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Health officials on Thursday confirmed the country's first measles death since 2003, and they believe the victim was most likely exposed to the virus in a health facility in Washington state during an outbreak there. The woman died in the spring; a later autopsy confirmed that she had an undetected measles infection, the Washington State Department of Health said in a statement. The official cause of death was announced as "pneumonia due to measles."
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 178 people from 24 states and the District were reported to have measles from Jan. 1 through June 26 of this year. Two-thirds of the cases, the CDC noted, were "part of a large multi-state outbreak linked to an amusement park in California."
Measles were effectively eliminated in the United States in 2000, according to the CDC. Health officials have said that the disease made a comeback recently, in part because of a growing number of adults deciding to delay or abstain from vaccinating their children. Last year brought the highest number of recorded measles cases since 2000, according to the CDC. Earlier this year, President Obama acknowledged the concerns some have about effects of vaccines but said: "The science is pretty indisputable." "You should get your kids vaccinated — it's good for them," Obama said. "We should be able to get back to the point where measles effectively is not existing in this country."
takyon: Celebrity critics recently denounced California's new mandatory vaccine law.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @08:40AM
I don't know. I could come with a model showing either way is superior with the right assumptions. We need data to constrain it.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday July 05 2015, @11:25AM
what that means is that if the City of Portland were to enforce electrical, fire or building codes, they would be tied up in court for twenty years.
Ron Jeremy's Club Sesso just outside downtown portland just shut down because they stand accused of bribing a fire marshall. I have no opinion either way however I was once a member; it was plainly apparent that it has grossly inadequate fire escapes.
The Backspace Cafe on Fifth and Couch shut down a few months after I pointed out all of its electrical faults to the baristas, then wrote a detailed, eight-page explanation of what a ground fault tester is, how to use it as well as why one should use it. I gave it to a barista then said "Give this to your owner".
I am dead certain that either backspace's owner, or the building's owner was bribing the fire marshall as well; the barista protested that they had monthly fire marshall inspections. I expect the fire marshall did turn up once a month, but if I did he never looked at any of the many quite severe electrical hazards.
There is a hallway in a certain building in Portland in which one can be locked in. There is no escape if you find yourself in that hall after close of business. However there is a blue "fire alarm", with instructions to pull it to unlock the door, in event of fire.
So you are a child and cannot read. You are a foreigner as is common in portland and you don't read english. You are blind. The hall is filled with smoke.
Oh I know, I'll read the fine manual! That will save me from dieing in a fire!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @12:30PM
That type of petty conspiracy shit is why it so hard to model this type of thing. So you agree then, noone can know the correct approach for a given area. I imagine it is even more complex in certain places outside the US.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 06 2015, @12:12AM
You allocate funds to all the palms you grease.
Its far worse in southern italy. I once met a northern italian; she justified her fascism by pointing out that southern italians are not productive workers.
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