Attend this informative presentation on the importance of vaccines as vaccine requirements are being changed. Know someone unsure of vaccines? Invite them to address their questions and concerns.
Should I get vaccinated? Should I believe the protestations by Robert Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services? Should I believe the info I see online, on social media? What’s the real science behind vaccines? Bring your concerns, questions, and fears and learn about how vaccines have changed the course of history of infectious diseases and saved hundreds of millions of lives.
Joe Elm will share his 50 years of medical and scientific experience in The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Leahi Hospital; the Department of Tropical Medicine in the John A. Burns School of Medicine; and the Disease Investigation Branch at the Hawaii State Department of Health.
The following testimony is from a concerned mother and grandmother who shares her perspective on the importance of vaccines:
Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis — You haven’t heard of this disease, even though it occurs in developing countries, because we haven’t had it in the U.S. for over half a century because we have vaccines!
It is fatal and has no cure. It has no treatment (except a few to temporarily relieve symptoms). The disease generally occurs in children and adolescents.
However, it is totally preventable with measles vaccines given in infancy. With recent changes to federal vaccine recommendations for entering school, we can expect this disease to start appearing in the U.S. in about ten years (in unvaccinated children who are babies right now).
The infection usually begins in infancy but doesn’t show symptoms until about age 10. The brain is affected and the child deteriorates over the following few years, generally dying in their teenage years.
If the mandatory measles vaccine is not reinstated now, we can expect to see Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis appearing in the U.S. in about 2035.
Such a preventable tragedy of the most horrific kind.
