Posted on 03/08/2019 8:59:12 AM PST by C19fan
An unvaccinated 6-year-old boy from Oregon has racked up more than $800,000 in medical bills after almost dying in the state's first case of pediatric tetanus in 30 years.
The unidentified boy contracted tetanus - a serious infection caused by bacteria entering a wound - through a cut on his forehead while playing outside on a farm in 2017.
It was the first time a child in Oregon had been diagnosed with rare disease in more than 30 years, according to a report on the case by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday.
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I’m anti vaccine, but this is different. Step on a rusty nail, get the shot...duh.
Sorry for the kid, but those parents are fools.
Noticed this article is from the UK. Wonder if it’s getting any coverage in the MSM here.
It is but did not use them because of copyright issues.
Seems like a lot of anti-vaccine idiots in the news lately. Are we reaching a critical mass of people skipping vaccines?
On a recent visit to my doctor he offered a tetanus shot because the insurance company requests it now. Since it had been over ten years I took the shot. 3 weeks later I can still feel a small bit of pain at injection site. I can’t remember this ever happening before.
You probably got a Chinese made vaccine.
Here’s a piece in the Oregonian.
Yes but he didn’t get it from a vaccine
Thanks.
Those shots used to be huge when I was a schoolboy. Man did they hurt back then. Not bad at all now.
“3 weeks later I can still feel a small bit of pain at injection site.”
That’s the autism starting to spread.
This confirming the concept of herd immunity.
You no longer get ‘just’ a tetanus shot anymore. It’s a TDaP. Why give you one vaccine when they can bill your insurance for three...
“That’s the autism starting to spread.”
LOL!
Oh goody! Another chance for the morons to claim it was poor sanitation not lack of vaccination that caused this near death experience. What about yesterday’s story of the adult guy who nearly died from measles because his stupid mom wouldn’t have him vaccinated as a child.
Childhood diseases kill unvaccinated adults. Fact, not fiction.
And for the morons high fiving rand Paul they forgot to include that DR PAUL vaccinated his own kids.
The parents should be in jail for child abuse. Take their farm. And then ship them off to Zimbabwe. Stupid people.
hospital billing scam being exploited for politics
actually there is a separate tetanus shot.
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