Prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, it killed more than 400 Americans per year, with children being the most vulnerable. Due to childhood vaccination, deaths from measles were nearly entirely eliminated in the US in the 1990s. The rise in antivax rhetoric is killing children.
It's heartbreaking in so many ways. "A young child has died of measles in Ontario, marking the first death in the province from the highly contagious virus in more than 10 years, a Public Health Ontario report confirms. The child, who was under the age of 5, was not immunized against the virus"
A young child has died of measles in Ontario, marking the first death in the province from the highly infectious virus in more than 10 years, a Public Health Ontario report confirms.
I nearly died of measles as a toddler (1972) and my mom still remembers how scared she was. I can't believe parents put their kids through this, but it feels like there are parents today who are too damaged by everything from anti-vax to the gun lobby to function as carers.
Literal child abuse, championed by more people than ever decades after the fears were proven to be unfounded Why are people?
One dead in ten years? You have better things to do, Katie.
This also means cases of rubella and mumps will be on the rise as well. Rubella is rarely fatal, but it does horrific things to fetuses.
The protect the kids/let kids be kids crowd loves getting kids killed/child labor. Never getting over that.
Im very thankful my child has had no ill reaction so far, otherwise we would be reliant on all these deluded people for herd immunity
I don't know what's more remark: how incredibly successful many of these massive public drives for immunization have been, or the fact that diseases are so slippery that we've only ever eliminated a single disease from the face of the planet. We're soooo close on a few others.
So, antivacc isn’t hereditary, then.
Something that is always missed when only talking deaths from preventable diseases is all the other less than death but life altering complications they can leave one with. I am one such case, and let me tell you it made growing up hell and took some of my hearing from me. Vaccinate your damn kids.
Fucking hell - from the article: "in Toronto, the percentage of seven-year-olds fully vaccinated for measles dropped from 80.2 per cent in the 2019-2020 school year to 38.9 per cent in the 2021-2022 school year."