Therese now works with a group Grandparents for Vaccines that's trying to talk sense into younger folks who listen to nonsense about vaccination from the likes of RFKJr. and expose their children to real harm by not having them vaccinated.

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While the younger people scorning vaccination grew up protected and have no idea how serious some of these preventable illnesses can be….

He focuses on Therese Vogel, who saw her sister Nancy get measles when Nancy was 4. She developed encephalitis and had brain damage that made her life difficult forever after.

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Jonathan Cohn reports on grandparents now fighting to protect their grandchildren by urging their parents to have them vaccinated. As he notes, those of us who are older lived through years in which there was no vaccine for illnesses that can now be prevented by vaccination, and we saw the consequences of those illnesses.

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Meet the Horrified Grandparents Fighting for Vaccines

They remember what diseases like measles are really like—and want the rest of America to know before it’s too late.

^{Jonathan Cohn (The Bulwark)}