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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, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @04:15PM (1 child)
The earth isn't a "ball" at all. It is a flat planar disc that is slightly concave towards the sun. Just concave enough so that solar insolation is exactly the same at every point. There is a reason that "flat-earthers" is a grass roots phenomenon spreading around the globe.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 09 2019, @11:44PM
Now THAT is how you troll! I love the last sentence especially :) Modded up because I want people to see this.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...