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"Melanie's Marvelous Measles" aren't seeming so marvelous anymore.
In 2012, a proactive Australian anti-vaxxer named Stephanie Messenger self-published a childrens book called Melanies Marvelous Measles. With the book, Messenger endeavored to educate children on the benefits of having measles and how you can heal from them naturally and successfully. The books illustrated cover features a girl frolicking in a meadow with her stomach exposed, revealing a number of measles pocks all over her body. The whole thing is truly grotesque so much so, that Amazon has put a disclaimer on the books description, noting that it is provided by the publisher/author of this title and presents the subjective opinions of the publisher/author, which may not be substantiated.
So, the Internet is doing what the Internet does best: trolling the hell out of Messengers deeply flawed book through Amazon comments. Here are some of the best:
Dont overlook the lesser known Dr. Seuss books in this series Horton hears an air raid siren, Oh the places youll itch, How the Grinch caught Chlamydia, And to Think That I Contracted It on Mulberry Street, Skull Fracture Mayzie, Hop on your remaining foot, The 500 days in ICU of Bartholomew Cubbins, and If I Ran the Mortuary. Nathaniel E. Parkinson II
Finally! A childrens book with an agenda I can get behind! I always thought I loved kids until I actually had one of my own and boy was I wrong! I researched anything and everything I could possibly do to get rid of the little brat, but I didnt want to be arrested for murder and childhood cancer is just too darn unpredictable. Fortunately, I stumbled upon Melanies Marvelous Measles, and learned that there is a huge community of people who hate children as much as me! Thanks to Melanie, I was able to ignore my pediatricians recommendations to vaccinate my daughter before our trip to Disney World, all while acting like I want what is best for my child. brittany
What a fantastic book! It really provided hours of joy and comfort my sick little Bobby as he lay in bed with aches and pains and his 104 degree fever, not to mention the rashes, inflamed eyes, running nose, sore throat, constant coughing, andBobbys favoritemouth sores! He really loved reading this book over and over. Such a shame hes dead now like that kid from the Nationwide ad. If theres a downside, it would have to be thisI tried to buy copies for the kid with cancer from Bobbys class that he infected, but the hospital wouldnt take delivery, and then that child passed on before she could ever take delivery. So, really, the reviews should tell you to order early and often, before your children are six feet under. B. Gluckman
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,701 posts)The anti-vaxxers deserve just what they're getting.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)My infant daughter went blind after contracting measles from an unvaccinated child, and yet there's no braille version of this wonderful book for me to give her someday to explain to her how awesome the disease that took her sight away is.
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The best book I have read since "Infant Car Seats Are For Sissies".
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)and some are downright chilling. These two are definitely in the latter class.
God, I hate anti-vaxxers.
Dawgs
(14,755 posts)we can certainly talk about the outbreak, but the question is: why are we so afraid of the measles? people are more likely to die in a car accident than they are to die of the measles, yet we're all still driving our kids around in cars. And no one has died of the measles here in the united states in 10 years, but over 100 people have died from the measles vaccine, according the the CDC. I hope that the sanitary conditions here continue to safeguard us from these unfortunate deaths. Unfortunately people will always be dying from diseases. Even if everyone was vaccinated we still would not be safeguarded against the diseases of the world bc vaccines are not 100% effective and people are not going to stop traveling internationally.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)Steph? Maybe her nickname should be Staph. What an idiot.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)If you enjoyed this book, check out these other fine titles from the same author:
Abby's Absolutely Abundant Abscess
Addie's Adorable Adenoma
Adelia's Addled Alzheimer's
Andys Amazing AIDS
Anne's Incandescent Anorexia
Annette's Astonishing Aneurysm
Annie's Awesome Asthma
Arnie's Artful Addiction
Barack's Baroque Barbiturate Overdose
Barry's Bitchin Beri Beri
Beatrice's Bawdy Bronchitis
Bella's Beloved Bell's Palsy
Bennett's Breathtaking Boil
Bertha's Blossoming Bulimia
Billy's Bodacious Botulism
Bobby's Bitchin Bubonic Plague
Bobby's Bubbling Buboes
Bob's Bodacious Bone Break
Boris's Big Blister
Bradley's Brilliant Bradycardia
Candy's Candid Candida
Carl's Chewy Cancer
Carl's Cool Cauliflower Ear
Carol's Calm Coma
Carol's Colorful Chlamydia
Carol's Copacetic Chlamydia
Carrie's Cavernous Caries
Carrie's Cordial Complications
Christian's Crazy Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
Chuck's Champion Chickenpox
Clarissa's Classy Klippel-Trénaunay Syndrome
Cole Herb's Heavenly Herpes
Colin's Copacetic Common Cold
Connie's Conquering Conjunctivitis
Cyril's Crunchy Celiac
Danielle's Dainty Dahlberg Borer Newcomer Syndrome
Dan's Dandy Dandy-Walker Malformation with Mental Retardation, Macrocephaly, Myopia, and Brachytelephalangy
Daphne's delicate distention
Dave's Darling Deformity
Diana's Diaphanous Diaphragm Disorder
Dolly's Desirable Death
Dominic's Domineering Dementia
Dorothy's Dominating Discharge
Doug's Daring Dengue
Doug's Delightful Dysentery
Edward's Excellent Eczema
Ellen's Elegant Alopecia
Emma's Exalted Emphysema
Ephraim's Ebullient Ebola
Ferdinand's Fabulous Fractured Femur
Flo's Favorite Flu
Freddie's Fantastic Fibromyalgia
Fred's Fabulous Fracture
Freya's Fabulous Fainting
Freya's Far-out Farber's Lipogranulomatosis
Gary's Gallant Gangrene
Gary's Grand Granulomatosis
George's Gorgeous Gonorrhea
Gloria's Golden Goiter
Greg's Glorious Gout
Hank's Hearty Hemophilia
Hannah's Hysterical Hantavirus
Harlan's Harmonious H1N1
Harry's Handsome Halitosis
Harry's Happy Hernia
Harry's Haughty Hemorrhage
Hilary's Heavenly Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism
Hilary's hilarious hydrocelphallic-myocarinoma!
