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Anti-vaccine nonsense spurred NY's largest outbreak in decades
Health officials in New York are cautiously optimistic that they have a large measles outbreak under control after tackling the noxious anti-vaccine myths and unfounded fears that fueled the disease's spread.
Since last fall, New York has tallied 177 confirmed cases of measles, the largest outbreak the state has seen in decades. It began with infected travelers, arriving from parts of Israel and Europe where the highly contagious disease was spreading. In New York, that spread has largely been confined to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. As measles rippled through those insular religious communities, health officials ran into members who were wary of outsiders as well as those who harbor harmful myths and fears about vaccines. This included the completely false-yet-pernicious belief that the measles vaccine causes autism.
To quash the outbreak, health officials met with rabbis and pediatricians in the community, who in turned urged community members to be vigilant and, above all, get vaccinated, according to The New York Times. "Good people, great parents were terrified," Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, founder of Darchei Noam yeshiva in Monsey in Rockland County, told the Times. Despite the fears, he insisted parents vaccinate their children. "They felt that I was asking to give their children something that would harm them."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 18 2019, @07:56PM (5 children)
Let's call it as it is. They're not so much anti-vax as pro-epidemic.
(Score: 5, Informative) by ikanreed on Friday January 18 2019, @08:24PM (3 children)
That's completely unfair. The particular polio nutters in Pakistan are pro-endemic.
(It's worth noting those peoples' conspiracy theories about vaccines being a front for the CIA to spy on them and collect their DNA are totally based in reality [theguardian.com])
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 18 2019, @10:03PM (1 child)
Damn the CIA for that.
Seriously, killing off Polio was worth so much more than anything that the CIA was going to gain.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 18 2019, @10:10PM
Try telling the CIA that.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 20 2019, @02:18PM
Supposedly they found him. Supposedly Obama's SEALs killed him. And supposedly, buried at sea. But, where are the pictures of all that? Or, any of it? Not on their Instagram. And I said, bring me the Hard Copy. But I get the run around. Like it never happened -- a total Fake!
I'm from New York City. Great town. But we had a horrible epidemic. Called AIDS. Very big thing in New York. And this was before it was a thing in Africa. But, so interesting, it became so big just after the Blood Bank went to the gays. Did the Study on the gays of the Experimental Hepatitis B Shots. Sponsored by Jimmy Carter's C.D.C. And suddenly, so many of our gays were getting very sick. And dieing. Absolutely dropping like flies. And I've heard they did these experiments in other Cities too. San Francisco. L.A. And Chicago.
And we have the "tape" of Maurice Hilleman. Doctor from Merck. And of Merck. Saying, he looked into the Polio shots, the ones they were making at Merck. The so-called Live Virus Vaccine. Shots that went out to millions of folks. And they were full of SV40 -- Cancer Virus. And, leukemia (Blood Cancer) virus. And saying "So we brought African Greens in and I didn't know we were importing the AIDS Virus at the time." And his friends having a huge laugh over that one. When I was a kid, nobody knew from leukemia. Very rare. And now it's exploding. And so many folks getting Cancer now. And Dr. Hilleman says how he did, they call it the killed virus vaccine. Also known as the Salk Vaccine. But, the SV40 isn't killed. It's mostly killed, but not totally. 99.99%. Sounds like a lot, unless you're a Germophobe like me. And they're still doing that one. So interesting! But, very scarey. youtu.be/rSc8mJtem0k [youtu.be]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 20 2019, @01:04PM
"In New York, that spread has largely been confined to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities." The Article.
Look, I'm from New York. We have more Jews than anyplace. And a lot of our wonderful Jews are Orthodox. But if all the Orthodox folks got sick, that's not an epidemic. Because it's not that many people. The Article doesn't call it an epidemic. And even the Fake News New York Times doesn't call it an epidemic. You're trying to scare folks over a nothing.