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.
(Maybe they all got Kneesles?)
Nah. The herd has stampeded elsewhere.
Hey I didn’t make the name up! But I do remember having them & it wasn’t as bad as the measles according to my mother.
LOL! I was just jerking your chain!
(Successfully, apparently)...
“As far as the spreading of the infection, it could be that some nonimmunized immigrants were the ones to contract the disease here after exposure. Not sure about that either.”
Generally, measles is brought back by kids of yuppies, who go overseas, but avoid immunizing their kids because of the perceived dangers of inoculation. They are safe in the US (well, until yuppies take their uninoculated kids overseas, who catch something and bring it back to spread the joy) because of herd immunity.
Call it liberal upper-middle class superstition. They are really little different than Muslims in Niger that refused to get their kids inoculated against polio because the polio vaccine was supposed to be a European plot to sterilize Muslims.
I noticed the states listed have heavy illegal populations.
Our government, people in it, deserve to be the ones whose families come in contact with the scourge for their greedy selfish sellout of US citizens.
A pox on them and their families.
LOL!
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