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“In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her.”
Those words were written by Roald Dahl, who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. As Matthew Herper reported at Forbes.com, Dahl wrote those words about his own daughter who died at the age of 7 in 1962.
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Jesus commands to love our neighbor as ourselves. This gets to the heart of the vaccination issue. It’s not just about loving your own family. It is also about caring for the well-being of your neighbors and your community. Everyone should vaccinate their children as an act of love.
