On June 2, 2017 a botched vaccine campaign for measles killed 15 children in the South Sudan.

I ask you, did you read about this tragedy or see on the mainstream news? To make matters worse the blame for this tragedy was shifted to the children that were placed in the position of administrating the vaccines.

Untrained people, in fact children, were administering the vaccine. The measles vaccine needs to be diluted. One has to take a liquid and mix it with the dry form, and that's where the error occurred. The [WHO and UNICEF] report says they used the same syringe to reconstitute the vaccine [instead of discarding it after single use]. If that vaccine vial gets contaminated with a toxin or bacteria, then gets injected into a child, that's what causes disease and death.

The vaccines were supplied by UNICEF, the UN agency which provides humanitarian assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. It is absolutely insane that this agency did not take the necessary steps to insure the safe administration of their vaccines.

Even though this year only one person in the South Sudan has died from the measles and 665 people had been infected with the measles. The campaign to vaccinate was pushed forward so fast that untrained personnel and children were given the task of inoculating their families and friends. One can only imagine their guilt and remorse over possibility that they had administered the vaccine to a family member or friend that then died as a result of their actions.

According to Global Research the measles vaccine kills more people than the measles.

Of course the grieving mothers in the South Sudan were not told that. They were probably intimidated and told their child would die if they were not vaccinated.

When a child dies, whether through illness or suddenly, parents can have an extreme sense of failure. That can be especially true when considering vaccines. A parent second guesses their decision to allow their child to be placed in harms way. The feelings of failure along with vastness of loss can be horrendous.

The emotional damage that has been done to the people of the South Sudan is beyond comprehension. Yet there was no mention of counselors and relief workers that were sent for grief counseling. After all it was just a few children who lived in a Third World country.

As someone who now knows that there are real dangers associated with vaccines, I was completely taken aback when I found out that 15 children died (and who knows that was just the reported number) I was sickened and felt an overwhelming sense of loss for their mothers and families. As a parent myself I cannot imagine the pain and anguish of the mothers of the children who died.

I had the measles as a child and came through totally unscathed. And while I am sure that there are some who use the excuse of living conditions can spread disease. My response to them is, if you are in the philanthropy business put your influence and money to better use instead of funding vaccine programs.

Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory provides the important steps in assisting Third World countries towards better health.

But as we all know there is not as much money that can be made by the pharmaceutical industry if they follow the common sense teachings of the Nursing Legend, Florence Nightingale.

Additional Sources:
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/02/531268150/a-botched-vaccine-campaign-for-measles-killed-15-children-in-south-sudan
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/botched-vaccination-kills-15-children-south-sudan-170602132556122.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/measles-vaccines-kill-more-people-than-measles-cdc-data-proves/5429736
http://www.opentohope.com/death-of-child-affects-relationships-throughout-family/
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