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Measles Outbreak That Started In California Expanding
CBS Baltimore ^ | January 22, 2015 | Christie Ileto

Posted on 01/23/2015 11:16:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A health warning. The extremely contagious measles virus is back. An outbreak that started at Disneyland is starting to sweep the country.

Christie Ileto has the push for children to get vaccinated.

Measles was thought to have been eliminated in the U.S. 15 years ago. Now its back, targeting those who haven’t been immunized.

The outbreak that started in California’s Disneyland is expanding. At least 75 cases of measles span six states.

“It’s scary to think the happiest place on Earth is infected with measles,” one Disney employee said.

For this Disney employee, knowing co-workers are infected is cause for concern.

Measles has a 21-day incubation period, meaning people  can travel far before they know they’re sick.

“We’re seeing the resurgence of measles because a lot of the parents are not getting their children vaccinated,” said Dr. Peter Andrews, Sinai Hospital.

Dr. Andrews says that problem is prime. In Maryland, all students K-12 must get two shots of the measles vaccine.

“It just didn’t make sense to me,” said one Annapolis mom.

In a revealing interview with WJZ, an Annapolis mom explained why she didn’t vaccinate her kids.

“I didn’t understand why a little human had to get so many drugs at one time,” she said.

Still, the vaccine proves very effective if given at two doses.

Doctors say the virus is highly contagious. For instance, if someone has the measles and doesn’t cover their mouth when they sneeze, they can pass it on to anyone standing nearby.

Symptoms like fever, cough and rash soon follow.

“The younger, the older, the immune compromised. Those are the three target areas that really can get sick and die,” said Dr. Andrews.

Most people who have already had the measles or got the vaccine are not at risk.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: disneyland; infect; measles; nocuations; outbreak; publichealth
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To: DoughtyOne
True...those who wouldn't/didn't protect themselves deserve what they get...

The BS is that the USA, for all practical purposes, had eradicated this disease...now we have what appears to be an outbreak that is beginning to spread across the USA...and no one is talking about "patient zero".

Good times coming...


41 posted on 01/23/2015 12:01:57 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Oliviaforever

Real Ones, These data points were “provided” to the “World Bank” probably BY the Countries Themselves(undoubtedly made up from Whole Cloth). I don’t believe that over 90% number for OUR country(Do YOU “trust” HHS, FDA or CDC I don’t).


42 posted on 01/23/2015 12:03:01 PM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: Oliviaforever

You truly are clueless...

Many of these “indigent” kids get FREE passes to these parks...

And stop saying “your” to me...those idiots who aren’t vaccinated are no relation to me.


43 posted on 01/23/2015 12:03:59 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Oliviaforever
They are bringing health hazards in we eliminated decades ago.

A friend of mine had to have her 1 year old surgically remove his lymph-nodes in the neck due to TB contacted at the local library. Yeah, it's an issue the same way as having someone suffering from Ebola coming in unchecked.

44 posted on 01/23/2015 12:05:15 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: gwgn02

yes. healthy people who don’t vaccinate are not the problem but they will be the whipping boys.

and some here already are blaming them.

if vaccines are so fantastic and “provide immunity” as they are claimed in every mantra about them, and you have your shots, you vaccine sheeple should never worry about catching anything. yet you bitch about the unvaccinated. why don’t your immunity shots fail you?

you don’t have a right to force squalene, thimerosal, other viruses they didn’t bother to filter out, formaldehyde and other toxic adjudivants into anyone else’s body except your own. many of these vaccines are now only produced off aborted fetal cell lines, they’ve gotten rid of the alternatives. you want to be big pharma’s bitches go ahead. let’them experiment on you. talk to the girls who’ve been killed and permanently damaged by gardisil, who they are nowpushing on younger girls, and also boys.talk to the thousands dead and who were healthy but now have polio in india from gates’ recent polio vaccine disaster. nobody gets held’tocany accountability. they don’t care b/c it’s not their body screwed up forever. they aren’t dead.


45 posted on 01/23/2015 12:05:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: US Navy Vet

I trust numbers from researches from the World Bank or WHO more than I do those from folks simply assuming a statistic on the internet.


46 posted on 01/23/2015 12:06:00 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

YOU ARE A SAP!


47 posted on 01/23/2015 12:06:41 PM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: SZonian

thank you, correct.


48 posted on 01/23/2015 12:06:55 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SZonian

I did not use the word “your.”


49 posted on 01/23/2015 12:07:11 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3249986/posts?page=37#37


50 posted on 01/23/2015 12:08:34 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Bogey78O

“Measles still needs a source. It won’t arise from nowhere. You need a carrier. If there’s no paper trail to connect the source it probably moved “in the shadows”.”

That is absolutely besides the point.

Instead, there are Americans who chose not to vaccinate their kids against measles and when they get the Measles, they depend on the government treat their kids for Measles.

Vaccinate and this will not be a problem.


51 posted on 01/23/2015 12:09:50 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

your statement assume all illegals coming from the south are mexican.

most certainly they are not, but from poorer latin american countries.


52 posted on 01/23/2015 12:11:48 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SZonian

Innocent children certainly do not “deserve what they get.”


53 posted on 01/23/2015 12:13:21 PM PST by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: SZonian

That was not to that specific post and in the post where “your” was used was intended to mean everyone as in “Keep Your Powder Dry” or “Educate your children.”


54 posted on 01/23/2015 12:13:44 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: DoughtyOne

show me on one bottle where vaccines guarantee 100% immunity.

show me where nobody ever gets damaged or killed by vaccines.

if they are so safe why has congress bent over to give the big pharma drug makers immunity if their vaccines rushed to production kill or permanently harm people?


55 posted on 01/23/2015 12:14:42 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

All nations in Central and South America have vaccination rates above 89%.


56 posted on 01/23/2015 12:16:29 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ve worked in Mexico and Nicaragua in health care. These countries do a very good job when it comes to vaccinating kids. They have limited health care resources so they concentrate them where they can do the most good and number one on this list is vaccination, the most cost-beneficial medical procedure you can name. And they have no patience for the kind of excuses anti-vax parents give here.


57 posted on 01/23/2015 12:16:55 PM PST by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: informavoracious

In the context of my comment, your comment doesn’t apply...I specifically applied qualifiers.

And I will concede your point that innocent children absolutely do not deserve what they get as a result of adult neglect (”wouldn’t/didn’t”)...the child has no say in the matter.


58 posted on 01/23/2015 12:18:05 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Oliviaforever

You are a patsy.

Where are you on people being able to decide for themselves what they will and won’t do for their own personal medical health.

I don’t have the right to force you to do something to your body you don’t want to and vice versa.

If I can do that, I can call the cops and have them disarm you because that’s what I want to feel safe from you, and to hell with what you want.


59 posted on 01/23/2015 12:18:51 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Oliviaforever

You still haven’t addressed the 11% who aren’t.

Or is that the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM that no one wants to talk about?


60 posted on 01/23/2015 12:19:50 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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