Measles Outbreak Update: Highest Total Cases in America in Decades

The measles outbreak in America as reached nearly 1,300 cases, which has passed the total for 2019, when the United States lost its status of having eradicated the preventable contagious virus that is particularly dangerous for children. It is the worst year for measles in America since 1991, before eradication by 2000. Fourteen States still have outbreaks, with Texas being the worst focal point, from which the contagion as spread to other States, and where there have been three deaths. The outbreak in America and thousands of cases in outbreaks in Mexico and Canada has been transmitted especially through Mennonites. The ethnic German Anabaptists have close-knit communities and low vaccination rates. In America, the vaccination rate is less than 93%, which is below the 95% needed to prevent outbreaks and to protect the relatively few who cannot be effectively vaccinated for medical reasons. The vaccine for measles, which used to be the leading cause of deafness, is 97% effective, as demonstrated by the eradication of the disease in many countries around the world, and safe, as proven by numerous scientific studies. The only study to suggest a link to autism was fraudulent, but some people on the far left and the far right, as well as libertarians, nevertheless oppose the measles vaccine and other vaccines, or at least vaccine mandates, as I have posted. As I have also posted, Russian disinformation against vaccines has increased vaccine hesitancy for measles and other preventable diseases and therefore caused more cases of such diseases and deaths in Europe and America as a kind of biological warfare by Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin, a former Soviet intelligence agent, against the West and its allies. The Trump Administration has undermined vaccines as an essential tool for public health in several ways because of leftwing Democrat Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s conspiracy theories, instead of encouraging vaccination as the most effective tool against deadly contagious diseases like measles.