Ottawa cancer survivor calls out anti-vaxxers after she contracts measles

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An Ottawa cancer survivor is condemning anti-vaxxers after she contracted measles. Despite having the vaccine, she caught it because her immune system was weakened from past cancer operations.

“I'm not somebody who did anything wrong,” she told CTV Ottawa. “I'm an immunocompromised cancer patient [and] this is why we should be vaccinating.”“It's an incurable cancer, so we watch and we wait,” she said. “I have a few tumors at the moment that haven't grown in about a year and a half now.”

“It was surreal to be treated so well,” she said, adding it had been an “amazing” trip of a lifetime. But a week after she’d returned, she started feeling tired, more so than her usual fatigue. “Everyone was really baffled, including myself,” Kelsall said. “I laughed at first and thought that was absurd [because] I'm vaccinated.”Doctors explained her bouts with cancer had compromised her immune system and made her more susceptible to measles.

over vaccines and their safety primarily started after a widely discredited study was published in the medical journal The Lancet in 1997. The misinformation has only gotten worse in the past several years, with more outbreaks of preventable and widely-eradicated contagious diseases across Canada and the United States occurring.

 

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I mean.. if the vaccination is so successful how did she contract it?🧐

And she has every right to. She is the reason we all need to be vaccinated. Herd immunity is what protects those who are vulnerable like her, but it only works if the maximum number of people get vaccinated.

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