Hillary's Hilarious HIV
Homer's Humdinger Homicidal Ideation
Ida's Inscrutable Idiopathy
Iggy's Infamous Ischemia
Imogene's Inimitable Immunodeficiency
Inga's Incredible Ingrowth
Irene's Incredible Ichthyoallyeinotoxism
Iris's Irrestiable Itch
Isabel's Interesting Infarction
Jane's Genial Genetic Anomalies
Jayoh's Jumpin' Jaundice
Johnny's Jocular Jock Itch
Kyle's Copacetic Keratoacanthoma
Kyle's Crispy Keloids
Larry's Lordly Laryngitis
Larry's Lovely Lymphoma
Leroy's Lavish Leprosy
Lisa's Lovely Lassa Fever
Lucy's Lucious Lupus
Luke's Lucid Leukemia
Luther's Lucky Lupus
Mal's Mad Malaria
Mandie's Mega Mucus
Manuel's Magnificent Meningitis
Margie's Memorable Mononucleosis
Marie's Miraculous Marburg
Melanie's Mellifluous Malaria
Michael's Mighty Migraine
Mike's Magnificent Mumps
Milo's Marvelous Malignant Mass
Molly's Malignant Melanoma
Ned's Neato Nearsightedness
Nestor's Non-Stop Nystagmus
Nudge's Numinous Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Oprah's Opulant Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Orrin's Ornamented Ornithosis
Oscar's Awesome Osteoporosis
Pam's Panaroamic Pathology
Pauline's Prescient Parasites
Paul's Pumpin' Priapism
Percy's Perspicacious Pustule
Perry's Peerless Peritonitis
Perry's Precious Porphyria
Peters Perfect Polio
Polly's Polychromatic Polyuria
Polly's Pretty Polyps
Presley's Precious Presbyopia
Priscilla's Precocious Preeclampsia
Prunella's Practically Preventable Prion
Quentin's Quiescent Quarantine
Randy's Roaring Ringworm
Rhea's Really Remarkable Rheumatism
Rhonda's Racing Rheumatism
Ricky's Rockin' Rickets
Robbie's Rad Ass Rabies
Rocco's Raging Rash
Rosie's Rotating Rosacea
Ruth's Radical Rubella
Sally's Serendipitous Sarcoidosis
Sam's Saintly Schizophrenia
Sam's Smart Smallpox
Samuel's Stupendous Sleep-apnea
Sandra's Superb Sickle Cell
Sandy's Salient Sclerosis
Sandy's sensational syphilis
Sarah's Sentient Sarcoma
Sarah's Serene Sarcosinemia
Sarah's Stunning Salmonella
Scott's Scrumptious Scabies
Sir Sergio's Serene Cirrhosis
Spencer's Splendid Sprain
Stanley's Strapping Strongyloidiasis
Susan's Superlative Supraumbilical Midabdominal Raphe and Facial Cavernous Hemangiomas
Tarzan's Transcendant Transitional Cell Carcinoma
Terence's Terrific Teratoma
Terry's Tempting Tinea
Terry's Trippy Tremor
Timmy's Triumphant Tumors
Tipper's Tilltilating tinnitus
Tommy's Terrific Tapeworm
Tonya's Top-Notch Tonsillitis
Tuco's Torrid Toxoplasmosis
Tyrone's Titillating Typhus
Tyrone's Trippindicular Trichotillomania
Vera's Varicolored Varicella
Veronica's Voluminous Vericose Veins
Vivians Voluminous Vaginitis
Waldo's Whooping Warts
Wally's Wicked-Awesome Wart
Wendy's Wonderful War Wound
Whoopie's Whooping Whooping Cough
Willy's Whimsical Weight Gain
Winnie's Wondrous Wandering Spleen
Xavier's Exemplary Exencephaly
Yolanda's Yummy Yersenia