Posted on 03/11/2019 6:43:44 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Measles, a virus that invades the nose and throat, causing fever, cough and phlegm, is one of the most contagious pathogens on the planet. Before 1963, it infected some four million people every year in the United States alone. Nearly 50,000 of them would land in the hospital with complications like severe diarrhea, pneumonia and brain inflammation that sometimes resulted in lifelong disability. Of the 500 or so patients who died from these complications each year, most were children younger than 5.
Until recently, those numbers were a matter of history. The measles vaccine, which was introduced to the United States in 1963, drove the annual case count from four million to zero inside of four decades. Measles was officially eradicated in America in 2000 and was largely wiped from our collective memory soon after.
But in the shadow of that memory lapse, a different virus has spread: anti-vaccine propaganda and vaccine misinformation. Both have persuaded a small but growing number of parents that vaccines designed to inoculate against infectious diseases pose a greater health risk than the diseases themselves. As a result, these parents are skipping crucial shots for their children. And as the number of unvaccinated children grows, some vaccine-preventable diseases are making a comeback.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has logged at least six measles outbreaks so far this year, across five states, involving more than 100 patients. In recent weeks, as those numbers have ticked upward, both houses of Congress have held hearings to discuss the issue, while more states have considered limiting vaccine exemptions for school-age children and several prominent social media platforms have pledged to block anti-vaccine propaganda and vaccine misinformation from their sites.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Its coming back alright. If I were to make a movie about it then I would call it:
“It Came From Across The Border”.
All these diseases we had eradicated that are making a comeback couldn’t have anything to do with the millions of illegal aliens, could it?
It’s called “ope borders”.
How do you stop it?
Move to a posh, gated, liberal community.
Seems funny to hear them crying wolf now, after they’ve advocated open borders and denounced any mention of an “emergency”
The spread is not the fault of those who choose not to vaccine, but rather the choice to spread the disease once the “disease” crosses the border!
Probably so. But those that don’t get vaccines are playing Russian roulette.
I had measles in 1961.
That plus a myriad of other conquered diseases.
Whatever. I was born (way) before ‘63. Didn’t get vaxxed and never got it. Yeah, I know. Anecdotal.
Like I said, whatever.
This I’ll say, though; if vaccines are as safe as claimed, remove the legal immunity enjoyed by vaccine manufacturers imposed in the 80’s.
A lot of people had measles in 1961. And your point is?
“I had measles in 1961.”
Back in the ‘50s and ‘60s, I didn’t know anyone who didn’t get measles. I vaguely remember Mom putting me in bed in a dark room for a few days when I had it.
Stop letting in sick and diseased foreigners carrying nonnaitve US strains of measles. And other exotic diseases like chagas.
There is a 100% correlation between measles, whooping cough, mumps, etc. outbreaks in the US and uncontrolled illegal immigration.
A series of calculated fuel-air strikes along the border would be both deterrent and sterilization.
Or just get the vaccine
And unvaccinated populations
Hm. Your odds of death playing rr are significantly higher than not getting vaccinated, no?
Interesting... these words do NOT appear in the New York Slimes article:
illegal
immigrant
alien
border
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