A child under five years old has died of measles in Ontario, according to the province’s public health agency, the first such death in more than a decade.
In a report published Thursday, Public Health Ontario said the child was not vaccinated against the highly infectious respiratory virus. It did not indicate when or where the child died, or their age.
The report shows there were no other measles-related deaths recorded in the province between Jan. 1, 2013 and this week.
Measles has been on the rise in both Ontario and elsewhere in Canada as cases increase globally, particularly in Europe, which has seen tens of thousands of infections over the last year.
The parents should be charged with manslaughter if the child was old enough to receive the vaccine.
11 years without a death in Ontario. Now these fuckwits who think they know as much as a doctor who studied this shit are going to get more people killed.
I don’t think their unvaccinated status should play into whether charges are laid. I would argue if, as soon as symptoms appeared, the parents sought appropriate medical care, that’s not manslaughter. On the other hand, if the parents delayed care, that’s similar to other child-neglect/manslaughter cases we’ve seen, and they could be charged for their actions.
I don’t like that we have anti-vax people in our society, but I support their right to choose. Their choices do come with some consequences (limits to job prospects, places they can go, etc.) but if we say not vaccinating your child alone is enough to trigger charges, that’s very close to saying that choice is illegal.
but I support their right to choose
I don’t. I also don’t support people’s right to choose to fire guns at my house, piss on my windows, or any number of other things. We live in a society. There are rules
We live in a society. There are rules
Indeed, but by the rules we have state this isn’t manslaughter, right?
