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'It will take off like a wildfire': The unique dangers of the Washington state measles outbreak
[...] "You know what keeps me up at night?" said Clark County Public Health Director Alan Melnick. "Measles is exquisitely contagious. If you have an under-vaccinated population, and you introduce a measles case into that population, it will take off like a wildfire."
[...] Anti-vaccination activists, for their part, contend that state officials are twisting facts to stoke public fear.
"It shouldn't be called an outbreak," Seattle-area mother Bernadette Pajer, a co-founder of the state's main anti-vaccine group, Informed Choice Washington, said of the measles cases, arguing that the illness has spread only within a small, self-contained group. "I would refer to it as an in-break, within a community."
[...] Clements eventually changed her mind, deciding to give her kids the shots after a doctor at a vaccine workshop answered her questions for more than two hours, at one point drawing diagrams on a whiteboard to explain cell interaction. He was thoughtful, factual and also "still very warm," she said.
[...] In Washington, state lawmakers supporting tougher vaccine requirements are mounting their second effort in the past three years to make it harder for parents to opt out of vaccinations.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mrpg on Friday February 08 2019, @06:21PM
When you have a child,
you have the son of the house and the whole street,
you have the one who rides in the carriage of the beggar woman
and the one in the car that pushes the English governess
When you have a child, you have so many children
that the street is full
and the square and the bridge
and the market and the church
and it's our any child when it crosses the street
and the car runs over him
and when he looks out on the balcony
and when he approaches the pool.
Andrés Eloy Blanco
Los hijos infinitos
https://www.poeticous.com/andres-eloy-blanco/los-hijos-infinitos [poeticous.com]