Riley Hughes died at just four weeks old from whooping cough. Now his image is being used to campaign for the pro-vaccination movement. Source: Facebook
AUSTRALIAN parents are fighting back against the anti-vaccination movement, warning their friends and families they won't be welcome in their homes unless they are vaccinated.
Expectant parents are sharing a photo of Riley Hughes on social media with the slogan "No Vax? No Visit!"
Riley was just four weeks old when he died from whooping cough last month and has become the face of the pro-vaccination movement.
The post says: "To protect our new baby, we ask that ALL our friends and family make sure they are up to date with their vaccinations.
"Please talk to your doctor about which vaccines you may require. Immunity wears off particularly quickly for whooping cough (pertussis), so you need regular boosters."
Expectant parents are posting this message on Facebook. Source: Facebook
Last month Riley's family begged other parents to vaccinate their children.
"If you're anti-immunisation/anti-logic/anti-duty of care to your society as a whole, then feel free to take a look at this picture of my son in hospital right now at 4 weeks old with whooping cough — and then come and tell me how you think immunisation is a bad thing," Riley's father Greg Hughes wrote on Facebook last month.
'Please keep him in your thoughts' ... Riley's parents posted this picture while he was fighting whooping cough. Source: Supplied
The post currently being shared on Facebook was created by The Northern Rivers Vaccination Supporters (NRVS), a pro-vaccination grassroots movement started by six women and a male scientist who have experienced first-hand the consequences of people not vaccinating their children.
The core administrators of the NRVS include an immunisation nurse, an Intensive Care specialist doctor and a scientist.
"We have all had first hand experience of vaccine preventable diseases. We have had them, our kids have had them, and we have cared for patients with them. We know only too well the true horrors of how awful these diseases can be," the group writes on their website.
Rachel Heap is one of the group's founders and is an intensive care specialist.
"My first day at work, I admitted a baby with pertussis (whooping cough)," she shares on the NRVS website.
Riley Hughes has become the face of the pro-vaccination movement. Source: Facebook
"He was appallingly sick. He survived — just — and was discharged ... 6 months later. He was still dependent on oxygen, and may always be. He may well also have sustained brain damage but it was too early to tell. He was such a cute baby. The second baby I saw with pertussis did not survive."
Heidi Robertson is another NRVS supporter and is a former paramedic. She says she contracted whooping cough in 2008 when she was six months pregnant.
She experienced severe coughing spasms, vomiting and burst blood vessels for three months.
"I look back now and feel sick to the stomach that I may have unknowingly infected others during the time I remained undiagnosed.
If I had contracted the disease even one month later, I would have passed it on to my vulnerable newborn baby, and this would be a very different and tragic story.
"I was a fit, healthy adult. How a baby suffers from this I cannot even begin to imagine."
The NRVS says it wants to prevent further suffering by sending a "positive message out there to people who are confused or hesitant about vaccinations, to provide honest and clear information, and to support one another as we strive to prevent infectious disease."
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