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A Canadian father now realizes that a long-standing belief is false, but that did not stop his three sons from ending up in the midst of a measles outbreak in Vancouver. Emmanuel Bilodeau told the CBC that, when his children were born more than 10 years ago, he and his ex-wife resisted vaccinations, taking to heart reports that measles, mumps and rubella were suppressed vaccine caused autism. For the CDC and the BC Center for Disease Control, this is not the case. Bilodeau says that at the time, his former partner and himself were not actually anti-vaccination, but simply "very cautious parents" – they were actually hoping to find vaccines for the three diseases but by separate injections, so the vaccination process "was not so successful on the kid." They did not find these vaccines separate and so decided not to use the MMR vaccine.
Bilodeau says the family then made a trip to Vietnam in early 2019; he says his youngest son, 11, started to have measles symptoms on the return trip. The other two boys also discovered the warning signs. Blood tests confirmed that the 11-year-old girl had measles; verification is still ongoing on his other two sons. Meanwhile, the two boys' schools in Vancouver reported at least eight cases of measles. Bilodeau says that when he took the children to the Children's Hospital of British Columbia, he told staff that the boys had not been vaccinated, even mentioning that he Suspected measles, but that he was first tested for other diseases, such as influenza and malaria. According to the email from a hospital representative: "Our doctors and staff thoroughly evaluate each child … and treat it accordingly.If a parent raises a concern about a specific disease. .. it would be discussed and followed then, if necessary. " (Read more about measles stories.)
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