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Emergency declared near Portland for measles outbreak in anti-vaccine hotspot
Health officials in Clark County, Washington have declared a public health emergency for a measles outbreak in an area with a high rate of unvaccinated children.
[...] Nearly eight percent of children in Clark County were exempt from standard vaccination for the 2017-2018 school year, according to state records reported by the Washington Post. Breaking down that eight percent, about seven percent of kids had personal or religious exemptions and the remaining one percent or so had medical exemptions. Factoring in the rest of the population, the county is below the 92 percent to 94 percent range some experts consider required to prevent the spread of highly contagious diseases such as measles.
[...] “It’s really awful and really tragic and totally preventable,” Peter J. Hotez told the Post. Hotez is a professor of pediatrics and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. “Portland is a total train wreck when it comes to vaccine rates,” he added.
[...] Correction: This article has been updated to correct the state in which Clark County resides. It is in Washington State, not Oregon.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday January 24 2019, @03:33PM
Heroin addicts are unable to eat much other than sugar. It's quite common for them to eat naught but ice cream. My lady dines only on artificially fruit juice concentrate. Doubtlessly she gets lots of Vitamin C but that does her no good as White Blood Cells require protein.
Vitamin B12 is required to transcribe DNA to Protein. It's widely regarded as necessary only for production of Red Blood Cells, but that's because they have the shortest lifetime of any human cell.
"Sarah" - not her real name - will happily eat real food when I specifically give it to her. I left her quite a lot of truly tasty and nutritious food at work three or four days ago but even so, she has not picked it up yet.
She agreed that she would welcome my visit while she was "working" last Friday night but we were unable to connect as she kept getting dates all night long, each far away from wherever we at first agreed to meet. In the end, she advised me to go to my office so I wouldn't be stuck in the cold all night after the trains stopped running.
She's at risk of death from exposure as "Getting Well" usually leads her to pass out. To shoot up out in the cold usually wakes her up, but one time she woke up in the back of an ambulance after an EMT saved her life with Narcan.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]