Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered “eliminated” as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000 – but not anymore.
An independent commission of experts that reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization determined that the US no longer qualified as having eliminated measles, a source close to the process told CNN on Friday. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The decision was widely expected after years of falling vaccination levels and surging case counts, but it’s still a black mark on the nation’s public health policy.
I feel like this should get old worm brains fired…or it would in a normal society
Thanks to the MAGA fucknuts.
They will eventually blame immigrants for this and not the antivax movement.
The immigrants are bringing diseases.
-MAGAts repeating what was said about every immigrant group in history.
MAGGA-Make all Germs Great Again.
Seems like tRUMP is determined to make USA one of those shit-hole countries he likes to denigrate. Does that mean people from Europe, and Canada, etc. will have to check measels vaccine status before visiting the USA? In the USA, some people of a certain age most likely only received one Measels vaccine, instead of the recommended updated two vaccines.
Should these people get another vacccine, to increase their immunity even if by just a little; or just trust this administration to tell you the truth to keep you safe? If you do want to get the vaccine a second time, you will likely have to tell the big chain pharmicies you are traveling to one of the countries outside USA, that has a measels problem. Now, before someone chimes in and says it is a bad idea, because you will take vaccines away from people that want to get it; consider there is currently no shortage of the vaccine-and every vaccine denier that risks their children, frees up another vaccine (theoretically). Again, this is only for people of certain age that likely received only 1 measels vaccine, instead of recommended two; and do not have natural immunity from having measels, before vaccines were available.
We used to burn witches for far less than this. This is a solvable problem with simple policy and infrastructure that already exists. There are guilty living people with names and addresses that are responsible for atrocities against humanity.
All thanks to a worm-brained moron who, I hope, will someday face legal consequences for his crimes.
Also, actually developed nations need to impose barriers to the entry of americans unless they show proof of vaccination.
You and me both
This is tragic that vulnerable people suffer and signs of failed education and propaganda over science. Everyone should read Sagan’s Demon Haunted World or at least a summary of it like this: Give a summary of Sagan’s Demon Haunted World and the ways to spot misleading people and quack ideas, include the invisible dragon story. duck.ai/share/b60d6c03-ce4c-484c-9dc8-4cd607501146#TfYcC-1g2Z03dmJAxh-B0zMwt4tQ-nDbNUeM9pT7V0s
This is completely coincidental, and has nothing to do with the current administration being a bunch of morons. Drink some bleach or stuff a light bulb up your ass, that should fix it. /s
So did Manitoba, Canada, but we were recently given the all-clear again. Go science!
