The Indian Ocean island has Africa’s highest rate of children’s malnutrition, increasing health risk from measles infection
At least 922 children and young adults have died of
measles in
Madagascar since October, despite a huge emergency
vaccination program, the
World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
The number of deaths is based on
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I agree. This is seriously f*cked up.
I mean, I can understand having to adjust to the diagnosis, but I DON'T understand that.
(Full disclosure: I am not a parent and I don't know anyone who is autistic. I do have a sister who is schizophrenic however. She will never be 'normal'. I know I'm going to be responsible for her when my parents are gone. And her life has value. As much as mine. /my 0.02$)
"She tried to tell me about families she knew who had a child or children on the spectrum, and I couldn't possibly know how that felt because my son is "so high-functioning". I called bullshit and told her she didn't have a clue what his childhood had been like for us... and that was it."
Oh my God. That's just... Wow.
Yeah, I can understand cancelling a friendship when someone comes up with something like this. That's just horrible.
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