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Flipboard Science Desk
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@ScienceDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

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.

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The Independent

Mom whose 7-year-old has brain swelling from measles still wouldn’t vaccinate

EXCLUSIVE: South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell Rhian Lubin of their devastation after their unvaccinated 7-year-old son, Ethan, developed encephalitis, a complication from the virus that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain
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Jesse Cail
Jesse Cail
@jesse_cail@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp last week

@ScienceDesk @Independent The full article is worse than the headline. Geez. In a functioning society, these parents would be criminally charged with reckless endangerment of a minor or something of the sort.

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