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State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes CBS News:
The governor of Washington state declared a state of emergency Friday over a measles outbreak that has sickened dozens of people in a county with one of the state's lowest vaccination rates. Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement that the outbreak in Clark County "creates an extreme public health risk" that could spread throughout the state...
Clark County Public Health has confirmed 30 measles cases since January 1 and identified another nine suspected cases. Twenty-six of the confirmed cases were people who were not immunized for measles, the agency said... Only 77.4 percent of all public students there complete their vaccinations, according to state records cited by the Oregonian...Most of the confirmed cases -- 21 -- were with children between 1 and 10 years old. Eight cases involved people 11 to 18 years old, and one case was someone 19 to 29.
Time magazines also reports that authorities in the neighboring states of Oregon and Idaho "have issued warnings to residents."
In November the World Health Organization warned that measles cases worldwide had jumped more than 30% from 2016 to 2017, according to AFP, "in part because of children not being vaccinated."
Clark County Public Health has confirmed 30 measles cases since January 1 and identified another nine suspected cases. Twenty-six of the confirmed cases were people who were not immunized for measles, the agency said... Only 77.4 percent of all public students there complete their vaccinations, according to state records cited by the Oregonian...Most of the confirmed cases -- 21 -- were with children between 1 and 10 years old. Eight cases involved people 11 to 18 years old, and one case was someone 19 to 29.
Time magazines also reports that authorities in the neighboring states of Oregon and Idaho "have issued warnings to residents."
In November the World Health Organization warned that measles cases worldwide had jumped more than 30% from 2016 to 2017, according to AFP, "in part because of children not being vaccinated."
What could possibly go wrong?
It would be a good beginning.
The bitch has thousands on her conscience.
Seriously. Round up these anti vaxxers and dump them in a mass grave with all the mad cows.
30 cases in 26 days in a State of 7.4 million people is a state of emergency? And probably most of those people who got the measles were in a family who CHOSE not to be vaccinated? AND according to the WHO "In developed countries, death occurs in one to two cases out of every 1,000 (0.1â"0.2%)." I could see how it would be concerning, but "emergency" seems a bit steep.
They contain mercury which is a neurotoxin. They also cause autism. This is just fake news to attack people who know the truth, there is no measles outbreak happening.
the 10's of thousands of medical unknowns flowing across our open southern border and it is no wonder measles, tb and such are making a real come back after almost disappearing in the US.
;)
I have no issue with legal immigration, I just ask that all immigrants come through the turnstile. Maybe that is to much to ask in today's PC world.
Just my 2 cents
If you are stupid enough to be antivax, then nature will take your children away.
That is all.
Hopefully, the energy from this outcry can be harnessed to push for better education about vaccines in areas where superstition and ignorance have lead to such a circumstance.
This general area is also a hotbed for anti-fluoridation idiots.
I just want to ignore the whole thing. If someone who chose not to get vaccinated gets sick, just give them some healing crystals and leave them alone.
But unfortunately, not everyone who gets sick will be by choice. The vaccines aren't 100%, so some people may get sick even with immunization. Some infants are too young to get vaccinated, and they can easily die if they get sick. Some people have medical conditions that prevent immunization, and they are also at serious risk.
So much as I would like to ignore the sick and tell them "I told you so," we just can't do that. Also, it's not fair to not take care of kids just because their parents are stupid.
It's time to say get a vaccine or don't go to public schools. The only exceptions should be kids with compromised immune systems that can't be vaccinated. If parents don't like it, they can save the schools money and homeschool.
A family we're friendly with have the most wonderful daughter, who went through a brain tumor and had chemotherapy until her brain was developed enough to use focused radiation to get rid of the thing. She's fine now, but for years she was immuno-compromised. An un-vaccinated child in school could have been a disease vector leading to her death.
People all around you have chemo, get autologous bone marrow transplants and spend a week with no immune system, etc. During that, your unwillingness to vaccinate can kill them. Not that killing your own kid is any nicer. Please get your family all of their shots.
Bruce Perens.
There are 474,643 people in Clark County.
The governor is not communicating perfectly, but he is helping people understand the need for immunization.
they are lucky that their kids weren't hit with some really nasty...like polio.
Why some people doubt the 200+ years of science and technology behind vaccinations is beyond me. In two centuries, vaccines have been successfully used on numerous occasions to eradicate diseases (like polio) from the US and to limit or control other diseases (like measles).
