To the editor: Visitor contributor Robert B. Shpiner’s anger with the irresponsible conduct of our present secretary of Well being and Human Companies is well-justified (“RFK Jr.’s deal with viral nonsense is placing youngsters’s lives in danger,” Feb. 22). Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an entire failure at maintaining us protected from contracting controllable infections. Adults who survived measles as unvaccinated youngsters within the ‘50s and ‘60s ought to communicate up concerning the seriousness of this illness.
I used to be 9 years previous after I was identified with measles. At the moment, most physicians acknowledged the signs and tried to rapidly isolate the sick baby whereas the illness performed out. I keep in mind being very sick and feverish till I recovered. I used to be fortunate! I didn’t expertise the doable mind injury, lack of sight or, for some, lack of life. However I keep in mind even now, 70 years later, how in poor health I used to be.
There isn’t any medication that may deal with this extremely contagious illness. The MMR vaccine, nevertheless, is very efficient at stopping one from contracting measles, mumps and rubella.
We’d like extra physicians to talk up and protest this present administration’s utter disregard for our kids’s well being earlier than we return to the times earlier than there have been protected and efficient vaccines out there to stem infections. I urge anybody uncertain of vaccination to hearken to physicians and nurses and get their unprotected youngsters vaccinated instantly.
Susan Waelder, North Hollywood
