cohort of sycophants who’ve dissuaded them from vaccinating their kids and themselves.
Our grownup kids are 54 and 48. We now have by no means anxious about them affected by preventable illnesses as I did. For my spouse and me, getting us all vaccinated has at all times been a no brainer.
Jerry Lasnik, Thousand Oaks
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To the editor: On the time that my mother and father had been born within the early 1900s, it was thought-about an uncommon blessing to have the ability to elevate your whole kids to maturity. The proliferation and severity of illnesses brought on by viruses steadily robbed mother and father of their treasured little ones. Let’s imagine that there was fixed warfare between people and viruses for hundreds of years.
Over the previous few a long time, scientists have found methods of overcoming the ravages of these pesky microbes by strengthening and arming the human immune system to acknowledge an invasion and combat it. So now, it’s extremely uncommon to not be capable to elevate all of our youngsters to maturity.
It appears to me that since we now have the scientific data to arm our youngsters on this approach, it may very well be thought-about a mortal sin to not give one’s kids that chance to develop up and expertise an extended, disease-free life.
The virus warfare has been received. It is mindless to throw away the armaments now.
Zena Thorpe, Chatsworth
