The mother of a South Carolinian seven-year-old hospitalized since January with encephalitis (brain swelling) caused by measles says that she would not have vaccinated him, even if she had known this could be the outcome. "God has chosen Ethan for a reason," 35-year-old Kristina told @Independent.“With my own eyes, I have seen the damage [vaccination] does to kids who are perfectly normal, and then once they get it, they're not the same anymore,” she claimed.