A rash.

A simple rash.

But then he had a hard time seeing.

Pascal Tarakdjian suffered from measles as an adult.

Pascal had been vaccinated himself but it was in the 1970s and he never had a booster shot.

His recovery was long and slow but all things considered--he got off lucky.

Ruth Bahri from Victoria had a brother-in-law, Toufik, who wasn't so fortunate.

He caught the measles when he was a toddler.

At first, by all appearances, he got over it.

Toufik was living in Morocco at the time.

So Ruth and her husband brought Toufik to Canada.

They got help for him from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.

That's when they found out he had had a rare complication from the measles he had as a young boy.

It's called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis or SSPE for short.

They did an encephelogram and the doctor said to me he has the brain waves of a 90 year old.

It was like alzheimers.

He was semi-comatose.

He knew he had traveled.

He was somewhat aware of his surroundings--who was there, but he wasn't able to participate.

He couldn't walk.

He had to wear adult diapers.

All of these things you go from being a high school kid to practically a vegetable.

Ruth Bahri's brother-in-law had measles as a toddler.

Two years later, he died.

It's stories such as these that are putting many parents on edge...even making some angry.

Mallory Olsheshki from Pembroke, Ontario is one such mother.

She has four children--the youngest, Riley, is immunocompromised, which means for medical reasons he cannot get vaccinated.

She was in our studio in Ottawa.

Darlene Tindell is a mother of two children--10 and 12 years old.

She practices what she calls energy medicine and teaches yoga in Sudbury.

Darlene has chosen not to vaccinate her children.

We know many of you will have thoughts to add to this discussion.