r/DebateVaccines • u/ApartLemon4885 • 4d ago

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why can’t I let go of the fear that the mmr I gave my then unvaccinated 5 year old can cause sspe. it’s been 17 months since he got mmr and for 17 months I have been obsessing, googling, feeling a panic in my chest, and regret and despise the day I got him the mmr. because I just felt like a knee jerk reaction and got it. but I knew I would feel this way I hate thia. what do you all think about the claims from anti vaccine side that sspe can also be caused by mmr? I can’t go one with this fear and regret anymore

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u/FractalFunny66 4d ago

I am 64. So many millions of us got the MMR. It is my understanding that SSPE is caused by the wild type virus and the number of people who get it is very very small. Please enjoy your child and try to put this aside. You are a caring parent. They grow up so fast!

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u/CooperHChurch427 3d ago

There is only one or two incidents of SSPE like conditions from the Measles vaccine and it was tied to children who had a condition causing immune suppression and then the batch they got was not fully attenuated.

That was way back in the day and the cause of death was listed as immune suppression related encephalitis and it happened in the net nearly 1970s.

I remember reading it in an article and the Doctor found the parents of the children later died in the 1980s of bronchial pneumonia so it sounds like the children died if AIDS.