A sign in Vancouver, Wash., in January warns patients and visitors of a measles outbreak. By Lena H. Sun Lena H. Sun National reporter focusing on health Email Bio Follow April 24 at 3:01 PM Measles cases in the United States have now exceeded the highest number on record in a single year since the disease was eliminated in 2000.
This year, as in the past, officials say the majority of people in the U.S. who have fallen ill were unvaccinated. In some communities, anti-immunization activists have spread false claims about the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, causing concern among parents about innoculating their children. When many people in a community have not been vaccinated, the disease can spread quickly.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will provide an official update Monday. The agency is “currently receiving, reviewing, and validating reports of measles cases from state and local health departments,” spokesman Jason McDonald said. Among the newest outbreaks is one in Los Angeles County, where the health department tweeted Wednesday that it has five confirmed cases. Los Angeles county health officials said four of the cases are linked to one another after international travel, and an additional single case of measles also occurred after international travel.
In Washington state, 74 people contracted the infection in that outbreak, including 63 who were unvaccinated. Health officials are expected to declare that outbreak over if no more cases are reported by later this week.
En_Justice5 Nice try at fear-mongering, wapo.
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Is measles still harmful to a fetus if a woman is in contact, or close to, a person with the disease?
AntiVaxxers: We're bring measles back! Reason: Yeah? AntiVaxxers: Don't waste your time going to get a Vax!
Skipping vaccinations is a rash decision.
Anti-vaxers fall in the same willfully ignorant category as climate change deniers, creationists, 2nd amendment nuts who think owning assault weapons is their right & that neo-Nazis are very fine people as long as they to be nationalists.
Imagine a parent so shallow & obsessed with even the Possibility of having to raise a child with special needs, that they will risk Killing other children to quell their irrational and unscientific fear
Anti-science nutjobs will eventually kill us all.
Why doesn't the CDC statistics reflect these claims?
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