Posted on 01/16/2020 3:05:04 PM PST by bgill
On the heels of the city's first case of measles in 20 years, another vaccine-preventable disease, rubella, has been confirmed in Austin.
Austin Public Health says this is the first case of rubella in Travis County since 1999.
Rubella is covered by the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. While Austin/Travis County has a relatively high vaccination rate, there are pockets of communities where vaccination opt-outs bring herd immunity to an unstable status.
Rubella is less contagious than measles, but the virus has similar symptoms and is contracted the same way.
Rubella is spread mainly through droplets that come from a sick person’s nose and mouth when they cough, sneeze or talk. These droplets can travel up to 6 feet and land on people nearby or inhaled into the lungs.
It also can spread when you touch virus-contaminated objects, such as a doorknob and then touch your face.
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3rd world diseases.
Austin. The city that welcomes homeless bums and encourages camping in the streets.
Rubella will be the least of their outbreak diseases to worry about very very soon.
Soon Austin will catch up to the other liberal cities who have tuberculosis, cholera, and typhoid!
Come on Texans, Man Up, here in Los Angeles we got Typhus, Leprosy and the Plague!!
Blood on the hands of that idiot Jenny McCarthy.
Shhhhhhhh! The Anti-vaxxers are probably already inbound to this thread, and are going to shout you down in 5... 4... 3...
/wish it WAS sarc.
Don’t forget lepersy!!!
Do we all need boosters. I’m worried about my 30 something kids.
if you got the vaccine and you still got rubella..
the vaccine didn’t work, did it.
Herd immunity is a myth.
What isn’t a myth is that foreigners with diseases being let into this country in record numbers are the ones infecting us and causing almost all of these problems.
exactly
Illegals not antivaxers
No, the tooth fairy is a myth. Herd immunity is why there are people walking around saying "I didn't get the xxx vaccination, and I didn't get sick."
What isn’t a myth is that foreigners with diseases being let into this country in record numbers are the ones infecting us and causing almost all of these problems.
True, but this could be prevented by vaccinations.
+100
Yes because every vaccine works against every strain.
Genius. Just saying the words makes it true.
I had rubella at the age of about four. My recollection of it was a nasty itchy rash that lasted a few days with a fever and chills. I contracted chicken pox in my mid thirties in a third world shithole, and it was over two weeks of complete hell.
I got my second shingrax vaccine last spring & also got an MMR shot. Pharmacist said I’m good for life. Before Thanksgiving I got my flu shot & TDAP.
You can’t play around with people coming into the country & others here who are unvaccinated.
We need more diseases in this country
Sanctuary City I believe. Liberalism ultimately destroys everything.
This political correctness needs to stop. When my wife came to the USA 48 years ago, she was required to present a yellow vaccination booklet to prove that she’d been vaccinated to a bunch of diseases. What ever happened to the requirement for a health certificate?
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