This story was shared today by the DeKalb County (IL) Health Department.
To read the entire, much longer article with photos go to CNN: (“Anti-vaxers’ adult son gets measles; now, he has this message for the world“)
“[Joshua] Nerius remembers the scariest part of his bout with measles.
“He contracted the disease in May 2016, at his sister’s graduation from that Northern Illinois University College of Business. The Illinois Department of Health later determined that a guest who had traveled to the graduation from outside the United States had the measles, which is highly contagious.
“‘I didn’t interact with anyone at that graduation besides my own family, so it was literally just me walking by someone,’ he said.
“He says the scariest part is that the day after his sister’s graduation, before he knew that he’d been infected, he attended a technology convention in Las Vegas with thousands of other people.
“‘I was shaking hands with hundreds of people a day. I wasn’t contagious yet, but it’s sobering to think if the timing had been just slightly different, how many people I could have infected,’ he said.
“Nerius doesn’t blame his parents for not vaccinating him. He says they were believers in alternative medicine, and in the 1980s, there was no Internet where they could double-check what they were being told by anti-vaxers.
“‘But today’s parents have no excuse,’ he says. ‘They can go to the American Academy of Pediatrics or a multitude of other sites to learn that vaccines are safe and keep children healthy.’
“‘The science on this has been settled. It’s been solved. When I look at where we are today, with people who are willfully deciding to ignore the facts, it really frustrates me,’ Nerius said. ‘I just don’t understand the mindset of people who want to spread fear.'”
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“Alternative medicine”= the parents are morons and believe in magic
“how many people I could have infected”…. well, IF they had been vaccinated, that number would be ZERO… why is this so hard to understand?
“Nerius became so weak that at one point, he couldn’t walk without assistance. He lost 25 pounds. It took months to fully recover.”
Getting “childhood diseases” as an adult seems to make them much more severe
Fyi yes this is a new article by CNN, he got measles in 2016 and now (today’s article) the guy is talking about what he went through
Its all part of the.recent effort to manufacture national panic and fear of people who are not vaccinated. We will be fine. The sky is not falling. Everything will be alright.
Let’s hope to God that polio doesn’t make a comeback, too. My grandfather was crippled by that disease, but our generation has been spared from it
Not vaccinating your kids should be punishable by catapult
“People getting sick from preventable diseases is just a plot to make you afraid of getting sick from preventable diseases!”
If everyone would just vaccinate their dang kids, this wouldn’t even be on the radar!
KJ Clevngr one of our relatives has never vaccinated her daughter
Judy Anderson who? That’s just dumb!
Old news to add to the hysteria.
This is from May 2016
The article was just posted by CNN on March 7, 2019
Cnn? ? ? ?
And shared by the DeKalb County Health Department today
Frank Furter yes the event when he got the measles was 2016 but hes talking about now about what he went through
DeKalb County Online I meant when the boy contracted the measles was 2016, hes now talking to CNN what happened 3 years ago
Hmmmm would vaccination of helped this?????
old news May of 2016
haha I didnât see that
Dawn Tha ks
he got sick in 2016 but is now speaking out about it to the national news.
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How do they know he contracted it at the graduation in 2016 of the Vegas convention the next day? Either way, simply getting vaccinated would have prevented that issue. Damn hippy âalternative medicineâ parents.