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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: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday February 08 2019, @08:32PM
You call it an epidemic. They don't call it an epidemic. If you look at Article. 1 person in Seattle and 3 people in Portland. And when they added up all of Oregon & Washington -- 55 people. Not a lot. Millions of people in Seattle. Millions in Portland. And in those big cities -- 4 folks came down with measles. It's a nothing.
You want to see Wildfire? You don't want to see that one, believe me. I've seen what it can do. I visited Pleasure, California. What a name. It was no pleasure. They used to have houses, now it's just the floor. And the Chimney. People so badly hurt, people dieing.
I told them, look at Finland. They spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things and they don't have any problem. And when they do, it's a very small problem.