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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.
30 cases in 26 days in a State of 7.4 million people is a state of emergency?
Exactly. It would make so much more sense to wait, and let the situation spiral out of control before acting.
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.
Actually, Clark County is in the middle of Washington's opium country. Don't trust those vaccinations made by 'the man'. But hand me the needle with some unknown mixture of heroin and Fentanyl.
Have gnu, will travel.
Vaccines haven't contained mercury for many years. Fake news.
Vaccines don't cause autism. This has been extensively studies and debunked. Fake news.
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Immigrants are much more likely to have been vaccinated than the ignorant antivaxers in Washington state.
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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
Measles vaccination rate in America: 92%
Measles vaccination rate in Mexico: 96%
Measles vaccination rates by country
Also, you may want to look at a map. Clark County, Washington is a long way from the southern border.
Clark County is a prosperous suburb of Portland, and not many poor Mexicans can afford to live there. It is only 4% Hispanic, and they are not causing this problem.
Regarding your supposition that those ill were unimmunized... yep, spot on.
Age
1 to 10 years: 21 cases
11 to 18 years: nine cases
19 to 29 years: one case
Immunization status
Unverified: four cases
Unimmunized: 27 cases
Souce: Clark County website.
TL;DR: The whole outbreak appears to have been rather preventable, but you apparently can't immunize against stupidity and willful ignorance.
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This outbreak is happening in liberal suburbs of Portland.
Anti-vaxxers do not follow the normal pattern of political polarization. Instead, it is common among extremists in either direction. Left-wing anti-vaxxers believe vaccinations are a corporate conspiracy. Right-wing anti-vaxxers believe vaccinations are a government conspiracy. Moderates on both sides vaccinate their kids.
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.
It's fine when people on the wings agree for the same reasons: some things are just obvious. If people on the wings agree with each other for radically different reasons (and disagree with the middle) that's a pretty good indication they're being massive dumbasses.
See also Brexit.
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>50% of people voted for Brexit. Calling people stupid because they have a certain political view, is in itself stupid.
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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.
The first word of that URL after the domain completely invalidates what you just said. Also, frankly, fuck you because you are hurting people indirectly by trying to convince them that vaccines are bad when they save a lot more lives then they could ever hurt, in all of history, ever possible.
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.
"30 cases in 26 days in a State of 7.4 million people is a state of emergency?"
In 2017, there were 120 recorded cases in USA.
In 2018, there were 349 recorded cases in USA.
So yes, 30 cases in 26 days in one county is a dramatic increase.
They contain mercury which is a neurotoxin.
Water contains hydrogen, which is an explosive.
Fortunately, chemistry doesn't work like that or smokers would die of explosions instead of lung cancer.
They also cause autism.
There is zero evidence to this.
And thiomersal was removed from most vaccines, not because there was any evidence it was harmful, it's just what the conspiracy theorists and antivax con-artists latched onto so the CDC asked manufactures to remove them. Of course the CDC missed the point, the antivaxxers went after thiomersal not because they have any evidence, they were just against vaccines and it was the easiest target.
Removing thiomersal didn't cause them to trust vaccines, it just caused them to switch to a harder to remove target.
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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
Measles vaccination rate in America: 92%
Measles vaccination rate in Mexico: 96%
Measles vaccination rates by country
Also, you may want to look at a map. Clark County, Washington is a long way from the southern border.
Clark County is a prosperous suburb of Portland, and not many poor Mexicans can afford to live there. It is only 4% Hispanic, and they are not causing this problem.
LOL, Mexicans literally have to worry about sick Americans bringing diseases into their country!
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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.
Those aren't mutually exclusive. Clark County is SW Washington's conservative sinkhole.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." [Thomas Jefferson]
30 cases in 26 days in a State of 7.4 million people is a state of emergency?
Well the fire was confined initially to just a pot on the stove, but that was very localized, so we didn't feel it required any immediate action. Then once the cabinets above the stove caught fire, it still seemed really localized, do we thought we should just wait and see. Once we forced out of the kitchen entirely we decided to call the fire department, if it still continued to spread. Well once the living room drapes went up, we thought that emergency action probably was needed, and we did call the fire department, after we finished eating lunch on the lawn.
What couldn't they save our house? Effing gubbmint incompetents.
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The outbreak is in Clark County, the conservative sinkhole of SW Washington and the Portland Metro area. It is across the Columbia River, in a different state. They are also responsible for not allowing a new bridge to be built across the Columbia because there would be tolls on the bridge to pay for it, just like there were for the original bridge.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." [Thomas Jefferson]
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.
It's funny because of all the racist rhetoric in the US about "dirty Mexicans" bringing in diseases.
And yes, it's perfectly appropriate to "LOL" about serious issues.
What's inappropriate is laughing at the suffering of others or using humour to disguise offensive views.
But using humour to point out a particular racist argument is flawed? That's perfectly legit.
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Nope, again. Clark county is a lean republican county currently....not by a large amount, but definitely a lean.
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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.
They contain mercury which is a neurotoxin.
Water contains hydrogen, which is an explosive.
Fortunately, chemistry doesn't work like that or smokers would die of explosions instead of lung cancer.
You're missing something far more fundamental. The MMR vaccine hasn't contained mercury for 2 decades (in any form since as you quipped ethylmercury and elemental mercury are not the same thing).