- A school teacher from Victoria posted in an anti-vaxxer Facebook group
- Another mother asked parents with infected children to ‘share with her kids’
- The teacher and mother-of-two responded ‘same plz!’ to her request
A private school teacher from Victoria has taken to Facebook to find a child who is infected with the measles to pass them on to her own two children.
The mother-of-two, whose name had not been released, posted on Australia: Childcare for Unvaccinated Children, a private Facebook group, over the weekend, according to The Herald Sun.
‘With the recent measles outbreak near Dandenong, please contact/message me if your children get measles and you are happy to share,’ a fellow anti-vaxxer said.
‘Same plz!’ the private school teacher responded.
A private school teacher from Victoria has taken to Facebook to find a child who is infected with the measles to pass them on to her own two children (pictured is the Facebook post)
The mother-of-two, whose name had not been released, posted on Australia: Childcare for Unvaccinated Children, a private Facebook group, over the weekend (stock image)
Her comments come after health officials warned of a measles outbreak in Melbourne’s south-east and western Sydney.
Deputy Chief Health Officer Dr Brett Sutton told the Herald Sun he could not ‘fathom why any parent would put their child at such a risk’.
‘Measles still kills hundreds of thousands of children globally each year,’ he said.
‘And around one in a thousand in Australia will die if infected.’
Measles symptoms can begin with a runny nose, red eyes and cough.
A rash and fever develop 3-7 days after the first symptoms.
Her comments come after health officials warned of a measles outbreak in Melbourne’s south-east and western Sydney (stock image)