Mom's Facebook Fury Against Anti-Vaxxers Goes Viral

Measles hung over her head, and Jennifer Hibben-White as well as her newborn son Griffin might have been exposed to it. So she could not be quiet. She exploded, "angry as hell" on Facebook.

Health officials confirmed the first case of measles in York Region, according to ctvnews.com.

The mom from Toronto logged into the social media website, and then her story quickly went viral on Thursday night. There are 275,000 shares of her post, according to cbsnews.com.

She wrote: "This is my son Griffin, and he may have measles. On February 9th, I received a phone call from York Region Public Health, informing me that Griffin, alongside my mother and I, was potentially exposed to the measles virus while attending a newborn weigh-in appointment at my doctor's office in Markham on January 27th."

Just 15 days old, the baby was especially vulnerable as he was too small to be vaccinated. He would be getting his first shot of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) at the age of 12 to 15 months.

Till then, it seems to be the battle of the herd immunity, with the rest of the population getting vaccination shots in order to get themselves protected from measles.

Measles began in Disneyland, and spread fast to people who had still not got vaccinated, which made things risky for most others. Hibben-White continues:

"And I'm angry. Angry as hell.

I won't get angry at or blame the person in the waiting room. I would have likely done the same thing...you get sick, you go to the doctor. I have no idea what their story is and I will never know. But I do know one thing:

If you have chosen to not vaccinate yourself or your child, I blame you.

I blame you.

You have stood on the shoulders of our collective protection for too long. From that high height, we have given you the PRIVILEGE of our protection, for free. And in return, you gave me this week. A week from hell. Wherein I don't know if my BABY will develop something that has DEATH as a potential outcome."

The worry that Griffin might be exposed to risk struck Hibben-White especially hard because she had lost her five-year-old daughter, Olivia, who had died in her sleep of a blood infection three years ago.

Jennifer mentioned her loss, and went on with her diatribe against the anti-vaxxers:

"You think you are protecting your children from thimerosal? You aren't. It's not in their vaccine.

You think you are protecting them from autism? You aren't. There is no, none, nada, nothing in science that proves this. If you want to use google instead of science to "prove me wrong" then I am happy to call you an imbecile as well as misinformed.

You think you are protecting them through extracts and homeopathy and positive thoughts and Laws of Attraction and dancing by candlelight on a full moon? You aren't. I PROTECT YOUR CHILD. We protect your child. By being concerned world citizens who care about ourselves, our fellow man, and our most vulnerable. So we vaccinate ourselves and our children.

You think you are protecting them by letting them eat their shovel full of dirt and reducing antibiotics and eating organic? You aren't. As an unvaccinated person you are only protected by our good graces. WE LET YOU BE SO PRIVILEGED thanks to our willingness to vaccinate ourselves and our children.

You know what vaccines protect your children from? Pain. Suffering. Irreparable harm. Death.

And you would be the first to line up if you had an inkling of what the death of a child feels like. You would be crawling through the streets on your hands and knees, begging, BEGGING to get that vaccine into your precious babies because that is what I would have done, if I could, to save my daughter.

The fact is, there was no vaccine for her. Not for her illness. And she died. She died at age five and a half, and she is gone."

Till now, at least seven cases of measles have been reported in Toronto. Measles is the reason there is a high fever and a red rash that is prominent. One in 20 patients could get pneumonia and fewer can suffer encephalitis, that leads to brain damage, deafness or even death.

Hibben-White was asked to isolate Griffin home at home for 21 days to see whether he developed measles or not. After five nerve-wracking days, she will be clear about his illness.