As the rate of vaccinations fall, measles cases are on the rise in the United States, and out of control in Europe. Measles is a highly contagious disease spread via the air and on surfaces. It can live outside the host for two hours, in which time it can infect those who are not immunized. Just being in a room where an infected person has been can result in infection. The chances of contracting the disease after exposure to the virus are very high. The fact that contagious persons appear perfectly well in the early stages of the disease exacerbates the problem.
As persons who are not immune to the measles virus travel from Europe to the United States (that includes US citizens on vacation in Europe), the number of cases increases, particularly in areas where vaccination rates have fallen below 90%, and herd immunity is less effective.
Herd immunity. Let’s review the concept. From Wikipedia:
Herd immunity (also called herd effect, community immunity, population immunity, or social immunity) is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, thereby providing a measure of protection for individuals who are not immune. In a population in which a large number of individuals are immune, chains of infection are likely to be disrupted, which stops or slows the spread of disease. The greater the proportion of individuals in a community who are immune, the smaller the probability that those who are not immune will come into contact with an infectious individual.
Individual immunity can be gained through recovering from a natural infection or through artificial means such as vaccination. Some individuals cannot become immune due to medical reasons [such as your very young grandchildren; minimum age for the MMR is 12 months]
and in this group herd immunity is an important method of protection. Once a certain threshold has been reached, herd immunity gradually eliminates a disease from a population. This elimination, if achieved worldwide, may result in the permanent reduction in the number of infections to zero, called eradication. This method was used for the eradication of smallpox in 1977 and for the regional elimination of other diseases. Herd immunity does not apply to all diseases, just those that are contagious, meaning that they can be transmitted from one individual to another. Tetanus, for example, is infectious but not contagious, so herd immunity does not apply.
Herd immunity is vulnerable to the free rider problem. Individuals who lack immunity, particularly those who choose not to vaccinate, free ride off the herd immunity created by those who are immune. As the number of free riders in a population increases, outbreaks of preventable diseases become more common and more severe due to loss of herd immunity. Individuals may choose to free ride for a variety of reasons, including the perceived ineffectiveness of a vaccine, believing that the risks associated with vaccines are greater than those associated with infection, mistrust of vaccines or public health officials, bandwagoning or groupthinking, social norms or peer pressure, and religious beliefs. Individuals are more likely to free ride if vaccination rates are high enough so as to convince a person that he or she may not need to be immune since a sufficient number of others already are.
There is also a common belief that measles is just a childhood disease, and not at all dangerous. The “I had measles, and I’m just fine.” is a common claim. To those people I can only say that while complications are fairly uncommon, when they do occur they can result in death and permanent disability.
Most otherwise healthy children recover from measles just fine, but about 30 percent of people with measles develop one or more complications.
Eight percent of children develop diarrhea (which can also appear earlier and less severely, as a symptom of the infection). Pneumonia occurs in 6 percent of measles cases and is the most common cause of death from measles complications in children.
Other, less common difficulties include hepatitis, myocarditis (inflammation of the heart), meningitis, encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), and – very rarely – other serious brain complications. Complications are more likely in children younger than 5 years old and adults 20 and older.
In pregnant women, measles can cause miscarriage, premature birth, or a low-birth-weight baby.
Before the measles vaccine was introduced, about 3 to 4 million people in the United States were infected with the disease each year. Of those, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 400 to 500 died. After the vaccine program began, the number of measles cases was reduced by 99 percent.
In this article in U.S. News, there is a list of the 25 counties in the U.S. that are at highest risk of a measles outbreak. Most are in metropolitan areas of our largest cities.
So far, the number of cases nationwide is below 1,000, although this is the worst outbreak in 20 years. In Europe it is much, much, worse. From the Daily Star U.K.:
The World Health Organisation said the rise in cases was “unprecedented” for a preventable disease.
They revealed they are rapidly ramping up their response to the outbreak, which has spread over two years, “based on the growing number of children and adults affected by and dying from the disease”.
WHO revealed today that, since the beginning of last year, more than 90% of countries across the continent have together reported over 100,000 measles cases and over 90 related deaths.
The WHO highlighted “the persistence of pockets of non-immunized or under-immunized individuals in many countries fuelling the continuing spread of measles.”
More than half a million UK children could be at risk of disease after missing crucial jab, children’s charity Unicef warned last month.
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Bad rain night and more to come today so gotta take vaccinated GGS out for lunch and a movie soooooo….
Y’all remember a few years back when idiot urban/suburban moms, during previous measles/chickenpox outbreaks, held ‘pox parties’? You know, one kid would get it so a gaggle of parents would get their kids together, have a tea and cookies event, and expose all of the kids to the measles or whatever. Sort of like setting a backfire to prevent a forest fire from spreading. Well it’s baaaa-aaaack:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/new-york-city-measles-parties-emergency-outbreak
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/438150-new-york-officials-warn-parents-to-stop-holding-measles-parties-amid-latest
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Oh yeah, and that idiot Robert Kennedy is egging them on. His own family members are speaking out against him publicly.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/08/robert-kennedy-jr-measles-vaccines-226798
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Since when have the Kennedys been thought of as anything more than a potential HBO reality show? Old Joe must have stood too close to radiation source when he was young.
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A big part of the problem is that young mothers and dads today have never seen the results of the diseases that vaccines have pretty much eradicated. They are prone to believe people who tell them that the vaccines are worse than the diseases, and that there is some conspiracy by drug companies to poison their kids for profit. And then there is Robert Kennedy who tells them that it wasn’t vaccines that got rid of the diseases, but better public health – diet, cleanliness etc.
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Their ******* idiots.
