Measles Outbreak Update

There have been 1,600 cases of measles in the ongoing outbreak in America, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control, with 44 individual outbreaks in 41 States. The case total is the worst in 30 years, since measles was declared eliminated in America in 2000. In 90% of these cases, the patients were unvaccinated. Vaccines are the effective and safe way to prevent measles, which can be debilitating (e.g. causes deafness) or fatal. But vaccine hesitancy as dropped the vaccination rate in America for children, who are the most vulnerable, below the 95% needed for herd immunity to protect those who are immune compromised, as I have been posting. And as I have been posting, anti-vax ideology from the far-left and the far-right, based on misinformation, as well as Russian-promoted vaccine disinformation, as well as libertarian opposition to public health policies like requiring immunization for school attendance have caused a decrease in vaccination and an increase in preventable contagious diseases in Europe and America.