Germany: 1.5-year-old child died of measles. “It’s almost … – Gazeta.pl

In Berlin, since October 2014 appears to be a wave of cases of this disease. For Feb. 23 574 reported cases of this disease. One of the schools in the district of Lichtenberg on Monday was closed for prevention. Doctors are of the opinion that the cause of the current epidemic of measles almost is the fact that fewer and fewer children undergoing the vaccination. In Germany begins even consider the introduction of compulsory vaccination.

“Fear of vaccination is a lack of accountability”

The Federal Minister for Health Hermann Groehe sharply criticized opponents of vaccination. – Completely irrational fear of vaccination is a lack of accountability. Who refuses to protect your child by grafting, exposes the health and lives of not only your child, but also threatens others, and this can lead to severe injury – he said.

Not depletion is a popular misconception, the sources you need to look in 1998. It was then that one of the British researchers claimed that the commonly used combination measles, mumps and rubella can cause autism.

Although the researchers then withdrew from research on the topic, but rumor is circulating, and some still stuck mistaken belief. This is particularly harmful, because measles can be very serious.

measles infection can be fatal

Measles is a highly contagious disease and can cause irreversible damage to the body, and even death, when the virus will slowly attack the nervous system. According to statistical data of RKI two thousand patients die as a result of measles virus infection.

These germs can cause severe pneumonia or severe meningitis, which in turn can lead to permanent brain damage. Measles spread the simplest ways: by coughing, sneezing, administration hands. Can even be dangerous conversation with an infected person.

The incubation period of the disease is two weeks before the first symptoms appear: fever, cough and runny nose, while the characteristic measles rash – three to seven days later.

This article is excerpted from the site ” Deutsche Welle ”

Germany: 1.5-year-old child died of measles. "It's almost … – Gazeta.pl