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If your local bookstore doesn't have an "anti-vax woo" section, there's always Amazon...
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health-fitness/measles-can-be-fatal-so-why-would-you-tell-kids-it-will-make-them-stronger/story-fneuz9ev-1226549028390
Melanie's Marvelous Measles is an anti-vaccination book aimed at children. It claims despite evidence that measles can kill and cause brain damage that it's a "good thing" to have.
The Australian Medical Association said the suggestion was wrong and misleading and that publishers "should be ashamed of themselves".
On the cover of the book Melanie' is happily playing in the garden and showing off a rash on her belly. In the story, she is home with measles and her friend Tina is worried but her mother reassures her.
Butterbean
(1,014 posts)Holy eff.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I'm good, but I'm not THAT good.
Warpy
(111,359 posts)Damn! Talk about your basic confederacy of dunces!
Thank goodness this isn't a particularly crunchy granola part of the country any more. People get their kids vaccinated around here.
I say that because measles almost killed me when I was six. There was nothing marvelous about them and it took me years to recover.
I also don't develop positive antibody titers to the vaccine or have them from the disease, so every one of those unvaccinated kids is a loaded gun pointing right at me.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)so she had to come here.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)But, this is extreme and it is stupid. We can't cure everything with a bowl of oatmeal and fresh fruits and vegetables. Some things we have to leave to science and doctors.
Iris
(15,670 posts)with her "University of Google" education.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)the author is in Australia, and if autism is mentioned as a consequence of the Evil Shot, that was uncharacteristically downplayed in the article.
kiva
(4,373 posts)"from the author of "See Dick Run With Scissors" Look for the next book in this series. This one is for teens: "Gabby's Glorious Gonorrhea"