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Originally Posted by goofyballer
That's the great thing about Twitter. Any ****wit with fingers can ramble on about **** they know nothing about.
Measles is BAD - I was doing my peds rotation at Childrens in Chicago when we had an outbreak (Ethiopean refugees) and a bunch of kids ended up in the ICU - can't remember if any died.
Also had a pregnant woman check in at 6p, intubated at 7p dead at 9p due to chickenpox pneumonia - pregnant women have some degree of immune dysfunction for physiologic reasons and can die kind of dramatically.
The mumps in kids is mostly an annoyance - in adults, not so much. Men get a charming condition called orchitis, where your testicles swell up like cantaloupes and hurt like hell. No thanks.
As usual with this stuff, there's a tiny bit of possible relevance buried in the bull**** - there's pretty good evidence that a lot of childhood disease (asthma/eczema/reactive airway disease) is related to little Bobby staring at his smartphone all day instead of eating dirt/getting grubby/screwing around outside like kids have always done until about 30 years or so ago. But that has NOTHING to do with immunizations.
MM MD