Frankly, if these parents do not trust vaccinations, then why bother sending their children to make use of other modern medical facilities?
Only multi-dose vaccines contain Mercury. You can use single-dose vaccines.
https://thehill.com/opinion/he...
Pediatric neurologist Dr. Andrew Zimmerman originally served as the expert medical witness for the government, which defends vaccines in federal vaccine court. He had testified that vaccines do not cause autism in specific patients.
Dr. Zimmerman now has signed a bombshell sworn affidavit. He says that, during a group of 5,000 vaccine-autism cases being heard in court on June 15, 2007, he took aside the Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers he worked for defending vaccines and told them he’d discovered “exceptions in which vaccinations could cause autism.”
You mean granola and transgenderism isn't stopping this?
So what ? Measles is not a deadly decease, it is short term self resolving... Of course big pharma have its own agenda ($$$) like a lot of other non life threatening decease (flu!). Viruses actually bring DNA to our body and make us stronger and evolve (search PubMed!). If vaccines work so well, why is there a problem for the vaccinated persons / lobby? Oh yes... Vaccines immunology works only from 1 to 10 years depending on witch ones (PubMed again) - so vaccines protect partially, badly, for a short to medium period of time, with quite a risk of getting other issues (see vaccine full documentation, not the panthlet, and there is +1B U$ government fund for vaccines injuries compensation in the the US!). I am not an anti-vax, all my kids have there vaccines - but I did a LOT or research on official companies (they publish!!!), PubMed and government websites, and schedule different order and witch one (the ones that are actually useful) at what time to put them.
And for Measles specifically, even on official government webpages and Google, it is NOT life threatening and resolve quickly by itself... Don't get the emergency if not just to crash again the liberty of people to chose...
= Short-term: resolves within days to weeks
= The disease spreads through the air by respiratory droplets produced from coughing or sneezing.
= Measles symptoms don't appear until 10 to 14 days after exposure. They include cough, runny nose, inflamed eyes, sore throat, fever, and a red, blotchy skin rash.
= There's no treatment to get rid of an established measles infection, but over-the-counter fever reducers or vitamin A may help with symptoms.
Andrew Wakefield et al concocted a scheme based on "litigation based testing":
Clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare ... Who perpetrated this fraud? There is no doubt that it was Wakefield. Is it possible that he was wrong, but not dishonest: that he was so incompetent that he was unable to fairly describe the project, or to report even one of the 12 children's cases accurately? No. A great deal of thought and effort must have gone into drafting the paper to achieve the results he wanted: the discrepancies all led in one direction; misreporting was gross. Moreover, although the scale of the GMC's 217 day hearing precluded additional charges focused directly on the fraud, the panel found him guilty of dishonesty concerning the study's admissions criteria, its funding by the Legal Aid Board, and his statements about it afterwards.
and
In a BMJ follow-up article on 11 January 2011,[24] Deer said that based upon documents he obtained under Freedom of information legislation, Wakefield—in partnership with the father of one of the boys in the study—had planned to launch a venture on the back of an MMR vaccination scare that would profit from new medical tests and "litigation driven testing"
Yep - the "father" of the "vaccines cause autism" HOAX seems to have agreed to split the profits with the families of the children in his "study".
How much were those projected profits?
Well, now that you asked:
the $43 million predicted yearly profits would come from marketing kits for "diagnosing patients with autism" and that "the initial market for the diagnostic will be litigation-driven testing of patients with AE [autistic enterocolitis, an unproven condition concocted by Wakefield] from both the UK and the US"
Finally:
In October 2012, research published in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, identified Wakefield's 1998 paper as the most cited retracted scientific paper, with 758 citations, and gave the "reason for retraction" as "fraud".
The Lancet article that Wakefield used to start this scam has been retracted.
A more fitting action would be to send her to the affected county to care for the infected where she can see firsthand how bad measles really is. I'd offer her the vaccine before she goes too - it's amazing how many people actually believe in science when their survival is on the line regardless of what they may say publicly.
Ultimately that might undo some of the damage she has caused, far more so than simply putting her in jail.
you apparently can't immunize against stupidity and willful ignorance
We immunize against stupidity through education. Like any immunization, it's not 100% effective but it provides herd immunity since educated friends and family also help you avoid stupid mistakes. Willful ignorance is the real problem.
What you said seems correct to me. But...
People who are scared of Mercury can have vaccines without Mercury.
Maybe we should not eat tuna.
So how are all those illegal aliens working out for you on the west coast? Standby for more diseases, lots more of diseases.
