Global measles cases are on the rise, in spite of the widespread availability of a life-saving vaccine.
It's an ominous reflection of waning vaccine confidence, experts say. In the United States, multiple children from Broward County were sick with the disease this month, school officials in Florida confirmed.
All the children infected with Measles are "not vaccinated".
Measles is much more contagious & infectious to children than COVID-19....90% chance a not-vaccinated child will infect another not-vaccinated child at school or daycare with Measles.
Measles is a 'heat-seeking missile' experts warn as Florida outbreak grows
A seventh case, the first in a child under age 5, follows the state’s controversial surgeon general’s decision to let parents decide whether to quarantine children or keep them in school.
The Florida measles outbreak is expanding. On Friday, health officials in Broward County confirmed a seventh case of the virus, a child under age 5. The patient is the youngest so far to be infected in the outbreak, and the first to be identified outside of Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, near Fort Lauderdale.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids...ppose-state-surgeon-generals-decis-rcna140000
Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, telling parents it's fine to send unvaccinated kids to school
With a brief memo, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has subverted a public health standard that's long kept measles outbreaks under control.
On Feb. 20, as
measles spread through Manatee Bay Elementary in South Florida, Ladapo sent parents a letter granting them permission to send unvaccinated children to school amid the outbreak.
The Department of Health "is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance," wrote Ladapo, who was appointed to head the agency by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose name is listed above Ladapo's in the letterhead...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-measles-outbreak-unvaccinated-kids-school/
Measles cases are rising in the U.S. Here’s why misinformation about the vaccine persists today
Global measles cases are on the rise, in spite of the widespread availability of a life-saving vaccine. It’s an ominous reflection of waning vaccine confidence, experts say...
“Unvaccinated kids need to stay home for 21 days during an outbreak” to avoid the “very real chance of infection, hospitalization, death or serious damage to the immune system,” Jetelina wrote...
Weeks earlier, on Jan. 25, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
alerted clinicians to be on the lookout for measles after 23 cases were counted across the nation, including seven tied to international travel and two separate outbreaks made up of more than five patients.
Most cases were identified in children and adolescents who had not been vaccinated against measles, the alert said...
“We’re not just seeing cases, we’re seeing transmission, which means vaccine levels aren’t what we’d like them to be,” said Saskia Popescu, an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Measles is a highly contagious viral infection, spread through contact with mucus that has been coughed or sneezed, or through breathing the same air as an infected person hours after they have left a room. In 2000, U.S. health officials had declared the end of the disease’s endemic spread, eliminated by decades of vaccination campaigns.
But now, data show a dangerous decline in vaccination among schoolchildren, both in the U.S. and in Europe.
“That is a huge wakeup call,” said Dr. Syra Madad, an epidemiologist, senior director at New York City Health + Hospitals and fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
She said when it comes to vaccination rates, each percentage point “can translate into thousands of children.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health...sinformation-about-the-vaccine-persists-today
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Reminder, Measles was
eradicated several decades ago because of vaccinations. Today, vaccinations are at an all-time low because of misinformation/disinformation about vaccines.
We now are seeing diseases or infections making a strong comeback in different areas of the globe after being eradicated from the planet when vaccinations were higher.
Here's the issue that I have stated multiple times in this thread and other Covid threads online...we can not stop infected people from traveling around the world from point A to point B. Most of these people do not know they're infected until they arrive at their destination and the infection becomes more severe that it requires hospitalization.
I and others have also stated, that the stupidity in the consistency of the misinformation/disinformation
will produce endemics and possibly
another Pandemic that could kill millions again.
Reminder...no vaccines are 100% safe. Yet, the
risk:reward are in favor of vaccinations saving more lives, reducing hospitalization, reducing the duration in the hospital, making first responders safer, and helping to keep children in school.
Disclaimer -
The above message contains a link(s) to a tweet/article, that’s not ME making a claim. I may or may not share the same opinion even though I posted comments with the above facts from others about diseases/infections/vaccines.
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