{"id":3728,"date":"2025-05-10T23:02:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T23:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/what-it-is-like-to-have-measles-rubella-polio-pertussis-first-person-patient-stories\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T23:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T23:02:49","slug":"what-it-is-like-to-have-measles-rubella-polio-pertussis-first-person-patient-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/what-it-is-like-to-have-measles-rubella-polio-pertussis-first-person-patient-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: What it\u2019s like to have measles, mumps, whooping cough, and other vaccine-preventable illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion: What it\u2019s like to have measles, mumps, whooping cough, and other vaccine-preventable illnesses
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When I was recently at the vet\u2019s office, I started eavesdropping a little on the conversation between two older women. When they started talking about the measles outbreak in Texas<\/a>, I couldn\u2019t help it. I joined in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the women, who wore thick glasses, shared that she had lost much of her sight to a bout with measles as a child. She just couldn\u2019t understand why so many parents today are reluctant to vaccinate. If they had experienced measles themselves or watched someone else go through it, she said, they would be looking forward to getting their children immunized instead of downplaying the disease.<\/p>\n

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Opinion: What it\u2019s like to have measles, mumps, whooping cough, and other vaccine-preventable illnesses When I was recently at the vet\u2019s office, I started eavesdropping a little on the conversation between two older women. When they started talking about the measles outbreak in Texas, I couldn\u2019t help it. I joined in.\u00a0 One of the women, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143,1428,2179,2313,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-opinion","category-health","category-infectious-disease","category-patients","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}