Love Thy Neighbor: Vaccinate (All Together Podcast)

Welcome to this week’s ALL TOGETHER, the podcast dedicated to exploring how ethics, religion and spiritual practice is informing our personal lives, our communities and our world. ALL TOGETHER is hosted by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, the executive editor of HuffPost Religion and the host of All Together. You can download All Together on iTunes, or Stitcher. “In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her.” Those words were written by Roald Dahl, who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. As Matthew Herper reported at Forbes.com, Dahl wrote those words about his own daughter who died at the age of 7 in 1962. Dahl was hoping to influence those in the UK to follow America’s example of compulsory immunization that had resulted in measles being virtually wiped out Until recently. In early January, health officials began to trace an outbreak of measles to people who had visited Disneyland. Many of those infected turned out never to have been vaccinated against the disease, which raised the puzzling, and frankly, enraging question of why this is happening when measles had essentially been eradicated in America. The answer is that a rising number of parents choosing to not have their children vaccinated, despite the risks that poses, not only to their own children, but to others around ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news