Prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, it killed more than 400 Americans per year, with children being the most vulnerable. Due to childhood vaccination, deaths from measles were nearly entirely eliminated in the US in the 1990s.
The rise in antivax rhetoric is killing children.
The rise in antivax rhetoric is killing children.
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It's heartbreaking in so many ways.
"A young child has died of measles in Ontario, marking the first death in the province from the highly contagious virus in more than 10 years, a Public Health Ontario report confirms.
The child, who was under the age of 5, was not immunized against the virus"
"A young child has died of measles in Ontario, marking the first death in the province from the highly contagious virus in more than 10 years, a Public Health Ontario report confirms.
The child, who was under the age of 5, was not immunized against the virus"
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Why are people?
And are you willing to volunteer to be one of those victims?
B) that kid deserved to live. Refusing to vaccinate is, *at* best, child abuse, and in this case is effectively murder.
I can’t wait to hear your — no doubt — compassionate and thoughtful argument for dismissing those.
You're doing your part then, shit-stick.
Therefore it make sense to target it now.
This one death is a tragic reminder that we are on a very, very dangerous course.
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/3/suppl_1/916/2637718?login=false
Regardless, you know that people can be concerned about more than one thing at a time? Or, you just sea lioning?
I no longer open the door to Christmas carollers.
For a time, I thought we had also eliminated polio, but I guess it still has enclaves in Africa.
Type 2 and 3 poliovirus serotypes have been eliminated from the wild, but two countries remain endemic for Type 1: Afghanistan and Pakistan.
(Man we suck as a species at global scale - it's really just politics, not resources).
We’ve had all those vaccine programs running for ages, and the only diagnosis on the rise are those that didn’t exist just a few decades ago.
There’s just no viable Memento Mori here 🤷♂️😉
Vaccinate your damn kids.
"in Toronto, the percentage of seven-year-olds fully vaccinated for measles dropped from 80.2 per cent in the 2019-2020 school year to 38.9 per cent in the 2021-2022 school year."
Our COVID shots were really well managed -basically got texts to set an appt and boom, done for free.
What kind of a world have we made where we stopped caring for each other to this degree?
I really think there's two things we all need as we shape our identities - people who know how to model for us how to offer service to our communities, and also show us how to keep going when that gets very hard.
I think we're all struggling with the last bit.
What do we do?
Call them out, do not let them feel comfortable in their anti-vaxxing beliefs and actions. Make them actually SEE their choices aren't acceptable.
Let them get sick, go to the hospital, etc. They only understand and care about what affects them personally.
Family I don't speak with much but care deeply about, my nieces who are at constant risk - it's awful.
There are so many fires to put out that had no right to be set...
Global vaccination programs and improved post-exposure care have greatly reduced that, although there's still work to do.
From:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5847a2.htm
Why would people want to risk that kind of horror?
That's a hell of a track record of "THIS IS PREVENTABLE"
(Which is still a hell of a track record)
(Filter for "B05" to get just measles counts)
Our reality has become some form of algorithmically enhanced clickbait stupidity, because hey!, that’s what sells advertising.
Please have bail ready.
But on the other hand a movement led by Jenny McCarthy who is best known for being a Playboy model.
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