The measles again hails, in Croatia three cases: ‘In parents to vaccinate, there is a resistance culture’

– Today, parents are not only resisted by vaccination, but everything, the ‘resistance culture’ has prevailed: vaccination, the ratings their children get, everything. There is a lot of rights, and too little obligation – says the retired pediatrician from Zagreb, through which thousands and thousands of children have passed.

With experts of different profiles, we recalled a time in which parents did not mind doubting the vaccine and refusing it, so the disabilities was higher than 95 percent, necessary for collective immunity and suppression of infection.

Eight -year -old Daisy Hidebrand had passed away in the measles epidemic in the Western Texas, and her father also announced that he would not vaccinate his other children. The number of cases of measles in Europe has doubled in 2024 and has been the highest in the last 25 years. Hans Kluge, a regional director of the World Health Organization for Europe, said the measles have returned, a call to alert has been informed because it is one of the most demonstrative viruses for humans. The measles significantly weaken immunity and open the door to secondary infections, most often inflamed lungs, which can be deadly, especially for children under five years of age.

The CIJZ warns that something must be done quickly to increase the disposal of children. In the Dubrovnik-Neretva and Split-Dalmatia counties, only 80 percent of children received the primary vaccine, the disabilities of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar and Osijek-Baranja County drop in the County of Osijek. Parents are largely denied by the first vaccine against measles, rubella and mumps and the combination of the vaccine 5U1.

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-When I started working, in the ’70s, and then the’ 80s and ’90s, the well-being of vaccination was generally accepted and no one ever questioned him. I always had a very high elicit in the office. There was no problem even later, when a new, combined vaccine started, there was never a refusal. Problems came with the Internet and the spread of disinformation – a retired pediatrician tells us with the condition of anonymity.

In those times, the Sarajevo doctor Emeritus, prof. Dr. Zehra Dizdarevic, a world -renowned pulmonist who remembers the epidemics of cholera and typhoid, even patients with tetanus, and especially remembers the great goddess in Yugoslavia. At the age of 83 he still works. The former head of the Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis of the Podhrastovi and a member of the main Yugoslav commission for infectious diseases. She traveled the world as a doctor, helping in different epidemics, after an earthquake and flood.

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– In the besieged Sarajevo Our children’s disabilities were 96 percent, we went to vaccinate children around the clock. No parent rejected us during the war. It was terribly important to avoid, among other things, a tuberculosis -based meningitis – says Prof. Dr. Dizdarevic.

She also remembered the time she was a child.

– Family doctors went to home to vaccinate children, and these were so important moments that the houses were particularly cleaned for the day. The four children were calm waiting in line to vaccinate us. I also remember a neighbor who had a lot of children, but not the time for them, she paid a great punishment because she did not vaccinate the children on time, and she did not happen to her more. And no one was erupting because of the sentence – the doctor recalls.

It was vaccinated throughout the schools of Yugoslavia, during teaching, so the disabilities always exceeded 95 percent.

– People believed sciences and doctors. I was a medical student when in Doboj after a great flood in 1965. In schools, people were vaccinated against typhoid. There was no school where the windows remained whole. People broke the windows to get over the row to vaccinate, in fear of the vaccine not disappearing, and there was enough for everyone. When the great goddesses appeared in 1972, Yugoslavia split 18 million people in a few weeks – the doctor remembers.

People who wait in ranks at the checkpoints are a picture that they will never forget, is remembered by Dr. Dizdarevic. When the goddesses were discovered, she remembers, for seven days she couldn’t home to her children, there was so much work to do.

– And then, in a new age, someone who claims that the vaccines cause autism and everything goes downhill. People smart without any knowledge, it’s terribly dangerous – Professor Emeritus Dizdarevic is outraged.

– Vaccination not only protects against acute infectious diseases, but also from malignant, such as HPV vaccine, hepatitis B vaccines, today, however, people on the Internet are available to people and are critical except for their (un) knowledge – warns the president of the Croatian epidemiological society, cf. Miroslav Venus.

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Vaccination, he recalls, no one has questioned before.

– Relationship to vaccination I put in a broader context, the context of relations towards prevention in general. We die most of chronic non -proportional diseases, for which the existence of risky factors that can be prevented: smoking, alcohol, too little movement, sugar, unhealthy diet in general. Vaccination has also been proven that vaccination is one of the most significant preventive measures, but it obviously does not mean anything to people – adds Prim. Venus.

When parents refuse to vaccinate their child, the pediatrician reports it epidemiologists, and epidemiologists then invite their parents to an information conversation.

– We try to explain to them that they are wrong and be open to all additional explanations. We rarely manage to change their attitude, mostly we fail to do so – says Dr. Venus.

State Vaccination Inspectorate: In 2024. 56 Misdemeanor Committee was launched for refusing the obligatory vaccination of the child

Parents always stay with their set attitude. Then the sanitary inspection initiates the proceedings with the judge for the offenses. The penalty is about 260 euros and should be charged with parents for each refused vaccine, for each child, every time they reject, Dr. Venus points out. Epidemiologists, he adds key, are not happy with punishment.

– We are not because parents pay the fine and the child continues to remain unreservedly. That doesn’t make any sense. The purpose is to protect the child from the disease, not to punish the parents. Especially since, when that happens, other parents who do not want to vaccinate the child say that ‘they just want to take money’ – says Dr. Venus. He does not remember, he concludes, a case that some parents paid a penalty for each rejected vaccine for every child.

– During 2024, 56 misdemeanor orders were launched for the refusal of compulsory child vaccination – they said in a 24 -hour state inspectorate.

The most effective measure is a ban on entering an unvaccinated child to a collective – kindergarten or school, but they point out that it is not regulated by the law.

Vaccination drop by 3 percent compared to 2019.