A new federal report details the frightening, exhausting, and extremely expensive experience of one family whose child contracted a vaccine-preventable disease.
A 6-year-old boy who never got his childhood vaccinations spent nearly two months in a hospital and nearly died after contracting tetanus from a cut on his forehead, racking up more than $800,000 in medical expenses.details the exhausting and expensive fight the family had with a highly-preventable disease.
The boy's parents called for help and an emergency helicopter took him to a pediatric medical center. He craved water, but couldn’t drink it because he couldn’t open his mouth. Still barely able to breathe, physicians had to stick a tube down his windpipe. Still, according to the CDC, they boy continued to get worse. Five days later, doctors cut a hole in his neck and inserted a tube to help him breathe.
But even after the near-death experience, the family declined the second dose of the vaccine needed to be immunized against tetanus and other recommended immunizations, the CDC reported.the boy's infection was"a tragic event that [was] completely preventable." But the parents' decision to not give him a second dose of the vaccine was a"second tragedy."A nurse administers a measles vaccine to a teenager on Feb. 21, 2019.
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