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Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family

posted by martyb on Tuesday April 30 2019, @07:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the have-you-ever-seen-a-single-mump? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Kami Altenberg Schaal has been a professional nurse for 22 years. She is pro-vaccine. She gets the flu shot every year as a requirement for her employment, and she vaccinates her family.

[...] Her entire family has been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, and yet 4 out of 5 members of her family came down with the mumps. Her daughter is a freshman in college, and got the mumps from school.

[...] She isolated her daughter for 5 days ("I know how to isolate a patient, I'm a nurse"), and reported her case to the department of health.

All the members of her family also got booster shots of the MMR vaccine.

17 days after her daughter's exposure, her husband and son woke up with mumps.

After notifying the health department, Kami notified her son's school district as well.

What happened next was apparently something she had not anticipated. Even though her family was fully vaccinated and she followed all the proper medical protocols for dealing with the mumps, many people in her community began to blame her, including some of her medical colleagues, for not vaccinating their children (even though she had!)

[...] Finally, Kami herself woke up with the mumps. She had been tested and was supposedly immune. She had taken the booster. But she ended up getting the mumps anyway.

[...] The department of health nurse was required to send out another letter to the school district, so Kami asked the nurse if she could "put the truth" in the letter to the school district that her son was vaccinated, because she feared being blamed in error, once again, for not vaccinating her children.

The nurse allegedly replied "no."

        They will not put that in a letter, because it could give the anti-vaxx movement some fodder.

        So they would not protect my family by saying we did the right things, so I had to protect my family. I'm the one who has to defend my family.

https://healthimpactnews.com/2019/pro-vaccine-nurse-of-22-years-defends-her-family-after-mumps-outbreak-among-her-fully-vaccinated-family-as-she-was-wrongly-accused-of-not-vaccinating/

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @04:48PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @04:48PM (#836764)

    FUCK BRAIN DEAD NITWIT!

    IF you band all guns, fuck ban all cars FIRST! Thee are more deaths there period. JUSST YOU ARE TOO STUPID to llok at all facts, just the ones make your scraed. GET REAL AND LEARN

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday April 30 2019, @08:52PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday April 30 2019, @08:52PM (#836882)

    Actually, death by auto and death by gun run neck and neck in the US, both just under 40K per year.

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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @12:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @12:10AM (#836974)

      I don't think you should count suicide deaths as against guns. I believe everyone owns their own life and has the right to end it if they choose.
      By that measure, cars are much worse, as while some of the crashes will be deliberate, it will be a lot lower percentage than the 60% of gun deaths.