StrangePackage
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Racist bullshit.
Measles Cases In U.S. Hit Nearly 900, With More Than 600 Cases In Texas
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superrific
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Measles was eradicated in the US. For all those years, we had migration and no measles. These outbreaks are started by fundamentalist communities that don't vaccinate (Hasidim in Brooklyn; Mennonites in TX from what I understand). But then they spread among people who are unvaccinated because stupidity.
Isn't it odd the way there are measles outbreaks in areas full of religious anti-vaxx conservatives, but not in other places where there are large numbers of migrants? How much measles in NY, NJ, CA? I think there was an outbreak in Orange County CA about 10 years ago. Small one, but again anti-vaxxers. Those were the worst types: the Jenny McCarthy set.
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The measles outbreak started on Texas which still leads in cases. I wonder what country borders Texas and sends migrants?
www.nbcnews.com
The U.S. has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks
As the outbreak in West Texas slows, other states are reporting multiple cases.
www.nbcnews.com
How does that change the fact that the measles patients are mostly all voluntarily unvaccinated? Distract as you will, but the bottom line is that they left themselves vulnerable on their own accord. How they got exposed has little or nothing with them getting measles.The measles outbreak started on Texas which still leads in cases. I wonder what country borders Texas and sends migrants?
The U.S. has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks
As the outbreak in West Texas slows, other states are reporting multiple cases.
So, yeah, that's racist bullshit.
Measles immunization rate in Latin America | TheGlobalEconomy.com
The average for 2022 based on 19 countries was 80 percent. The highest value was in Uruguay: 96 percent and the lowest value was in Paraguay: 54 percent. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.
That's not who is sick in Texas, is it? My understanding is that there is no link to the border. You're straining at gnats and swallowing camels.
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Source?
StrangePackage
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More racist bullshitThe measles outbreak started on Texas which still leads in cases. I wonder what country borders Texas and sends migrants?
The U.S. has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks
As the outbreak in West Texas slows, other states are reporting multiple cases.
You go first. You made the initial assertion. The reason I say no link is exactly that. I looked up to see how many were immigrants and all I could find was that there was no link. Didn't mean here wasn't one but there's not been a connection made that was easy to find. You seem to know differently so show us what you got.
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Huge reach.The measles outbreak started on Texas which still leads in cases. I wonder what country borders Texas and sends migrants?
The U.S. has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks
As the outbreak in West Texas slows, other states are reporting multiple cases.
Here's the closest thing I can find to a root cause (other than an 82% vaccination rate in the county at the center of it).
The first part of that claim is correct. Measles was eliminated in the United States in 2000 and it was eliminated across both North and South America in 2016.
Elimination means cases can still occur, but the disease isn’t being continuously spread for a year or more in a specific area.
The second part of the claim, however, is incorrect.
The virus has been brought into the U.S. by people who have traveled to places where there is an outbreak or where the disease is still common, such as parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From those travelers, the disease can then spread in U.S. communities that have unvaccinated people, according to the CDC.
For example, the New York City health department declared a public health emergency on April 9. That measles outbreak, which started in 2018 and spread in the Orthodox Jewish community, was brought on by travelers who had been in Israel, where a large outbreak is occurring, according to the Pan American Health Organization.
This year marks the largest number of measles cases since the disease was eliminated in the U.S., according to the CDC, which issued a statement in April identifying misinformation about vaccines as a “significant factor” contributing to the outbreak. Similarly, the executive director of UNICEF and the director general of the World Health Organization issued a joint statement calling measles “the canary in the coalmine of vaccine preventable illnesses.” They, too, cited online misinformation about vaccine safety as a contributing factor in the rising number of measles cases in high and middle income countries.
The first part of that claim is correct. Measles was eliminated in the United States in 2000 and it was eliminated across both North and South America in 2016.
Elimination means cases can still occur, but the disease isn’t being continuously spread for a year or more in a specific area.
The second part of the claim, however, is incorrect.
The virus has been brought into the U.S. by people who have traveled to places where there is an outbreak or where the disease is still common, such as parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From those travelers, the disease can then spread in U.S. communities that have unvaccinated people, according to the CDC.
For example, the New York City health department declared a public health emergency on April 9. That measles outbreak, which started in 2018 and spread in the Orthodox Jewish community, was brought on by travelers who had been in Israel, where a large outbreak is occurring, according to the Pan American Health Organization.
This year marks the largest number of measles cases since the disease was eliminated in the U.S., according to the CDC, which issued a statement in April identifying misinformation about vaccines as a “significant factor” contributing to the outbreak. Similarly, the executive director of UNICEF and the director general of the World Health Organization issued a joint statement calling measles “the canary in the coalmine of vaccine preventable illnesses.” They, too, cited online misinformation about vaccine safety as a contributing factor in the rising number of measles cases in high and middle income countries.
BubbaOtis
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Whatever.. correlation isn't always causality.
I'll concede the point.
