Posted on 08/28/2019 12:17:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week sounded the alarm that recent measles outbreaks have put the 2000 declaration of the disease having been eliminated at risk, according to a CNN report.
The ongoing outbreaks have created a “reasonable chance” the nation will lose measles elimination status in October, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told the network.
"It certainly is incredibly frustrating and upsetting to the public health community that we may lose measles elimination status, because we do have a safe and effective vaccine," she told CNN.
For a country to have its elimination status rescinded, measles must have been spreading continuously for a year. Two outbreaks began in New York City and Rockland County, New York, in autumn 2018, with more than 900 cases between the two locations.
Numerous cases have been concentrated among the city and county’s Orthodox Jewish enclaves, many members of which have religious objections to vaccinations. The last year has seen other measles outbreaks in 29 other states, but none of them were as long-lasting.
The CDC will release a more detailed statement on the U.S.’s measles elimination status next week, Messonnier told CNN.
Twelve new cases of measles, the majority in New York, were announced this week alone, and children returning to school is likely to exacerbate the issue, Dr. William Schaffner, an adviser to the CDC and an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University, told CNN.
Losing the status could prove both a national embarrassment and a hindrance to U.S. attempts to reduce the spread of the disease around the world, Dr. Paul Spiegel, director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University, told CNN.
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This article fails to mention THE SOURCE of the outbreak.
Keep voting democrat.
When sources have been mentioned recently, the blame got put on anti vaxxers and Hasidic Jews who don't vaccinate.
WE ALL KNOW it is from unscreened unvaccinated Third Worlders flooding across the border that is bringing diseases here.
“See ya’ at the signing”
George W. Bush didn’t get his amnesty, not for lack of trying. (TWICE)
Flimsey Grahamnesty is now on record with THREE amnesty votes.
Micro Rubio only has the one....../s
When are we going to get rid of the people who have been trying to make the US into North Mexico?
This article fails to mention THE SOURCE of the outbreak.
Agree. It does attempt to blame the N.Y. Jewish communities for lack of vaccinations.
Odd, these folks haven’t likely just recently changed their vaccination beliefs/habits....so, what else has changed?
Hmmmmm.
Thanks, 0zikabama.
When you let in illegal immigrants, you let in their diseases too.
Voting for Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio, or anyone named Bush gets the same results.
Here in Washington we have a bunch of anti-vaccine people. I can remember back when I was in school you had to provide proof of immunization or you did not get enrolled. Up here in the new utopian state I guess that rule has been tossed out...
RE: WE ALL KNOW it is from unscreened unvaccinated Third Worlders flooding across the border that is bringing diseases here.
OR, it could be from Americans who traveled to these third world countries and brought the diseases back.
SEE HERE:
U Michigan is a wholly owned subsidiary of the CDC.
The government buys off the State universities with grants. Sort of like global warming. If you go against the government doctrine, you are a heretic.
There is no such thing as herd immunity if immigrants enter the country and live in the same neighborhoods.
A, most Americans are vaccinated, particularly when they go overseas, and B, I don’t believe a word NPR says. They outed themselves as Democrat Party (who loves illegals) mouthpiece long ago.
Millions of unvaccinated people from the world’s most diseased places, and the anti-vaxxing luddite moms and their latest cause.
Anti-vaxxers giving measles to other anti-vaxxers.
There is no such thing as herd immunity if immigrants enter the country and live in the same neighborhoods.
“When you let in illegal immigrants, you let in their diseases too.”
And there is something we used to do almost completely, and something those illegals don’t. This is a real brain teaser...
This is what happens when you import disease.
So go back and get vaccinated AGAIN! /sarc
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