Get a Vaccine Checkup Before Traveling with Your Kids
Get a vaccine checkup before traveling out of the country with your kids so that you don’t bring home measles or other vaccine-preventable-diseases.
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The Myth That Measles Isn’t Deadly
Not only are measles infections deadly, usually from pneumonia and encephalitis, but a natural measles infection can also cause years of immunosuppression, increasing your risk of death from other diseases too.
Can Vaccines Cause ITP?
Although measles containing vaccines can rarely cause ITP, vaccines prevent many more diseases that can cause ITP.
Hedda Get Bedda Doll and Other Measles Stories
The Hedda Get Bedda doll is sometimes used to push the myth that vaccine-preventable diseases, like measles and chicken pox, aren’t that serious, helping folks justify their decisions to skip or delay vaccines and leaving their kids unprotected.