Posted on 01/09/2019 6:55:56 AM PST by C19fan
Cases of measles have reached a 20-year high in several New York counties amid an outbreak that threatens to reach epidemic proportions, experts say.
At least 160 people have been infected by the virus, which typically strikes children, in New York and unusual outbreaks have been reported internationally.
The worst affected areas so far are Rockland County - where 105 cases have been reported - and an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, where at least 55 have been infected.
Meanwhile, 25 other states have reported outbreaks, with numbers climbing particularly high in Oregon and Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Where does it say the sick haven’t been vaccinated?
Darwinian law is very unforgiving. However most baby boomers had the measles and survived without serious complications. The lack of vaccinations in these groups underscores an unhealthy indifference to science.
PC till it hurts
In the article
Please enlighten me. Why do Orthodox Jewish folks refuse to vaccinate? They always seem like a pretty intelligent bunch.
We’ll be getting more and more turd world diseases coming in.
Because they are a pretty intelligent bunch.
I had the 2 week variety when a kid. It sucked. Also, had chicken pox.
The article states that typically it’s children who contract measles.
I recently discovered that one of my great-grandmothers died at age 66 of complications from measles. This was in 1924.
Cases of measles have reached a 20-year high in several New York counties amid an outbreak that threatens to reach epidemic proportions, experts say.
Highest percentage primarily among Orthodox Jews and anti-vaxxers.
At least 160 people have been infected by the virus, which typically strikes children, in New York (Brooklyn)
and unusual outbreaks have been reported internationally.
Meanwhile, 25 other states have reported outbreaks, with numbers climbing particularly high in Oregon and Washington.
Among other countries, Israel has seen a recent resurgence in measles.
In October, the sudden uptick in cases in New York City was linked to an unvaccinated traveler from Israel.
As the infection worsens, complications can include diarrhea, lung infections and brain swelling.
Some one in 20 children that contract measles develop pneumonia, making it highly dangerous to young kids.
Measles, chicken pox, mumps ... had'em all as a kid.
My brother and I had measles,mumps,chicken pox,and whooping cough.
My brother also got scarlet fever——we were quarantined.
That’s the way it was.
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Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Yet they vote for the party that removed Israel and God Himself from their platform.
I had measles in Wasilla about 5 or 6 years ago. I couldn’t believe it.
That’s the way it was.
Was. These days ebola nurse Kaci Hickox is celebrated for breaking quarantine to go get pizza.
Hey, if your kid dies of ebola so I can get me some pizza here, it was, like, totally worth it...
Yeah, let’s let a few million more illegals into the country, what could go wrong?
Yep.
It doesn’t look like it is working out too well for them
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