Posted on 11/16/2021 10:35:27 AM PST by nickcarraway
“We must act now to strengthen disease surveillance systems and close immunity gaps, before travel and trade return to pre-pandemic levels, to prevent deadly measles outbreaks and mitigate the risk of other vaccine-preventable diseases,” Kevin Cain, global immunization director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a prepared statement issued Wednesday.
Specifically, disease detection and diagnostics diverted to support COVID-19 responses, coupled with large numbers of unvaccinated children and persistent global pockets of measles outbreaks, have increased the “likelihood of measles-related deaths and serious complications in children,” Cain added.
According to the CDC, the last widespread measles outbreak in the United States occurred in 2019, when more than 1,200 cases were reported.
According to CBS News, an estimated three million fewer babies were vaccinated in 2020 against the potentially deadly disease than in 2019. Meanwhile, only about 70% of infants received both doses of the two-dose vaccine - typically administered at 1 and 4 years - which falls substantially below the 95% threshold the CDC and the World Health Organization contend is necessary to shield communities from an outbreak.
In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the postponement of a 2020 measles vaccine campaign that was slated to roll out across 23 different countries, meaning more than 93 million people are vulnerable to the disease, the network reported, citing CDC and WHO data.
“While reported measles cases dropped in 2020, evidence suggests we are likely seeing the calm before the storm as the risk of outbreaks continues to grow around the world,” said Dr. Kate O’Brien, director of WHO’s department of immunization, vaccines and biologicals.
“It’s critical that countries vaccinate as quickly as possible against COVID-19, but this requires new resources so that it does not come at the cost of essential immunization programs. Routine immunization must be protected and strengthened; otherwise, we risk trading one deadly disease for another,” she added.
According to the CDC and WHO, measles is considered one of the world’s most contagious human viruses, but its vaccine has prevented an estimated 30 million deaths in the past two decades alone. Regardless, an estimated 7.5 million people worldwide contracted measles in 2020, resulting in nearly 61,000 deaths, the agencies stated.
Meanwhile, the latest Minnesota Department of Health data show the missed vaccination rate for 2-year-olds has increased from about 21% in 2019 to nearly 26% in 2020 and is tracking toward 34% for 2021 year to date, KSTP reported.
Dr. Frank Rhame, an infectious disease specialist with Allina Health, told the TV station that his primary concern is “importation” of measles cases, wherein an infected person entering the United States spreads the virus.
“We don’t have it circulating right now. So it becomes a problem when there is an importation,” Rhame said.
“If there are a low enough fraction of people vaccinated, that allows that importation to produce an outbreak,” he added.
Their calculations sound a little spotty.
I no longer trust them not to release whatever they need to release to
maintain power and control.
“Routine immunization must be protected and strengthened; otherwise, we risk trading one deadly disease for another.”
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Vaxx Passports!
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Dr. Frank Rhame, an infectious disease specialist with Allina Health, told the TV station that his primary concern is “importation” of measles cases, wherein an infected person entering the United States spreads the virus.
“We don’t have it circulating right now. So it becomes a problem when there is an importation,” Rhame said.
“If there are a low enough fraction of people vaccinated, that allows that importation to produce an outbreak,” he added.
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Deliberate and non-health-screened importations of illegal aliens in the USA has increased 10 fold under this anti-American one-world government administration. They’re working toward the loss of the sovereignty of the USA to the one-world government forced via “Emergency” over-ride of our Constitutional rights, laws and protections and unless we take our nation back from these tyrants immediately, we’ll not survive.
Went to Wal-Mart to pick up the rabbits’ food and despite having no government or corporate-mandated masking I and one other fellow were the only ones not masked. People have adapted well to the new normal.
Measles are the most infectious disease known.
If you do not have immunity and get in contact, you WILL get measles.
They could be deadly on occasion.
Yet humanity lived with them for thousands of years.
We somehow managed. Without Fauci telling us what to do!
Surprisingly that is NOT true. Measles is a relatively new disease... of humans. When it evolved from its parent virus, Rinderpest, is disputed, but almost certainly less than plural thousands of years ago and arguably less than ONE thousand years ago.
Rinderpest doesn't get talked about much now because it didn't affect humans (if you don't count its offshoot measles) and we have managed to eradicate it from the numerous species of animals it used to infect. The second eradicated virus, after smallpox. Canine distemper virus is another surviving cousin. But in its prime Rinderpest was a devastating disease that wiped out whole economies and whole ecologies. It's fascinating, in a morbid way, to read about it. Those familiar with Africa today wouldn't not recognize much of it in preceding massive the Rinderpest outbreaks in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Dutch (Rinderpest means "cattle plague" in Dutch, although it infected much more than domestic cattle) starting trying to develop what we'd now call a vaccine for it decades before Jenner found one for smallpox.
Communists will keep using biological warfare over and over unless they are stopped.
My understanding is measles are not fatal, even in third world countries, unless there is a severe nutritional deficiency.
I would disagree.
From Wikipedia
It is quite deadly.
“Between roughly 1855 and 2005, measles is estimated to have killed about 200 million people worldwide”
It originated somewhere in Europe or Middle East, so people of European origin are somewhat immune from the worst of it by now.
Heck, I am a survivor!
I remember, when it got into town, it infected everybody who had not it before, But, once you have survived it, you were immune for life!
In the areas of the globe, where it got late, it was really devastating. E,g. It killed like 20% of Native Hawaiian, including the king, when it got to Hawaii.
But even among the somewhat immune population, it had the fatality on the order of Covid, more less.
I guess, I stay corrected. Wiki list measles as originated between 400 BC and 500AD. and fully developed later on. But it had been around for a while!
It may be actually of European origin. It seems that Europeans are the most resilient to it.
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