Posted on 08/20/2018 2:29:36 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Cases of measles in Europe have hit a record high, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
More than 41,000 people have been infected in the first six months of 2018, leading to 37 deaths.
Last year there were 23,927 cases and the year before 5,273. Experts blame this surge in infections on a drop in the number of people being vaccinated.
In England, there have been 807 cases so far this year. The WHO is calling on European countries to take action.
Public Health England say the outbreaks in England are largely due to people who have travelled to areas of mainland Europe that have had outbreaks.
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What you’re sponsoring is the idiocy.
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“The last reported case in the United States occurred in 1949, and the last wild case of smallpox occurred in 1977 in Somalia.”
I was vaccinated against smallpox in the early 1960s along with every kid in my school. Why was there no outbreak then?
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“Cases of measles in Europe have hit a record high, according to the World Health Organization”
Moslems are having measles parties for the German kids.
“Vaccinations have created every epidemic since WW II.”
Like the current polio epidemic?
“It can get here by air in just a few hours riding coach.”
You get an in-flight measles blanket for your comfort.
“What other plagues are migrants bringing into Europe?”
Probably lots of stuff previously unknown to medical science.
Small pox has been eradicated, polio is close behind, and there have been no epidemic-scale outbreaks of mumps, measles, pertussis, or rubella in the US for over half a century.
You anti-vax luddites are as much a danger to public health as Venezuelan socialists.
Nah, you put 20-30 kids in a room and watch what happens, sewer or no sewer.
Look, my Uncle lived his life with severe complications from Polio. Please don’t lecture me on vaccines.
“True that. Vaccinations are the one of the greatest frauds perpetrated on the human race.”
You and the whack job vegetarian Deirde Imus? Say it ain’t so!
Of course. :P
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No, it takes the weakening of the immune system that is accomplished in mass through vaccines to get the epidemic going.
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Polio wasn’t a big problem until the Salk vaccine infected hundreds of thousands in the mid ‘50s
Dead wrong, but thanks for playing.
Don Pardo, please tell ES what his parting gifts are...
“No, it takes the weakening of the immune system that is accomplished in mass through vaccines to get the epidemic going.”
What kind of magical thinking is that? What epidemics?
That’s 180 degrees from how immunizations work. People who have been vaccinated have much more competent immune systems than the unvaccinated, and because their immune systems have been primed, vaccinated people resist infection better and are much less likely to infect others.
“Polio wasn’t a big problem until the Salk vaccine infected hundreds of thousands in the mid ‘50s”
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What on earth are you talking about?
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I’m talking about a deliberate epidemic that killed hundreds and left thousands impaired.
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When? What year?
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Americans no longer live in fear and my parents are long gone. Your hypothesis defies my experience of reality.
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Evidence of your senses?
Wow!
There was no polio epidemic in the US ubtil the Salk vaccine created one.
It was a disease that was talked about because a president had contracted it, not because of great numbers of infections.
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It was either ‘54 or ‘55.
Court confiscated the vaccine from Cutter Labratories, and it was found to be heavily loaded with live viri.
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