, individuals with compromised immune systems and their families are upending their daily routines to avoid getting the highly contagious disease. They are staying away from public spaces, placing panicked calls to their doctors, and taking to social media to implore others who can get vaccinated to do so.
Those drugs mean she cannot get live vaccinations like the MMR, because unlike a healthy person whose immune system will respond to a small dose of a disease by creating antibodies against it, her immune system would not. Her doctors say she must wait two years after she is off the immunosuppressants before she can get such vaccines, and they are not ready to take her off the drugs yet.
Horning is not alone. At the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York — the state that has seen the most measles cases so far this year — Dr. Miguel Perales, a medical oncologist and deputy chief of the bone marrow transplant service, said almost every patient of his asks how to protect themselves from measles.
"These are patients who have potentially fatal diseases and we have given them a treatment that can cure them, and there are risks involved. But to have this added risk, which in my mind was avoidable, just makes it worse."
Omg just wash your hands lol, how could you not
Get your bloody vaccinations you thundering clot buckets.
If you choose no vaccinations, please get back in your home, compound, whatever. You are affecting others, which seems to be against the original philosophy.
That deadly measles virus!!!
Get vaccinated bit. Ches