A friend of mine nearly died last year from Epiglottitis. He had a sore throat one afternoon while at work and thought he was coming down with a cold. Woke up in the middle of the night with his airway nearly completely cut off due to swelling.
The ER docs pumped him full of steroids and antibiotics, while standing next to his bed ready to intubate him...fortunately the drugs worked quickly.
We have also had a few cases of bacterial meningitis around here that have killed in an alarmingly fast manner. A couple of years ago, a college student attended his classes through the afternoon (seeming normal to his classmates)...and died in the emergency room that evening.
It is shocking how fast something deadly can “come on.”
Why anyone would avoid a vaccine that protects against CANCER is beyond me. It’s an answer to a prayer; I keep hoping that they will find similar causes/vaccines for other types of cancers so that we can reduce the incidence of that awful disease.
I know, it makes absolutely no sense to me that people would rather risk their child getting a potentially deadly disease than to give him/her a little shot.
When I was pregnant, one of my friends who had just had a baby went to the local clinic for her post-partum check. She mentioned that the baby would not wake up. The doctor told her to bring in the baby immediately, which she did. Since we were overseas, a medevac flight had to be arranged to take the baby to a hospital. The baby died before the plane arrived to pick her up. She had meningitis, it killed her in hours.
Back then, there was no meningitis vaccine. I was horribly afraid my son would get meningitis.