The mothers of children who died of the flu and other vaccine preventable diseases have come under attack online from anti-vaxxers, a new report reveals.
Mothers who speak out about their own children's death in an effort to raise awareness and encourage vaccination are often accused of being pharmaceutical industry plants, according to a Tuesday report from CNN.
Serese Marotta of Syracuse, New York lost her five-year-old son, Joseph, to the flu in 2009. She is now chief operating officer of Families Fighting Flu, a group that encourages flu awareness and prevention, including vaccination.
When she posted a video commemorating her son on Facebook in 2017, she was met with a stream of abusive comments calling her 'slut' and 'pharma w**re'. 'How much is this b***h being paid,' another comment read.
Serese Marotta of Syracuse, New York lost her five-year-old son, Joseph (above), to the flu in 2009. She has come under intensive abuse online for advocating vaccinations
Another mother who turned her grief to advocacy is Jill Promoli, a photographer who lives near Toronto.
In 2016, her two-year-old son Jude McGee and his twin brother came down with slight. When she put them down for a nap, they seemed fine. Jude never woke up.
An autopsy showed that Jude had died of the flu, and Promoli began to advocate for flu prevention.
She came under vicious online attacks by anti-vaxxers, who believe that vaccines do irreparable harm to children.
Though medical authorities including the CDC say that any risks of vaccination are slight and heavily outweighed by the benefits, anti-vaxxers believe that this advice is all part of a conspiracy to benefit the pharmaceutical industry, or otherwise harm children for ulterior motives.
After her son's death, anti-vaxxers swarmed Promoli's Facebook page, accusing her of murdering Jude and inventing the story about the flu to cover her tracks.
Others said that vaccines had actually killed her son, and accused her of advocating for shots so that other children would die, and their parents would share in her misery.
Jill Promoli, a photographer who lives near Toronto, lost her two-year-old son Jude (with her right) to the flu in 2016. She has now become a flu prevention advocate (right)
'The first time it made me feel really sick because I couldn't fathom how anybody could even come up with such a terrible claim,' Promoli told CNN. 'It caught me off guard in its cruelty. What kind of a person does this?'
Catherine Hughes, an Australian mother who lost her one-month old son, Riley, to whooping cough in 2015, has also received online abuse.
Riley was too young to be vaccinated, and relied on herd immunity, or the vaccination of the community around him.
Unfortunately, the city of Perth has some of the lowest vaccination rates in Australia.
'Riley's death was a very inconvenient truth for anti-vaccine activists,' Hughes told CNN.
'The nasty messages started 24 hours after he died. They called us baby killers and said we would have the blood of other babies on our hands. We've been told to kill ourselves.'
Hughes and her husband Greg started the vaccination campaign Light for Riley, and have been subjected to ceaseless abuse.
'F**k you, Hughes family,' one Facebook user wrote on the Light for Riley page.
'What a f**king evil wh**re you really are,' another user wrote to them in a private Facebook message, according to CNN.
One-month-old Riley was too young to be vaccinated, and relied on the community around him for herd immunity. He died of whooping cough in Australia in 2015
Catherine and Greg Hughes were shocked when they came under intensive attack for speaking out about Riley's death and advocating for vaccinations
Riley's parents were devastated when the newborn died of whooping cough in 2015
For their part, anti-vaxxers often say that their own children have been harmed by vaccines, and that only a small fringe of their numbers would engage in personal attacks on the mothers of children who have died from vaccine preventable illnesses.
'Any discussions about parents who lose their children after those children are vaccinated would be minor in number, and even smaller would be the number of members reaching out to parents in private message to share their concerns that vaccines may have played a role in a death,' Larry Cook, the founder of Stop Mandatory Vaccination, told the cable network.
'I do not condone violent behavior or tone and encourage decorum during discussion,' Cook wrote.
He added that anyone 'who deliberately engage[s] in the politics of advocating for compulsory vaccination where children may be further damaged through government vaccine mandates can expect push back and resistance, alongside knowledgeable discussions about vaccine risk in social media commentary.'
Cook said that members of his own group had been harassed and threatened, and shared a private message he had received threatening to 'put a bullet' in him for his own advocacy.
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