re: 2 confirmed cases of Measles in New Orleans area

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There's something you all are overlooking: the damage done to a fetus if its Mother catches Rubella during her pregnancy.

A family friend had four children and then her husband died serving our country. She contracted Rubella during her third pregnancy and only after the child was born did the family realize the damage that had happened. Severe retardation both physical and mental. Not the loving child some get along with retardation, but mean and physical.

The other three children had a hellish family life although cousins tried to help.

This happened to an educated, well behaved familyand everybody back then tried to make sure their children got measles when it "was going around."

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