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New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine

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

mrpg writes:

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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:27PM (#828284)

    First, there isn't a single reference on that page so I have no idea where those numbers are coming from. There isn't even an author to hold responsible, so I don't consider it a reliable source.

    goal of eradicating this disease.

    Read carefully, they talk about "eliminating" instead of "eradicating":

    Although 3 of 6 World Health Organization regions have established measles elimination targets, measles elimination goals are not well defined. In general, disease elimination has been defined as the reduction of incidence in a population to zero. However, measles is so contagious that zero incidence is difficult to achieve and sustain because the risk of imported measles remains while measles is endemic in any country. Also,imported cases will occasionally result in short chains of indigenous transmission unless a country achieves 100% immunity. Therefore, the United States currently uses the absence of endemic measles (i.e., no indigenous chains of transmission persisting for ⩾1 year) as the programmatic goal for measles elimination.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15106085 [nih.gov]

    This is a huge difference, because eradication means there is no longer any excuse for the vaccine. Elimination means buying the vaccine for every new generation forever.

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