Alarming 45-fold rise in measles in Europe - WHO
There was an "alarming" nearly 45-fold increase in measles cases in Europe last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Health chiefs are warning that cases are still rising and "urgent measures" are needed to prevent further spread.
Some 42,200 people were infected in 2023, compared to 941 during the whole of 2022.
The WHO believes this is a result of fewer children being vaccinated against the disease during the Covid pandemic.
In the UK, health officials said last week that an outbreak of highly contagious measles in the West Midlands could spread rapidly to other towns and cities with low vaccination rates.
More than 3.4 million children under the age of 16 are unprotected and at risk of becoming ill from the disease, according to NHS England.
It really sucks to be the kid of negligent anti vax parent in situations like these.
There should be a resource (I'm sure there probably is) for kids to get vaxxed without their parents' knowledge.
Sad thing is though that a large portion of those kids can't reason passed the brainwashing from their looneytune parents and won't take advantage of those resources.
Just start charging the parents for biological warfare for every child that contracts it from their own. Parents will quickly start vaxxing if others are going to prison.
Sure it's your right to not vax but if you kill others willingly you are getting charged.
Difficult to prove that someone got infected by a specific child
COVID took precedence over all else during that pandemic and resources from otherwise regular activities such as mass vaccination in schools for measles were ignored.
So it's less the problem of antivax parents and more the amazingly poor organizational skills of our institutions.
Measles is sooo bad. It essestially completely resets your immune system to that of an infant. You lose ALL immune memory and immunity to everything you've caught before or been vaccinated for.
What the fuck, for real‽ That is bonkers. Gonna go read about that.
Sitrep? What's the scoop?
It affects your immune system but not to the degree the original comment implies. Your humoral immune response doesn’t just disappear, but the effectiveness is reduced.
If Hell is real, there's special place there for Andrew Wakefield, Joseph Mercola, and Jenny McCarthy.
Those are some rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up. Watch how US does
FTFY
The US is going to explode half the people entering the US illegally are not vaccinated, then we bus them all around the country.
Finally some good news! /s
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In the UK, health officials said last week that an outbreak of highly contagious measles in the West Midlands could spread rapidly to other towns and cities with low vaccination rates.
It often starts with a high fever and a rash, which normally clears up within 10 days - but complications can include pneumonia, meningitis, blindness and seizures.
All countries in the European region are being asked to detect and respond to measles outbreaks quickly, alongside giving vaccines to more people.
"The Covid-19 pandemic significantly impacted immunisation system performance in this period, resulting in an accumulation of un-[vaccinated] and under-vaccinated children," the WHO reported.
With international travel booming once again, and social-distancing measures removed, the risk of measles spreading across borders and within communities is much greater - especially within under-vaccinated populations, it said.
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Human civilisation feels like it's regressing.