Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 22, 2013 @12:04AM from the paying-the-piper dept.

DavidHumus writes "Some of the longer-term effects of the anti-vaccination movement of past decades are now evident in a dramatic increase in measles. From the article: 'A measles outbreak infected 1,219 people in southwest Wales between November 2012 and early July, compared with 105 cases in all of Wales in 2011. One of the infected was Ms. Jenkins, whose grandmother, her guardian, hadn't vaccinated her as a young child. "I was afraid of the autism," says the grandmother, Margaret Mugford, 63 years old. "It was in all the papers and on TV."'"

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Re:The heading is factually correct. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-22 00:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You mean the definition of "the plague" as opposed to "a plague". The two are not the same thing.
Re:Bad things happen when... by flyingfsck · 2013-07-22 01:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yup, billions of people go to church for their salvation.

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