Days before Super Bowl, Arizona gets the measles

CNBC ^ | Jan. 29, 2015 | Fred Imbert

[Redcitizen]

“...the highly contagious virus can linger in the air for two hours...”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mt0ee9FraQ

I can feel it coming in the air tonight....

[donna]

Disney Measles Outbreak Came From Overseas, CDC Says

Genetic tests of the virus affecting Americans are similar to strains seen in Indonesia, Qatar, Azerbaijan and Dubai.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/disney-measles-outbreak-came-overseas-cdc-says-n296441

[discostu]

If the anti-vax crowd hadn’t lowered the immunity of the heard it wouldn’t matter who brought it here because it wouldn’t have found fertile ground to plant in.

[donna]

The thing is, you don't really know who has the measles. It could be the anti-vax crowd, but maybe not.

[discostu]

But you do know that folks who don’t have the vaccine are more likely to get it, and the more folks that get it the more it challenges the immune systems of people that have the vaccine. We went from a position where the number of people getting measles in this country has been basically 0 for almost 25 years to possibly thousand this year depending on how this plays out. And there’s one big thing that’s changed since then, and that change isn’t terrorism or illegals, it’s anti-vax people deliberately weakening their children, and in some cases deliberately exposing them to illness. Now yes correlation isn’t causation, and we need a lot more facts to be sure, but meanwhile people should be getting their kids MMRs like they used, back when nobody got the damn measles.

[SunkenCiv]

It's a surprisingly small keyword, but we've had a recent outbreak of topics:

• MORE CALIFORNIA PANIC: MAN WITH MEASLES VISITED FRESNO MATERNITY WARD [2015]
• Disney Measles Outbreak Came From Overseas, CDC Says [2015]
• Poll Shows Giant Gap Between What Public, Scientists Think [Obey Your Overlords] [2015]
• Of Herds and Harlots, Measles is Back [2015]
• Days before Super Bowl, Arizona gets the measles [2015]
• Measles outbreak with Disney park origins grows to 95 cases ( Criminal invaders & Amnesty ) [2015]
• DAILY MAIL: A 5-Year-Old Girl Just Died of the Very Strain of Flu [2015]
• Sowell: Random Thoughts [2015]
• Measles Outbreak That Started In California Expanding [2015]
• Measles Outbreak That Started In California Expanding [2015]
• Disneyland measles: Rapid spread concerns health officials [2015]
• 5 New Cases Of Disneyland-Linked Measles Reported [2015]
• RIVERSIDE COUNTY: 2 siblings among victims of Disneyland measles outbreak [2015]
• Why New North Carolina Measles Cases Worries Health Officials [2014]
• Ohio Measles Outbreak Is Biggest in U.S. Since 1996 [2014]
• A Doctor's self-serving medical fraud which caused countless illnesses and deaths [2014]
• Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers. You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC. [2014]
• In California, Thousands Exposed to Measles [2014]
• Deadly Diseases Like Measles And Mumps Make Frightening Comeback [2013]
• Texas megachurch run by vaccine-denying preacher battles measles outbreak (Kenneth Copeland) [2013]
• Measles outbreak tied to Texas megachurch sickens 21 [2013]
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Anti-Vaxxer [2013]
• Fight Against Measles Appears Stalled [2012]
• Noblesville Schools cancels events over measles cases (Indianapolis - They came for the Superbowl an [2012]
• Measles Reported in Central Iowa [2011]
• U.S. set to have worst outbreak of measles in more than ten years as disease sweeps Europe [2011]
• Measles virus exposed at two Salt Lake County events, 990 may have been affected [2011]
• Europe, especially France, hit by measles outbreak (vaccinations down) [2011]
• Minnesota health officials move to contain measles outbreak [2011]
• Traveler May Have Spread Measles in 5 US Airports [2011]
• Journal says doctor faked data linking autism to vaccines [2011]
• State confirms fourth measles case at Children's Hospital (Pittsburgh) [2009]
• Study: No link between measles vaccine and autism [2008]
• Measles Cases Grow in Number, and Officials Blame Parents' Fear of Autism [2008]
• Measles Outbreak Spreads in America To 15 States - Overseas Travelers Might Be The Source [2008]
• Measles Cases Now Total 11 [2008]
• Six More Cases Of Measles Reported In San Diego [2008]
• Measles-infected Oregon man exposed air travelers to disease [2007]
• Indiana girl tied to largest measles outbreak in decade [2006]
• Boston reports first measles outbreak in 7 years [2006]
• 'Measles Chart' Shows Reconstruction Progress in Iraq [2006]
• More Illegal Mexican Immigrant Imports - Infectious Diseases (my title) [2006]
• Measles outbreak sickens 4,000 in Romania [2005]
• Higher disease rates attributed to influx of illegals [2005]
• U.N. Says World Is Making Progress in Curtailing Measles Deaths [2005]
• Researchers Create 'Obedient Virus'; Use Measles Virus Against Cancer [2005]
• ASU posting measles warning on its 3 campuses [2005]
• TDH: Mexico-bound need measles vaccine [2004]
• U.K. measles outbreaks pose risk to U.S. [2003]
• Girl gets $4.7M for vaccine injuries [2002]
• U.S. Expert Back MMR Doctor's Findings [2002]

[ColdOne]

LMAO!!!! Thanks I really needed a laugh today!!!!!

[ColdOne]

You do such wonderful posts. Thanks so much for the links you provide.

[donna]

Wouldn't it be wise to get the facts before assigning the blame?

[discostu]

Probably. But nutters are nutter and anti-vaxers are nutters.

[donna]

But, you understand that they are innocent until proven guilty, right?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! That’s the nicest reaction in a while. :’) It’s partly for me as well — sometimes topics I clearly remember don’t show up in a search, except as one of those collection of links, so I can then find the original topic. Of course, having two million topics around here has something to do with that. :’)

[discostu]

Luckily this ain’t a court. So whether they became the ground for measles or not they’re still nutters.

[donna]

I understand. Facts and innocence do not matter to you.

[discostu]

Oh facts matter a lot. It’s a sure fact that anti-vaxers are nut jobs weakening our society and volunteering their kids for an early grave. The only thing at question here is did they participate in this measles outbreak. And since one day they WILL participate in a major outbreak even that one doesn’t matter, because even if they didn’t this time, the next time or the time after that they will. Those are facts, and they are not innocent.

[ErnBatavia]

Me too, and I was under the impression that you only get it once......but then I came down with Rubella while on Mess Duty at Camp Pendleton in 1966, and spent Christmas in the Isolation Section of the base hospital.

I was "salad man" which consisted or rolling up the sleeves and hand/arm mixing up huge plastic tubs of greens -- I'm sure I infected half the Marines stationed around that messhall.

[donna]

Are your posts satisfying to you?

[discostu]

Yup. Pointing out people’s idiocy is fun. I get paid quite well for it, but I enjoy it enough to do it for free too.

[donna]

Who is paying you?

[discostu]

My employers. I’m in software QA, which is basically telling people they did stuff wrong.