'It makes me so angry. My parents thought they were doing the right thing. They were persuaded by the anti-vaxers.' This anti-vaxers' adult son recently experienced measles. Now he has this message for the world.
Three years ago, Joshua Nerius, a 30-year-old software product manager in Chicago, developed a high fever and a rash. Doctors prescribed antibiotics, but Nerius just got sicker and sicker.
Joshua went to the emergency room, where a doctor said it looked a lot like the measles. Had he been vaccinated as a child? Nerius texted the question to his mother. She sent back a thumbs-down emoji. His next stop was an isolation room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Nerius became so weak that at one point, he couldn't walk without assistance. He lost 25 pounds. It took months to fully recover. Read More"I felt horrible," he said."It took a serious toll.
"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.
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