As Covid-19 vaccines are being developed, this mom has an important message for anti-vaxxers.
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00:00We couldn't believe that she had caught something that's it's almost like an old-fashioned disease.
00:07Other children are going to get sick from measles because we're not vaccinating our children.
00:23They thought she had tonsillitis and then
00:26she seemed to deteriorate quite rapidly and start off with a rash
00:33and then we ended up back in A&E and that was when they
00:39said that yeah she would think that she has got measles.
00:43Alba wasn't old enough for a vaccination.
00:45So
00:47It was a discussion about how measles isn't really a thing anymore.
01:17It was almost completely eradicated.
01:20So when we knew that Alba was through the worst of it and she was on the road to recovery,
01:25we decided to post images of this, just to sort of say this is how important it is.
01:40I didn't expect that it would go viral, I didn't expect it to reach across the water.
01:47We've had messages from people all over the world.
01:51In a way it's been great because it's just getting the word out there that this is what
01:56can happen and how important the MMR vaccination is.
02:01A lot of people messaged to say I was on the fence about this and now I'm actually going
02:06to go and book my children in, which is the ideal outcome.
02:14And I only really doubted it when the anti-vaxxers got a hold of it, because they were personally
02:23attacking me as a mother and Alba as my child, they think that it's fake news.
02:30They thought that the images of Alba were fake, they thought that she was a doll, that
02:33I was being paid to do this, that my husband was from a pharmaceutical company, all sorts
02:41of made up rubbish about it.
02:44So there's a lot of controversy between the MMR and autism link.
02:48Dr Wakefield has been struck off from the medical register now because that link has
02:56been completely squashed.
03:45It's about protecting our children and the vulnerable children who cannot be vaccinated
03:49because they're sick or they have their immune compromised.
03:56I really just wanted to make a point about the mother's immunity.
04:02I had the vaccination, I had measles, I breastfed Alba and yet she still got sick.
04:07I'm not going to high five everyone who goes to have a vaccination but I think it's a sensible
04:11thing to do.