Everything you need to know about protecting yourself against measles – CBC

‘This is not a disease you want to give a very young infant,’ says Dr. Zain Chagla

Mar 04, 2024

Vancouver resident Stefania Seccia has a stern message for parents: Get your children vaccinated against measles.

Seccia went through a major health scare in 2019 when a B.C. Children’s Hospital nurse called to tell her that her nearly one-year-old son Max might have been exposed to measles after a recent hospital visit.

“The nurse was like, ‘Because of when you went, we can’t guarantee that your son was not exposed to measles while you were in the waiting room,'” Seccia said.

Days after receiving the call from the hospital, Seccia learned that the father of the children at the centre of the outbreak at B.C. Children’s Hospital didn’t vaccinate his children before a trip to Southeast Asia because of disproven evidence linking the measles vaccine to autism.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/measles-vaccine-1.7129447