A one-year-old baby from Jerusalem who had not been vaccinated has tragically passed away after contracting measles, Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed Monday night.
This marks the seventh fatality since the current measles outbreak began in May — all of the victims were under two and a half years old.
According to the Health Ministry, 19 patients are currently hospitalized with the disease, the majority of them children under age six who were not vaccinated. Four of the hospitalized children are listed in serious condition and are being treated in intensive care units.
The ministry says the outbreak remains concentrated in several major cities with large frum populations, including Yerushalayim, Beit Shemesh, Bnei Brak, Harish, Modi’in Illit, Nof HaGalil, Kiryat Gat, Ashdod, and Tzefas.
Health officials are urging anyone who is unvaccinated — as well as parents of infants between six and eleven months who have received only one dose — to avoid large gatherings in affected cities due to the heightened risk of infection.
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I wonder if people who believe that vaccines can cause autism or other incurable diseases (they don’t, but let’s say you believe they do) might consider getting vaccines this time. Suppose you believe that 1/10000 kids who get a vaccine will become autistic, so you might believe that since measles has been eradicated then why take even that risk. But when there are active measles outbreaks and the risks of complications and deaths of those are so much higher, so maybe then even those who avoid vaccines in general can justify to themselves the importance of getting vaccines now. Not so many people want their children to become deathly ill, especially from a completely preventable disease. Maybe some people with skin in the game can comment.