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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Retired infectious disease doctor here, who has never personally seen a case of measles. The news of the measles outbreak and death of a child is a failure for public health. In 1983, measles was nearly eradicated, but due to funding cuts to immunization programs, it survived.

In 1991, the courts ordered the vaccination of children when their fundamentalist Christian parents refused during an outbreak in Philadelphia. In 2019, an outbreak in Brooklyn among a Hasidic Jewish community resulted in court orders. I doubt the same will happen this time.

If you are reading this thread, you have likely vaccinated your kids, but on the radar of yet another thing to worry about is polio. RFK Jr has spouted some nonsense about polio vaccines in the past. A person in NY got vaccine derived polio, which happens when an unvaccinated person picks up a harmless strain from the poop of a vaccinated person, and that harmless strain of polio bounces around from unvaccinated person to unvaccinated person until it mutates and can infect unvaccinated people. Even better, the original wild type polio is still infecting people in Afghanistan. I need a glass of wine. I think this administration will help unwind so many years of progress in immunizations in the U.S.  [/quote]

The largest outbreak of measles in the US in the recent past was in 2019 - 1249 cases - approximately 10% of the cases were in this who were vaccinated.

Many people over the age of 70 are not vaccinated bc it is believed they would have natural immunity at least that is what the CDC said  - maybe they have changed their mind? And back in 2011 another year with large outbreaks , there were calls for adults to get a measles booster and it floated around again 2019 and no doubt will begin again.

Sad fact - last year the CDC stats show that approximately 30 people died of chicken pox. It wasn’t an anomaly. People die in the US each year of infectious diseases, it just doesn’t make the news.

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