Paediatric Doctor Slams Anti-Vaxxers In Video

A paediatric doctor has shared a video giving her blunt and honest thoughts about anti-vaxxers.

Paediatric doctor Nelu Simonsz, from Melbourne, posted the video to Vimeo to share her opinion about anti-vaxxers, calling these parents the single most frustrating part of her job. “Every day in my work as a paediatric doctor there is one thing that really, really pisses me off. It’s parents who don’t immunise,” she says, adding that her dog is more protected in a kennel than her child is at school.

“Whooping cough, the measles, rubella. They’re starting to come back and unfortunately these are the sort of things that kill children and it’s because of people who don’t vaccinate. I really don’t understand why we’re not getting the message out there,” she said.

Dr Nelu said she has heard many excuses from parents about why they don’t vaccinate their children including that “there are lots of chemicals” in vaccines, and that some claim immunisation causes autism. She says “this makes no sense.”

“Isn’t that the same as every single other medication? Painkillers, the pill? Blood pressure medication is proven to save thousands of lives, why are vaccines any different.

“They are made with chemicals yes, they are also made with things that we know have saved lives. Millions and millions of lives around the world,” she said.

A paper published in 1998 suggesting a link between vaccines and the appearance of autism has been discredited, with no evidence backing it up. “Very quickly it was taken down because it was found to be false. Unfortunately, the damage has been done and word has spread that there’s a link between autism and immunisations. I’m here to tell you, yet again, that this is not true. The whole autism-immunisation link, it’s false,” she said.

Dr Nelu said that choosing not to immunise affects everyone and that all must come together to speak louder than the anti-vaxxers. “You choose to not immunise your child, the second they step out into the public they are then putting other children at risk…If we can all bind together and work together for the greater common good than we can see some these common diseases wiped out,” she said.

Source: Kidspot.com.au