To the editor: Because of the writer of this text for her heart-rending report on the devastating, nearly at all times deadly situation of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis ensuing from measles (“Docs warn of a lethal complication from measles outbreaks,” March 17).
I’m 82 years outdated. As a baby, I contracted chickenpox, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, scarlet fever and measles. I used to be lucky to don’t have any lasting issues from these doubtlessly life-threatening illnesses. When the polio vaccine got here out, my dad and mom rushed to get it to my sisters and me. To our dad and mom, it was a no brainer.
As an educator for 50 years in biology and anatomy/physiology, I discover it incomprehensible that many dad and mom have chosen to hearken to folks like Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his cohort of sycophants who’ve dissuaded them from vaccinating their youngsters and themselves.
Our grownup youngsters are 54 and 48. Now we have by no means nervous about them affected by preventable ailments 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 dad and mom have been born within the early 1900s, it was thought-about an uncommon blessing to have the ability to elevate your whole youngsters to maturity. The proliferation and severity of ailments attributable to viruses continuously robbed dad and mom of their valuable little ones. Let’s imagine that there was fixed battle between people and viruses for 1000’s of years.
Over the previous few many years, 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 struggle 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 manner, it could possibly be thought-about a mortal sin to not give one’s youngsters that chance to develop up and expertise an extended, disease-free life.
The virus battle has been gained. It is senseless to throw away the armaments now.
Zena Thorpe, Chatsworth
