Photo: YouTube / GoldCoastHealth
"I wish I had vaccinated me!"
It would have been just a little prick, but Cormit Avital thought himself invulnerable. "I've traveled all over the world and almost never got sick, but now I sincerely wish I had been vaccinated, because the past few weeks have been a nightmare."
The young mother had refused a vaccination against whooping cough and infected her newborn baby Eva with it . "It was just a bit of a cough for me, it was unpleasant, but not very tragic, but for Eva it's the horror, we've been in the hospital for three weeks now, all the while she's coughing and catching her breath, she's turning blue, then red again, sometimes even black, and I can not do anything, except to push her mask on her little face over and over again. "
"It's so hard to see this little creature that you love as much as it hurts so much, I wish so much I did not refuse the vaccine, " says Cormit Avital in the video that the Australian health organization Gold Coast Health has posted on YouTube. It is intended to warn other parents against treating supposed childhood diseases as harmless.
In Germany, there is a bitter discussion between vaccination advocates and vaccine opponents. Even the vaccine opponents have good arguments, but the many reports of babies and toddlers who suffer from and often even die from preventable childhood diseases such as whooping cough, make it clear that vaccinations are done for good reasons and a decision for or against vaccination a lot of deliberation should be taken.
Incidentally, pregnant women can be vaccinated against whooping cough even during pregnancy. The anti-bodies are then transferred to the baby via the placenta. As a result, newborn babies are protected from infection for about six months immediately after birth, explains a spokeswoman for Gold Coast Health.
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Vaccination opponents beware: The suffering of this girl with whooping cough could have been prevented
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More information about vaccinations in pregnancy.
