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Hekate

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6. NOW she's hosting free vaccine clinics
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 06:21 AM
Aug 2013


Hopefully modern medical intervention will help the children to avoid complications from measles, such as pneumonia leading to death; ear infections leading to hearing loss; encephalitis leading to convulsions, retardation, &/or deafness.

Among malnourished people it kills as many as 25%; in Africa it's the leading cause of blindness among children. Measles kills almost a million people a year worldwide.

http://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/complications.html

Faith and a Bible don't make you invulnerable to disease, just sometimes invincibly ignorant.

My sibs and I had all the so-called childhood diseases in the 1950s and it was a miserable experience. My baby sister caught everything from my brother and me before she was even two, and it compromised her health for the rest of her childhood.

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