SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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: 2) by DannyB on Friday January 18 2019, @09:05PM (4 children)
It's too bad that Darwin Awards cannot be conferred exclusively upon the Anti Vaxers, and have no impact on the rest of the sensible population.
Now if only someone would invent a natural consequence for flat earthers. And moon landing hoaxers.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Kalas on Friday January 18 2019, @10:20PM (2 children)
1) A Darwin Award winner must of course die. Refusing to vaccinate your kids is putting them at risk of death or other harm, not the parent.
2) Darwin Awards are never given to people who kill someone else in the course of their stupidity.
https://darwinawards.com/rules/ [darwinawards.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 18 2019, @11:27PM
I don't know, i guess it's kind of an honorary Darwin award, if your offspring dies, because of you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 19 2019, @01:41PM
Darwin Awards are for people who selectively remove themselves from the gene pool. Killing your children before they reproduce is a perfect strategy to accomplish just that.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday January 19 2019, @01:24PM
You don't want the Liability for your Tweets. Very irresponsible. And that's something that maybe will work. And, maybe it won't. Well, our Vaccine Companies are just like that. They want to be in business. But not take the liability. And our horribly corrupt Politicians let them do it. By setting up, it's called Vaccine Court. That one's a Ronnie Reagan number. And it's an absolute joke, it's a Kangaroo Court. Very hard to win in that one.
By the way, before the Vaccine Court. Folks could go to regular Court. And they were getting millions and millions of dollars there. And the Vaccine Companies, so many of them quit making the stuff. Not all. The one that was left hired the Crooked politicians. Said, "oh, give us a Crooked Court." And here we are. With so many folks very badly damaged!!!!