The best I can say about so-called anti-vaxxers is that they are ignorant and uneducated. But I'll give them the benefit of doubt. Perhaps some do hold religious or moral objections to vaccinations. Well and good. But there should be consequences associated with behavior that affects society in general. Think of drunk driving laws. If a child who has not been vaccinated contracts a disease the vaccine could prevent, the parent(s) should be prosecuted for criminal endangerment. In fact, it should be as automatic as failing a sobriety test. If your kid gets measles and has not been vaccinated, you should face fines and possible jail time, increasing with successive occurrences. Please don't toss out the red herring of health care access. Lack of it does not apply to early childhood vaccines.
when child mortality was 66%, only one in three children got to see their 5th birthday? The problem is that these idiots are not old enough to remember polo and iron lungs.
Americans have it easy today. Women don't die in child birth in any significant numbers. You don't need to have 6 babies to see 3 reach thier teenage years. Almost no one gets horrible diseases that kill, cripple, disfigure, and often cause unending pain for the remainder of your life. When every person either had family or friends that they watched contract horrible diseases like polio, they were scared shitless of suffering the same fate. When the first vaccines came out, people lined up around the block and people fought shortages to keep up with demand. It was hailed as a miracle, and people couldn't believe they might finally be free of these unimaginable afflictions plaguing humanity.
Nowadays, with vaccinations keeping these diseases under control, very few have had a family member who has been crippled, had a lifelong friend die, or even seen the afflicted in person. They lack the imagination necessary to place themselves in this world lost to medical progress and have become complacent, ignorant, and lazy with regard to the seriousness of the situation. It's absolutely disgusting.
that's what compulsory education is for. What's hard to immunize against is propaganda. There's a big anti-science movement in America being pushed by corporate interests that don't want to pay for things like public health.
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To me this seems like overreacting, as measles did me no permanent harm. My ancestors were exposed to measles from way back. Other groups of people have found it fatal. Even in my group (North-Western Europeans) measles has been associated with massive increases in still-births and deformed births. And I'm not sure just how non-fatal it was. That I lived through it and my ancestors did, doesn't say how many didn't, even as recently as one generation back.
I suspect what should be done is strict quarantine with strong enforcement and forbidding any non-vaccinated child from going to school. But perhaps the governor didn't have an option to do that, and *could* declare a state of emergency.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
In the US, vaccination programs kill a few persons per decade, mostly by allergic reaction to eggs, the medium used to grow the vaccine. Each year tens of persons are permanently injured. As a result of legal suits resulting from such deaths and injuries, makers and administrators of vaccines were abandoning the business so in 1986 Congress created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. You cannot sue anybody at all alleging an adverse outcome from vaccination. Instead you must file a claim that is judged by the Board. The delay is years, about 3/5 of the claims are denied, there is no appeal, the average successful claim pays about 3/4 * $1M.
I promote vaccines as by far the best choice for anyone (except in case of known immunosuppression.) My children received all the recommended doses. I myself got the measles as a young child, just like almost everyone born before 1957. I remember the epidemics in a suburb of a large city: thousands of children with the rash. Tens of them died each year. Then the vaccine came, and the measles vanished.
Nevertheless, I can understand why someone who is informed may decide that the risk to their child from the vaccine is unacceptable, especially if enforced by government edict. In 1976 the US Center for Disease Control [that was the name then] deliberately lied to the public about their scientific and medical errors connected to the swine flu vaccination program. As long as I live, I will never trust what CDC says without independent verification.
Lets have a big round of applause for the anti-vaxx shitheads who've managed to help bring back a dreadful and deadly disease through their own ignorance and stupidity.
So yeah, don't listen to 99.99999999% of all epidemiologists, doctors, and researchers, instead listen to a known genius like Jenny McCarthy, a washed up MTV dating game hostess.
Her film 'career' (cough) in such amazing works such as Diamonds, Scream 3, and Santa Baby means that she surely knows better than all those egghead scientists. I mean really, have you seen the way they dress? Lab coats are soooo utilitarian.
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What's so funny, dude?
Yes, the people of Mexico should have a proper level of concern if there is an outbreak of illness among their northern neighbors that could affect them.
I would like to see refusing to vaccinate your kids defined as child abuse. CPS rates you as an unfit parent and takes your kids away.
All of the antivax cranks in this thread are ACs. What does this say about their willingness to debate?
