Around six weeks ago, Meghan Mcnutt-Anderson gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Brielle.
Six weeks ago, Brielle was healthy.
But now, after being diagnosed with whooping cough, Brielle is lying in a tiny hospital crib, fighting for her life.
While she sat with her baby girl, Meghan posted a blistering status to Facebook, urging parents to think about what their choice might mean when they actively decide against vaccinating their kids.
The text of Meghan’s post reads:
THIS IS WHY YOU IMMUNISE YOUR CHILDREN.
This is my 5 week old daughter, Brielle. She has contracted Pertussis aka whooping cough, which is contracted through unimmunised people, generally children. We have spent the last 3 days in the hospital at her bedside holding her up and patting her back as she coughs. You see, every time she coughs she stops breathing, turns blue and goes limp. She has too much mucous and her airways are too small to cough it up and they become blocked and we have to manually help her pass it.
We will likely be doing this to Brielle for the next 2 weeks at least.
Brielle is to young to be immunised yet and children whose parents chose not to immunise them, put small babies like Brielle, as well as others with compromised immune systems, at risk. Had we not brought her to the hospital when we did, I don’t doubt that she could have easily died with one bad coughing fit. Please feel free to share and spread the word.
If you are considering not immunising your children, think first about the people you put at risk who CAN’T get the immunisation. If our story makes one parent choose to immunise their children that otherwise wouldn’t have, lives can be saved.
Meghan has asked people to share her Facebook status to raise awareness. So let’s help her out, shall we?
Please share this post to help raise awareness about why vaccinations are so important: they save lives.
This is a gallery of common myths about vaccines being harmful and why they’re wrong. It includes some good arguments to use when you’re faced with anti-vaccination rhetoric.
Click here for a harrowing and heartbreaking look at what whooping cough is REALLY like.
Click here if you’d like to know what it’s like to grow up unvaccinated.
Click here to see an example of how quickly dangerous and vaccine-preventable diseases can spread once the majority of the population is not being vaccinated.
Top Comments
While this is a sad story, whooping cough is not just spread and contracted by those who are not immunised. I am a firm believer in immunisation and both of my children are fully immunised and I would not have it any other way. However, there is a very serious misconception that you are fully protected from contracting and/or passing on this awful sickness if you are immunised.
There is no data to say that any outbreaks are caused by unvaccinated children, there are however tons of them showing that these outbreaks are among vaccinated people, and more than 90% of the time only vaccinated people get the disease. Australia seems to have a huge strangle hold on the truth of vaccines, even more so than in the US which is disgusting enough. I am going to guess it is more to cover up the fact that your government is responsible for the deaths of thousands of your Aborigine people there in the AU. Plus allopathic medicine seems to have a stronghold over all of healthcare even more so than in the US which is also disgusting because they tend to make people more sick or dead rather than heal them. BTW in the US your darling daughter would not have been vaccinated until 2 months with DTaP, so your argument is null to begin with, I would rather say your daughter is lucky to have contracted Pertussis, at least now she will not need the vaccine at all and have lifelong immunity. She also did not die as is the case in nearly all pertussis, measles and mumps illnesses. The vaccines that do not last if they work at all to begin with have far more chance of killing your child than all of those other illnesses combined. Get a clue AU sites like this one are ran by the people making billions of dollars from your child and could care less if that child dies from their vaccines.
Mate, you are a dickhead.
and you are clearly a genius... Cheers!...
So to implement your theory more successfully...we should just give all children doses of deadly diseases and if they die...well they were just weak and unlucky and would have been a detriment to society with their pathetic immune systems anyway.
I think most anti-vaccers don't realise this is how their stupid theory actually comes across.