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Maybe it is lost somewhere in this article, but WHY are vaccination rates FALLING. I do understand that the RATE of global mental incapacity (chronic stupidity) is rapidly increasing, so I assume there is an inverse relation between the two. The more you become stupid, the less you get vaccinated.
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I hate to say it because I don’t want to insult anyone. I am only here to attempt education.
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Not sure they’d even understand that they’d been insulted.
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Why are so many vaccinated kids getting it?
I was vaccinated as a child. I remember standing in line at school for my shots.We were vaccinated for MMR, Smallpox, and Polio (sugarcube, yummm)and Diptheria. When I was 34 yo, I was living in Scotland, and DH and I decided to try to get pregnant when He returned from the Persian Gulf. He had been gone for a 9 month mission. I went to the Doc’s to get everything checked out and he tested me for MMR. 2 weeks later he called and said I needed a booster shot as I was not immune.
I think the shot isn’t as effective as thy say, and urge people to be tested just in case.
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In the beginning, the shot was not as effective as it is now. Now there are two injections given for full protection.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2019/04/20/born-in-the-1960s-the-cdc-says-you-may-need-a-measles-shot-before-traveling/#4702437247bf
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Vaccines don’t work on some people. Where did you see that many vaccinated kids today are getting the measles?
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Many, if not most, Gen X’ers had to be revaccinated as their vaccines were found to be not potent enough to be long-lasting. Wicked Son was in Jr or Sr year of high school and had to redo all his childhood shots.
So there is a “Big Pharma” link – “Big Pharma” tried too hard to protect the kids and went too far in diluting their vaccines.
My info comes from WS’s family doc, who stayed on top of his patient’s needs.
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It’s all a big scam to make money 1 Tim 6 : 10 . Measles is not life threatening especially in adults . The vaccines have aluminum if not mercury no amount is safe their nervous systems are not nearly developed enough to handle multiple vaccines . An infant or child has a much greater chance of having their nervous systems ruined from vaccines than dying from measles .
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You don’t know what you are talking about. 1. Measles can be life threatening; I have personal experience with that from the 1960’s. Did you bother to read this post? No? That’s what I thought.
2. Any medical procedure has side effects in some people. I have a friend who died having his tonsils removed.
3. You take in a lot of aluminum in your everyday diet. Beef, poultry, ham, eggs and fresh fruits have 1 milligram or less of aluminum per kilogram of food, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The aluminum in different types of fish ranges between 0.1 and 6 milligrams per kilogram. Most fresh vegetables contain 1 to 4 milligrams per kilogram, except for spinach, which has five times more. Tea leaves are one of the rare plants with a very high aluminum content, but not all of it leeches into the water when you prepare a cup of tea. You may get as much as 3.6 milligrams of aluminum per liter of steeped tea. This is about the same amount as fruit juice, but it’s four times higher than coffee and other beverages.
Aluminum-containing additives are used as leavening agents in baked goods, as emulsifying agents in processed foods, and as anti-caking ingredients in powders. Except for an additive called bentonite, you can find them listed in the ingredients because their names include the word aluminum. Because of the high amount of aluminum in baking powder, some baked goods have as much as 400 milligrams per kilogram. Processed cheese ranges from 297 to 695 milligrams of aluminum per kilogram. Pickles, cocoa and nondairy creamer are also higher in aluminum, but they’re only in the range of 39 to 94 milligrams per kilogram. In spite of the higher values, the amount of aluminum in processed foods is considered safe, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
4. The MMR vaccine (given for measles/mumps/rubella) has never contained mercury (thimerosal).
Some influenza vaccines do contain thimerosal.
Please provide links to medical studies showing that children’s nervous systems are damaged by vaccines.
It is incorrect information like this that is causing our current problems with measles outbreaks. Please become better informed before spreading disinformation.
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PS: There is more aluminum in mother’s milk and baby food than there is in a MMR vaccine.
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When it’s in vaccines it bypasses the digestive system all the aluminum is absorbed by the infant and goes directly into the bloodstream . When in foods etc most is not absorbed by the body . Your very uninformed . Check out above comment to you .
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THE PRO-ALUMINUM ARGUMENT
Adding insult to injury, prior to the dangerously misleading 2011 Mitkus study, the FDA admitted they allowed the use of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines simply because they “assumed” they were safe. The most prominent pro-vaccine, pro-aluminum safety argument you will hear involves the amount of toxic materials in vaccines. According to its website, the FDA claims the amount of aluminum present in vaccines is low, therefore not harmful. They defend the use of aluminum in vaccines, stating that it is one of the most common metals found in nature and we get much more aluminum exposure from our air, food and water than we do from vaccines. Therefore, the amount of aluminum in vaccines is not dangerous. This reasoning however, is far from scientific, because the aluminum found naturally in the earth’s crust is tightly bound to other elements, making it inert and not bioavailable. The different routes of entry are not interchangeable for assessing toxic impacts. Inhaling and ingesting aluminum are not the same as injecting it. Aluminum injected via vaccination bypasses the protective barriers of the gastrointestinal tract and mucous membranes, entering directly into the muscle where it can enter the bloodstream and lymph, thus redistributing and accumulating in the bones, lungs and brain. It is absurd to assume that injected aluminum is safe because it is introduced in lesser quantity than say, ingested aluminum, 99.7 percent of which is not absorbed by the body.
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I also follow this doctor on YouTube, as it happens, but this was put out by the NY Post:
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How many times have we walked through an old cemetery and seen all the graves of babies and children? I believe there is one primary reason that infant and childhood mortality has been reduced so drastically. Vaccinations.
Yes, we have better medicines, cleaner lives, less malnourishment. But more than any other reason, more children live because of vaccinations.
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That, and antibiotics.
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