Itâ(TM)s likely they believe(d) measles was eradicated, that vaccination is evil, and that they were too superior to catch anything - disease is for others.
I saw a comment, probably from twitter that said:
"If my kid is not allowed to bring a peanut butter sandwich to school, your kid should not be allowed to bring an easily preventable disease to school."
That pretty much covers it.
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.
I guess they want to wage a genocidal war on the measels virus. Will they blame the brown invaders who are entering the country illegally and bringing in the disease. No they blame white people for not vacinating.
No matter what happens in the world, it is all the fault of white people. The only solution to white privelege is to give the kindly government and the multibillion dollar corporate media more and more granular controll over everyones life.
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Shit like this is their damned fault. You may not be able to legislate morality or religion, but you can for damned sure legislate criminal stupidity.
Give people one last chance to voluntarily vaccinate their kids, and after that, jail time, a fine, and you vaccinate the kid(s) anyway, by court order.
They appear to be overreacting. A measles outbreak does not warrant such a hysterical response.
check this out, novel concept here
maybe you can turn over some of those antivaxers out there if you package the vaccines in simpler ways ( you know like they used to do in the past), like one at a time, and not 34 at a time in one shot, heck, if you would prioritize some of them, like, the most common things you might get, maybe you could convert even more
theres no reason for those single vaccine shots against 54 different things, including turning into a patriots fan. No reason at all
Something seems kind of off here, I'm not quite sure what though.
1) I get Idaho warning it's citizens, it's around six hours via I-84 and US-97 and I doubt there is much air travel between the area affected and Idaho but why is Oregon not taking this more seriously if Washington is - given Clark county is part of the Portland Oregon Metro area (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_metropolitan_area)? This seems strange to me.
2) Basic science tells me that causation does not prove there is correlation so I'm wondering if there could be something else going on here and not just the vaccination rate of Clark County? It seems like all of the evidence, while it points at the vaccinations is a bit circumstantial. Also, to be clear I'm not disputing that vaccination is good I'm just wondering if there is something else going on in addition as the vaccination rate seems to be a simplistic explanation and it doesn't take into account the rest of the Portland metro area.
Just put her in my bed. After one night with me, she'll wonder what she did wrong in the entirety of her life to be forced to sleep with me. And I get laid. Win/win for everyone involved.
Enough said.
Doesn't matter what the bible says. You're trying to FORCE RELIGION ON ME. You don't get to. This is 'murika. Go back to Europe where that kind of shit is acceptable, and where it started.
https://smile.amazon.com/Deadl...
The title is terrible. Pretend instead it's "A history of the science and politics of vaccines."
I started reading it and ended up staying up late into the night until I finished.
It explains in detail all those things about vaccines that you'd vaguely heard of including things like the "vaccine court." and the vaccine panic in the 1880's is also interesting to read about.
Buy a copy, read it, then pass it to a friend.
"Those Opposed To Scientific Consensus Bolstered By 'Illusion of Knowledge'"
and
"State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak "
on the same page, says it all I think.
How is the parent "Insightful". He said nothing put a moronic mainstream TROPE. Look at the figures, at
least 4 people WERE vaccinated. So, vaccines are not 100%. And they carry side effects. You might
be just some moronic tween in his bedroom, but your grandparents got measles and survived just fine. And
they had BETTER all around immunity for it. The problem is when too many people get vaccinated, there's
not enough better, NATURAL immunity left in the "herd".
You slashdotters, always so quick to pipe up on a subject that you've obviously never studied. News for
pretend wanna be nerds is more like it.
In a expat facebook group here where in Costa Rica, where child vaccination is thankfully mandatory, a woman actually asked for tips and tricks on how she could fake the paperwork so that her kids wouldn't be vaccinated (because shes sooooo informed), but could still go to public kindergartens and schools.
I'd just like to point out that general anti-vaxers are bad enough - but many of them at least proudly announce it, and homeschool their kids and all that.
But now they actually seem to be trying to smuggle their risky kids with fake papers into the vaccinated population. This is a nother level of egoistical BS.
Yes, ACTUAL herd immunity refers to immunity from those who had measles and ended up with a lifelong immunity not from false immunity from a vaccine. It actually was more effective because if 62% of a population caught measles, it was found to have stopped spreading and provided immunity for the other 38%. Meanwhile, these precious vaccines need multiple doses through your whole life and must have a 95% vaccinate rate to only protect 5% of the population.
Kurzgesagt has a good explanation of what measles does to you.
https://youtu.be/y0opgc1WoS4