Through an insidious combination of lax vaccination enforcement and misinformation based on junk science, we are allowing the measles to creep back in, the L.A. Times Editorial Board writes. 'Shame on us.' (via latimesopinion)
and warned that the sick person may have exposed others at a screening of “Avengers: Endgame.”
Parents continue to believe that vaccination is a bigger risk to the health of their kids than measles. That’s not just magical thinking; it’s reckless.Eight local cases may not seem like a lot, but consider what’s happening elsewhere in the country and the world. So far this year, the nation has reported more than 700 cases of measles in 22 states, the largest number in a single year since 1994. Globally, measles cases are up more than 300% this year.
Serious outbreaks, however, are unlikely in populations with “herd immunity” — that is, a vaccination rate of 95% or higher. The problem is that years of immunization opt-outs and exemptions for schoolchildren, propelled by a growing anti-vaccination movement, have left vaccination rates in some places below the level they need to be. That was a factor in quarantines on the two L.A.
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