The wife of the director of communications of the White House opposes vaccines: "Bring back our diseases of childhood"

On Wednesday, the wife of White House communications director Bill Shine sent a tweet in which she criticized CNN for mentioning a measles outbreak:

Here we are LOL #measlesoutbreak on #CNN #Fake #Hysteria. The entire population of the baby boomers living today had the #Measles as children. Bring back our diseases # Childhood, they keep you healthy and fight cancer.

While Darla Shine's tweet contains 462 "likes" and 154 retweets at the time of publication, there are over 5,400 comments below, many of which are negative:

My friend's daughter is deaf because of measles. Infantile diseases contracted during pregnancy cause serious congenital malformations. Does this avoidable loss of awareness reflect the position of the WH @PressSec press office?

I agree Darla !!! When my kids were babies, I gave them #scarletfever just to make them stronger! Whoever has survived is now in human resources !!!!

Keywords "alive today" Because those who were not alive today have died of measles at the age of 6 years.

Here is some useful information on @CDCgov.

In my time, we had polio and we loved it.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), before the development of measles vaccine in 1963, about 2.6 million people would die of the virus each year. In 2017 alone, about "110,000 people died of measles" in the world.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): "According to modeling, in children born between 1994 and 2013, vaccination will prevent about 322 million diseases, 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths in their lifetime, net savings of $ 295 billion in direct costs and $ 1.38 trillion in total social costs. "

Another theory promoted by Shine is that conservatives in vaccines might be linked to autism. However, all available evidence suggests that there is no link between the two.

While thimerosal, a preservative containing ethylmercury, was present in many vaccines, the Immunization Safety Review Committee noted in 2004 that epidemiological evidence supports the rejection of a causal relationship. effect between vaccines containing thimerosal and autism. "

According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ethylmercury should not be confused with methylmercury, which "is the type of mercury present in certain types of fish" and can be toxic in high doses.

A 2015 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and covering data from "95,727 children of older siblings" revealed that "the receipt of the MMR vaccine was not associated at an increased risk of ASD [Autism Spectrum Disorder]it does not matter if the older siblings had an ASD. "

Perhaps most importantly, the FDA notes that "routinely recommended vaccines to children 6 years old and younger in the US are available in formulations that do not contain thimerosal."

This is not the first time Darla Shine's opinions have been controversial. CNN has documented several dubious quotes from Shine's past.

In 2008, she condemned the use of sunscreen stating, "I really do not believe in any hoax of sunscreen."

In 2009, she suggested that a "flu pandemic" could be an installation of a pharmaceutical company.

Also in 2009, she suggested that women in the military should not be surprised by sexual harassment by saying, "You know that there was just a story with these girls, these women who are dissatisfied with the fact that they are sexually harassed in the military.I think it's going to happen when you go on a submarine for 12 months with 4,000 excited soldiers? I hate to say that, but that's Is true. "