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Measles Outbreak Spreads in America To 15 States - Overseas Travelers Might Be The Source
EmpowHer - Her Health News ^ | 07/10/08 | EmpowHer - Her Health News

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: health; measles; measlesoutbreak; muchkneejerking; postfirstreadlater
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To: AZ Righty

21 posted on 07/10/2008 2:27:23 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehrling

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.


22 posted on 07/10/2008 2:29:01 PM PDT by null and void (With Nobama it will be 9/10 through 9/17 every week. - Coffee200AM)
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To: null and void
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.

23 posted on 07/10/2008 2:31:20 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehrling

Wow, that’s the last thing the people trying to hijack this thread needed to see.


24 posted on 07/10/2008 2:35:00 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: AZ Righty

Yeah, first TB and now measles. Next polio?


25 posted on 07/10/2008 2:35:09 PM PDT by Heartland Mom (Build the fence, secure our borders, deport illegals - Protect our sovereignty!)
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To: TigersEye

Hmm thats only because you aren’t a mother!


26 posted on 07/10/2008 2:35:53 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn! ...........^............)
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To: 1rudeboy
LoL, someone could pick up Ebola in Africa and the knee jerkers would say it is Mexico's fault.
27 posted on 07/10/2008 2:36:16 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehrling

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...


28 posted on 07/10/2008 2:38:00 PM PDT by null and void (With Nobama it will be 9/10 through 9/17 every week. - Coffee200AM)
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To: pandoraou812

No, it’s because 127 cases of measles in a country of 300 million people isn’t scary.


29 posted on 07/10/2008 2:38:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin '36 Olympics for murdering regimes Beijing '08)
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To: AZ Righty

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.


30 posted on 07/10/2008 2:39:21 PM PDT by ZGuy
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To: 1rudeboy
grrrrrrrr

Nothing like bringing in real data to ruin a perfectly good argument...

31 posted on 07/10/2008 2:39:25 PM PDT by null and void (With Nobama it will be 9/10 through 9/17 every week. - Coffee200AM)
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To: TigersEye
I never had anything but German measles. We had vaccinations by then & thankfully I never got the regular measles & I surely don't want to deal with them. Chicken pox was bad enough with the older kids & I got that a few times. Even though Dr's say its impossible I have had that a few times. So stuff like this upsets me. I tend to catch things easily and I am unlucky.
32 posted on 07/10/2008 2:44:25 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn! ...........^............)
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To: null and void

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.


33 posted on 07/10/2008 2:51:06 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: pandoraou812

Sure. Blame the Germans...


34 posted on 07/10/2008 2:54:25 PM PDT by null and void (With Nobama it will be 9/10 through 9/17 every week. - Coffee200AM)
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To: 1rudeboy

Pretty much.


35 posted on 07/10/2008 2:55:02 PM PDT by null and void (With Nobama it will be 9/10 through 9/17 every week. - Coffee200AM)
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To: 1rudeboy

Or in other terms...

The western world is responsible for global warming
The third world is responsible for global worming


36 posted on 07/10/2008 3:00:36 PM PDT by null and void (With Nobama it will be 9/10 through 9/17 every week. - Coffee200AM)
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To: null and void

“Virae do not cause measles, Mexicans cause measles?”


37 posted on 07/10/2008 3:06:36 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

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.


38 posted on 07/10/2008 3:20:49 PM PDT by null and void (With Nobama it will be 9/10 through 9/17 every week. - Coffee200AM)
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To: null and void

Man, this thread became quiet. People ran out of knees, I suppose.


39 posted on 07/10/2008 3:48:35 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Yeah. Wanna keep shouting at each other? Maybe we can draw a crowd?


40 posted on 07/10/2008 3:52:05 PM PDT by null and void (With Nobama it will be 9/10 through 9/17 every week. - Coffee200AM)
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