United States: The US that opposes vaccinations faces a worldwide infectious disease epidemic that has already taken two child lives through measles outbreaks.
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According to Seminole Texas residents, their stance about vaccines remains strong as they view pharmaceutical products as dangerous money-making schemes.
Seminole suffers from an increasing measles contamination that has already killed two children, including eight-year-old Daisy Hildebrand, despite its residents continuing to reject vaccinations.
Peter Hildebrand expresses firm belief that his daughter Daisy never succumbed to the disease that killed her.
“She did not die of the measles. If there’s one thing you should know, it’s that. She was failed,” Hildebrand stated, as per mirror.co.uk reports.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially identified measles as the cause of death for Daisy.
“The [MMR] vaccine ain’t worth a damn. My brother’s family got it, and they all still got sick — worse than my unvaccinated kids. This isn’t about the vaccine,” the dad noted.
MailOnline reports that Hildebrand suspects Daisy passed away from medical care errors, which included improper treatment and community bias toward their Mennonite practice of rejecting conventional medicine for ‘natural remedies.’
A month prior to her illness, Daisy suffered from fever manifestations and throat pain, which subsequently led to pneumonia.
The family used cod liver oil as their home remedy before Daisy received hospital treatment, which produced the medical diagnosis of strep throat and mononucleosis along with measles.
The healthcare providers released Daisy home after giving antibiotics, but she quickly became worse three days later, as mirror.co.uk reports.
The hospital sent her back in a critical condition with pneumonia after her second visit because she succumbed to her illness.
Daisy became the second casualty of measles, which followed the death of Kayley Fehr, who was also unvaccinated and belonged to the same Mennonite community.
The residents of Seminole continue to resist vaccination for their children following such tragic circumstances.