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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @11:03AM (10 children)
Another moronic comment. But you can't fix stupid.
Why don't we go back to the world of polio? Only kids will be able to catch it too and only the weak will develop problems. At least by your idiotic reasoning.
Fuck. Living in a world that allows you too good of a standard of living and you forget how fucked up 100 years life used to be. All you "remember" is your glorified imagination of the past that you never lived in. Careful, or you'll start living your life in straw+clay+shit houses again. But it happened in Italy before a few times like that. Maybe you are overdue for another Dark Ages again.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @11:13AM (6 children)
About 1/3 of doctors in the US have seen a disease that looks exactly like polio, but isn't.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-mysterious-polio-like-disease-affecting-american-kids/381869/ [theatlantic.com]
(Score: 3, Touché) by kazzie on Thursday January 24 2019, @11:44AM (1 child)
1/3 of Child Neurologists (at a particular conference), but interesting, nonetheless.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @11:53AM
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday January 24 2019, @03:35PM (3 children)
That you've never seen one is due to outbreaks being preceded by several days of I think itching.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 24 2019, @03:45PM (2 children)
I was just a kid, and didn't keep a journal or anything - but I think there was a day or two of headache/nausea/lethargy, in the middle of which the spots began to appear. The spots don't itch at first, but after several hours, or a day, then they start itching. And, you can't go back to school til the spots are gone, and Mom won't let you out of the house because you're "sick", so all the kids drive Mother bug-fuck crazy. And, at that point, you learn the real danger: Mother may perform a VERY late term abortion on your ass!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:23PM (1 child)
Was this a peer reviewed journal?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:51PM
I peered into his window, and yep, there was a journal on the table.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Bot on Thursday January 24 2019, @12:56PM
> Why don't we go back to the world of polio?
Why don't we go back to hunt and gatherers?
My question is related to your post as much as your post is related to mine.
Account abandoned.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @02:33PM (1 child)
Ignorance must be bliss if you think that the measles are a major issue for the population. The vaccine for measles causes more injuries than the naturally occurring disease. How come in the 60's nobody was worried about the measles, ie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7zwNZOg8mE [youtube.com] . You are gonna whine about polio too? Polio can only be transmitted anal to oral, so I dunno maybe people should wash their hands or maybe we should be more careful about what to do with our waste water, eh? If the guy you are slamming is moronic, how is it that Italy not having the measles vaccine forced on people and the entire boot hasn't died?
8% not vaccinated for measles and they are the cause for the other 92% to get the measles, really? You can clan all day long that it takes the herd immunity, but if you have your magic stick to keep away the dreaded mild diseases, like measles and chicken pox, then you should be all protected and the not vaccinated are the ones at risk only, that is if your magic stick actually works, which is a dubious claim.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @03:12PM
Great video. The reality distortion field these miseducated/misinformed people live in is ridiculous. And they go around calling everyone else idiots...