{"id":383990,"date":"2018-11-07T00:29:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/watch-how-we-viewed-measles\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T00:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:29:55","slug":"watch-how-we-viewed-measles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/watch-how-we-viewed-measles\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: How We Viewed Measles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The way Measles is discussed in today\u2019s world, you\u2019d think it was similar to the black plague. We tout vaccinations for saving millions of people\u2019s lives when it comes to the measles, and it\u2019s likely if you were born after the measles vaccine came into the picture, you might assume the measles commonly killed people.<\/p>\n

But are the measles truly as diseases like Ebola for example? Could we view this more as a routine childhood illness?<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heard of it, a news report comes out terrifying the public about new measles outbreak that has affected 17 children in an area populated in the millions. For weeks,\u00a0reporters go on about how this could spread across the entire country, affecting millions, all because someone didn\u2019t vaccinate. Yet, that\u2019s not the cause for the spread. It was actually\u00a0the vaccinated<\/a>\u00a0that caused the spread. Why all the fear? Why the hysteria? Is measles even that dangerous?<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>I recall asking my parents and people from even older generations about the measles and what it was like when they were younger. All seemed to say it was a pretty standard\u00a0and harmless childhood illness that would last a few days to a week. Some red dots, a fever maybe, and a couple days home from school In some cases, I was told stories about how it was commonplace for\u00a0 people\u00a0to bring their kids around other kids who had measles so they could contract it themselves and be immune to it from there forward. What? They actually wanted their kids to get the measles? Indeed.<\/p>\n

Yet today, thanks to irrational advertising, poorly educated doctors and misinformed parents, the measles are seen as an extremely dangerous illness that…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The way Measles is discussed in today\u2019s world, you\u2019d think it was similar to the black plague. We tout vaccinations for saving millions of people\u2019s lives when it comes to the measles, and it\u2019s likely if you were born after the measles vaccine came into the picture, you might assume the measles commonly killed people. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}