[jeannineinsd]

This is a follow up to a story someone posted earlier (link below). Eleven children in San Diego county have now contacted measles this month. Un-vaccinated school children have caught the disease, and have spread it to un-vaccinated infants.

San Diego is on the border with Mexico, and there are a large number of immigrants here. The first suspicion might be the outbreak is among immigrants and poorer people. It is not. The outbreak is taking place among the well to do. A child on a flight from Switzerland, another child on a flight to Hawaii, other children shopping at Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods.

A contagious disease is just that, a contagious disease. If you catch it, you catch it. A parent's comfortable lifestyle can't really protect children. When the parents made the decision not to immunize, I'm sure they really didn't think their children would become ill with the measles.

Earlier thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969480/posts

[detective]

Illegals are spreading diseases in the U.S. and there is nothing we can do about it. If anyone tries to take action they will be accused of denying them their rights.

[RightWhale]

We used to get 1000s of measles cases every city every year. Now we are worried about a dozen. No question actum est de republica.

[TheMole]

In the United States, measles can be fatal in up to three per 1,000 children who contract it.

I wonder about this factoid. I grew up in a town of about 10,000 people in the 1960s. As far as I know, every kid had measles, and nobody ever suffered any serious aftereffects.