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Anti-vaccine nonsense spurred NY's largest outbreak in decades
Health officials in New York are cautiously optimistic that they have a large measles outbreak under control after tackling the noxious anti-vaccine myths and unfounded fears that fueled the disease's spread.
Since last fall, New York has tallied 177 confirmed cases of measles, the largest outbreak the state has seen in decades. It began with infected travelers, arriving from parts of Israel and Europe where the highly contagious disease was spreading. In New York, that spread has largely been confined to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. As measles rippled through those insular religious communities, health officials ran into members who were wary of outsiders as well as those who harbor harmful myths and fears about vaccines. This included the completely false-yet-pernicious belief that the measles vaccine causes autism.
To quash the outbreak, health officials met with rabbis and pediatricians in the community, who in turned urged community members to be vigilant and, above all, get vaccinated, according to The New York Times. "Good people, great parents were terrified," Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, founder of Darchei Noam yeshiva in Monsey in Rockland County, told the Times. Despite the fears, he insisted parents vaccinate their children. "They felt that I was asking to give their children something that would harm them."
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 19 2019, @06:23PM (2 children)
these anti-anti-vaxxers are ignorant, arrogant sycophants. they think by sucking up they are in the know when in fact they are the ones making people's kids invalids, for lack of a better term. if they really cared about science or people they would demand clean, third party tested vaccines with full accountability for the harm that is done. the numbers/rates of vaccine damage are not being reported/tabulated and people don't realize how many people's kids are being fucked up by their blind trust in these scum. it's not just about one doctor or one ingredient. this is about many things, none of which are being dealt with. just boot licking authoritarians trying to tell people what to do with their kids. let me explain something to you motherfuckers. i'm stockpiling ammo for you bitches and i'll have plenty of vaccines for your disease.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 19 2019, @06:30PM
I bet you are one who spreads fear that infants cant be vaccinated. Thus making it politically impossible to deal with the earlier waning maternal antibodies from vaccinated mothers. The age needs to be moved up to at least 9, if not 6 months.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 19 2019, @08:56PM
I am reminded of the words of Luke Skywalker. It is amazing. Every single thing you said in that paragraph is wrong.