The Worst Measles Outbreak in America in Decades

Through vaccination, the United States had nearly eradicated the measles virus, the most contagious disease, by the early 2000s, but an increase in vaccine hesitancy has rendered the American people vulnerable, particularly unvaccinated children, which has led to multiple outbreaks of measles and other nearly eradicated contagious debilitating and deadly diseases, as I have posted. The worst outbreak in America in decades is currently in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas, with nearly 600 cases and at least two deaths since late last year. Most cases are not reported, however. Nearly all the victims were unvaccinated, mostly children. There are currently smaller outbreaks in other States, including Pennsylvania. As I have posted, the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella, like vaccines against other preventable diseases, is scientifically proven to be safe and effective. But some far-left and far-right idealogues and some libertarians, do not believe in the proven science, or at least in mandatory vaccination to safeguard those who are unable to be vaccinated for certain health reasons. Their erroneous beliefs, amplified by Russian disinformation, have decreased heard immunity in Europe and America and caused many outbreaks of preventable diseases that had once been endemic, but through vaccination campaigns in the last Twentieth Century, had become rare. The Trump Administration’s Secretary of Health, the infamous anti-vaccine liberal Democrat Robert Kennedy, Jr., ordered a study of the safety of the vaccines, even though abundant studies have disproved theories of links to autism, for example, or any other significant adverse effects, instead of vociferously promoting vaccination as the most effective means against measles. Instead of contributing to the spread of disease, it is responsible and moral, and thus Christian and conservative, to protect not only oneself and one’s family, but the community, especially those members of which who cannot be vaccinated, by receiving all recommended vaccinations.