(April 19, 2019 at 10:29 am)Kit Wrote:Quote:Measles Cases Are Up 300% Worldwide According To WHO
There were 112,163 measles cases in the first 3 months of 2019 compared to 28,124 cases in the same time period of 2018.
According to the World Health Organization, worldwide instances of measles have tripled from January through March of 2019 compared to the same time frame in 2018, The Guardian reports. The outbreak arises during a period in which anti-vaccination campaigns and concerns surrounding them continue to intensify and garner international attention, especially over social media platforms.
The highly contagious disease is entirely preventable through a two-dose vaccine, but the WHO has expressed concern about declining global vaccination rates for quite some time.
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Fuck anti-vaxers.
It is only reasonable that the health safety of the majority be considered above the silly opinions of the few anti-vaxers.
In my view, this has far less to do with western anti-vaccine types, and much more to do with the migrant crisis that has engulfed the world over the last 7 or 8 years. I don't think that the rise in rates is any accident, especially considering where everyone is coming from and where they are going to.
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” - C.S. Lewis, Is Theology Poetry? -
