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posted by martyb on Thursday April 11 2019, @12:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the disease-outbreak-spotted dept.

If using the law to corral antivaxxers doesn’t work at first, try, try again. At least, that seems to be the lesson learned by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. On Tuesday, he declared a state of emergency and mandated residents of the Williamsburg neighborhood, where an outbreak of measles has been raging since last fall, get vaccinated for the viral disease. Those who choose not to will risk the penalty of a $1,000 fine.

https://gizmodo.com/new-york-city-orders-williamsburg-residents-to-get-vacc-1833917175


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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:22PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:22PM (#828155) Journal

    Actually, they died because their ancestors hadn't grown up exposed to the disease. Vaccination is sort of a work around, but it does allow those with weaker immunity to a disease to propagate. So shouldn't we reintroduce smallpox?

    OTOH, if technical civilization survives, immunity will be improved via gene-line alteration, and if it doesn't the survivors will live in such small groups that diseases that depend on large dense populations will die out. So perhaps the problem isn't worth worrying aboutl

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