Vaccination of immigrants dates back to the early days of Ellis Island. If you think illegal immigration that circumvents that policy doesn't play a role, you're welcome to your opinion.
I'm sure this measles outbreak at an migrant shelter last year is coincidental.
www.cdc.gov
Race has nothing to do with it..
I'll concede the point.
Vaccination of immigrants dates back to the early days of Ellis Island. If you think illegal immigration that circumvents that policy doesn't play a role, you're welcome to your opinion.
I'm sure this measles outbreak at an migrant shelter last year is coincidental.
Measles Outbreak Associated with a Migrant Shelter ...
This report describes a measles outbreak at a migrant shelter in Chicago.
www.cdc.gov
Race has nothing to do with it..
StrangePackage
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Fine. Xenophobic bullshit, in this case targeted against a specific race.Whatever.. correlation isn't always causality.
I'll concede the point.
Vaccination of immigrants dates back to the early days of Ellis Island. If you think illegal immigration that circumvents that policy doesn't play a role, you're welcome to your opinion.
I'm sure this measles outbreak at an migrant shelter last year is coincidental.
Measles Outbreak Associated with a Migrant Shelter ...
This report describes a measles outbreak at a migrant shelter in Chicago.
Race has nothing to do with it..
Foreign Germs: The Stigmatization of Immigrants - JSTOR Daily
The stigmatization of immigrants through the language of disease and contagion is as American as apple pie.
daily.jstor.org
If you were capable of shame, you'd feel some saying bullshit like this.
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An outbreak a year ago in Chicago has nothing to do with an outbreak originating among unvaxxed folks in Texas now.Whatever.. correlation isn't always causality.
I'll concede the point.
Vaccination of immigrants dates back to the early days of Ellis Island. If you think illegal immigration that circumvents that policy doesn't play a role, you're welcome to your opinion.
I'm sure this measles outbreak at an migrant shelter last year is coincidental.
Measles Outbreak Associated with a Migrant Shelter ...
This report describes a measles outbreak at a migrant shelter in Chicago.
Race has nothing to do with it..
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Sounds like another reason for Texans to get vaccinated. I mean, they shouldn’t need more reasons, but apparently they do.
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The Measles outbreak started in a Mennonite community and spread to Mexico from the U.S.The measles outbreak started on Texas which still leads in cases. I wonder what country borders Texas and sends migrants?
The U.S. has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks
As the outbreak in West Texas slows, other states are reporting multiple cases.
Yesterday:
Mexico grapples with measles outbreak amid misinformation and distrust
Mexico’s current outbreak began in March and has killed one person so far
www.independent.co.uk
Mexico’s current outbreak began in March. Officials traced it to an 8-year-old unvaccinated Mennonite boy who visited relatives in Seminole, Texas — at the center of the U.S. outbreak.
last month:
Measles outbreak in west Texas worsens due to vaccine scepticism
With two measles deaths - both children - in the state, officials struggle to convince communities to vaccinate.
www.bbc.com
March:
The Measles Outbreak in West Texas and Beyond | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The challenges to controlling the outbreak, the importance of vaccination, and important caveats to the role of vitamin A in treating measles.
This outbreak started in a Mennonite community in West Texas where there are low vaccination rates. Many of the children are homeschooled or attend smaller private schools, and many are unvaccinated.
This is not atypical for the larger outbreaks that we’ve seen in the United States in the recent past. In 2019, the U.S. saw 1,274 measles cases, including a large outbreak of slightly more than 900 cases in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York. In 2014, there was a measles outbreak of 383 cases in an Amish community in Ohio.
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That settles it. We should deport all the Christians. The whole lot of them are troublemakers.
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So will the people who said stupid racist bullshit come back to the thread and acknowledge they were wrong, and examine what led them to suggest stupid racist bullshit in the first place?The Measles outbreak started in a Mennonite community and spread to Mexico from the U.S.
Yesterday:
Mexico grapples with measles outbreak amid misinformation and distrust
Mexico’s current outbreak began in March and has killed one person so far
Mexico’s current outbreak began in March. Officials traced it to an 8-year-old unvaccinated Mennonite boy who visited relatives in Seminole, Texas — at the center of the U.S. outbreak.
last month:
Measles outbreak in west Texas worsens due to vaccine scepticism
With two measles deaths - both children - in the state, officials struggle to convince communities to vaccinate.
March:
The Measles Outbreak in West Texas and Beyond | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The challenges to controlling the outbreak, the importance of vaccination, and important caveats to the role of vitamin A in treating measles.publichealth.jhu.edu
This outbreak started in a Mennonite community in West Texas where there are low vaccination rates. Many of the children are homeschooled or attend smaller private schools, and many are unvaccinated.
This is not atypical for the larger outbreaks that we’ve seen in the United States in the recent past. In 2019, the U.S. saw 1,274 measles cases, including a large outbreak of slightly more than 900 cases in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York. In 2014, there was a measles outbreak of 383 cases in an Amish community in Ohio.
Or nah?