Posted on 07/10/2008 2:02:48 PM PDT by AZ Righty
With the total number of sick people now at 127, this is the most since 138 people in 1997 and 508 in 1996, the CDC said.
The last serious U.S. outbreak occurred from 1989 to 1991, when 55,000 people got measles and 123 died.
No deaths have been reported in the current outbreak.
States with cases, the CDC said, include Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington state, as well as Washington, D.C.
Travelers got measles in Switzerland, Israel, Belgium, Italy, India, Germany, China, Pakistan, Russia and the Philippines, the CDC said.
Measles remains a leading cause of death among children in poor countries, killing about 250,000 people a year globally.
The disease causes fever, cough, redness and irritation of the eyes and a rash. Serious complications include encephalitis and pneumonia that can be fatal.
Data’s a little old, but probably still pretty accurate.
What fascinates me are the areas with both high vaccination rates and high disease rates.
Probably because areas with high outbreaks are hit with a vaccination program to prevent it from spreading worldwide.
What surprised me most is one of the highest countries in the newest reports was France.
Wow, that’s the last thing the people trying to hijack this thread needed to see.
Yeah, first TB and now measles. Next polio?
Hmm thats only because you aren’t a mother!
Good point. And it does look like mostly vaccination programs did reduce the rates in following years.
I wonder what’s up with France? I notice that they didn’t report/no data’d both charts.
I also note that Algeria has a pretty high rate, I could speculate that France’s high rate is due to yutes, but I’ve already made a fool out of myself once on this thread...
No, it’s because 127 cases of measles in a country of 300 million people isn’t scary.
Coincidentally today an Indy series driver had to withdraw from this Saturday’s Indy race due to having a very contagious form of the mumps.
Nothing like bringing in real data to ruin a perfectly good argument...
Must be one of those “Mexicans cause disease/climate change/whatever except when they do not” lines of analytical reasoning that I don’t really understand.
Sure. Blame the Germans...
Pretty much.
Or in other terms...
The western world is responsible for global warming
The third world is responsible for global worming
“Virae do not cause measles, Mexicans cause measles?”
Nope. Areas with poor public health infrastructure and a casual attitude towards personal hygiene tend to have higher rates of disease and parasites.
First world countries tend to have the diseases of the rich - diabetes, atherosclerosis, obesity, etc.
Third world countries tend to have more infectious and communicable diseases - tuberculosis, cholera, intestinal parasites, etc.
When mass quantities of people move from one world to another, they tend to swap diseases.
Third worlders tend to carry more than one kind of culture across the boarders.
That’s why they stopped my ancestors at the boarder and made sure the passed a health check before they would admit them into this country.
Man, this thread became quiet. People ran out of knees, I suppose.
Yeah. Wanna keep shouting at each other? Maybe we can draw a crowd?
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