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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday March 15 2016, @10:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the toxic-news dept.

From the (boneheaded) editor: My apologies. I pooched this one in a way that is exceptional, even for me. I humbly beg your forgiveness. The line for torches is on the left, and pitchforks is on the right. Please, move on to the next story and don't waste any further time on this one.

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cmn32480

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2016, @02:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2016, @02:51PM (#318512)

    http://graphics.wsj.com/infectious-diseases-and-vaccines/ [wsj.com]

    This shows better than anything why to get vaccinated. We went from nearly eradicating some diseases to them becoming a thing again.

    This seems to be a generational thing. "the greatest generation" knows. Ask them about how many brothers, sisters, and friends they lost to particular diseases. Ask them about quarantine houses. Diseases where it is not common knowledge what the symptoms are anymore (we have to look it up). When I was younger my grandmother would take us to the gravesites of her dead brothers and sisters. It was a special part of a cemetery. It was quite full of very old grave markers of children that died before they were 5.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2016, @05:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2016, @05:47PM (#318629)

    Interesting link. While I agree that vaccinations are probably a huge contributing factor to the decline in many of these diseases this does not necessarily mean it is the only reason alone why these diseases have been in decline. It could also be that an increased awareness of these diseases and how they spread has also improved our ability to detect and stop their spread through earlier detection and prevention. Things like disinfectants, advancements in the manufacturing of and improvements in the use of disinfectants to prevent the spread of a disease when it's present based on what we learn about it, improvements in our ability to prevent air born diseases in hospitals by improving ventilation systems and creating better quarantine systems, improvements in sanitation systems, etc... have all probably contributed as well.