Measles deaths worldwide jumped 40% last year, health agencies say
Measles deaths worldwide jumped 40% last year, health agencies say
The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles deaths globally spiked by more than 40% last year.
Glad to have been born at a time when doctors recommendations were taken seriously. Feel really bad for these kids though. I wonder why it’s not considered child neglect or endangerment
67The problem with measles is that it is as infectious as covid and we need to rely on herd immunity (enough people vaccinated so it is harder for the virus to spread[1]) to contain it. So with less people vaccinating means even ones that did vaccinate could still get sick. They will likely not get as sick as without vaccine but that still sucks.
This is why this will suck for everyone.
[1] it is still our body to protect us, but different people have different strength of their immune system. This is why is infuriating hearing antivaxxers that there are people who still caught covid even when vaccinating and not realizing that they are the ones contributing to it.
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Andrew Wakefield should be in prison for the rest of his life.
36Get vaccinated kids
22This is the best summary I could come up with:
LONDON (AP) — Measles deaths globally spiked by more than 40% last year and cases rose after vaccination levels dramatically dropped during the pandemic, leading health agencies said Thursday.
It sickened 9 million children and killed 136,00, mostly in poorer countries, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report.
“The increase in measles outbreaks and deaths is staggering, but unfortunately, not unexpected given the declining vaccination rates we’ve seen in the past few years,” said CDC’s John Vertefeuille, said in a statement.
British health authorities warned in July that there was an extremely high risk of outbreaks in London, with some areas of the capital reporting that only 40% of children were vaccinated.
Immunization rates against measles in the U.K. have never fully recovered since spurious claims that linked the vaccine to autism were made by discredited British doctor Andrew Wakefield more than two decades ago.
No scientific studies have ever confirmed the link, but Wakefield’s research led to millions of parents worldwide abandoning the shot.
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8The world: Suffers a pandemic.
Conservatives: Vaccinating is bad!
Turns out conservatism was the real plague all along.
28Here in the United States we had increasing Measles outbreaks, and many of them in very liberal areas, well before the pandemic and the rise of Conservative anti-vaccine sentiment. It's mostly because some quack of a Doctor from the UK managed to convince a bunch of granola crunching idiots that vaccines caused autism.
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I’d be happy that stupid, stubborn assholes aren’t successfully passing on their genes, but of course, they’re doing it in the most painful, destructive way possible. I feel sorry for the kids, and any sensible grandparents who had to watch it happen.
5Mmmm. Yummy yummy disease. Slather it all over me.
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