The thing is that viruses don't know any political boundaries... they are an equal opportunity infector. So when a group of people decides not to get vaccinated it affects everyone!
Health authorities warned of further spread. Most U.S. measles cases this year involved people 19 and under and those without a confirmed vaccination.The Washington PostBy Kelly Kasulis ChoFebruary 24, 2025Nearly 100 people across Texas and New Mexico have contracted measles, state officials say, escalating anxiety over the spread of a potentially life-threatening illness that was declared eliminated in the United States more than two decades ago.Ninety cases of measles — the majority affecting children under 17 — were detected in Texas’s South Plains, a sprawling region in the state’s northwest, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Friday. The spread marks a significant jump from the 24 cases reported earlier this month. The DSHS said “additional cases are likely to occur in the outbreak area and the surrounding communities.”[...]There is no specific cure or treatment for measles. One or two in every 1,000 children who contract measles are projected to die, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in 2019, with pneumonia being the most common cause of death.
But there is a church that does not believe in vaccinations, but now it has spread beyond the church so now everyone is worried!
The disease’s comeback has occurred in tandem with the rise of anti-vaccine rhetoric propagated on social media and among some public officials.
These nut cases are putting me and other in jeopardy. They are putting the elderly, the sick, and the very young at risk just because these far-right nut jobs hate science.
I was vaccinated with MMR about four or five years ago when I was volunteering at a health collective when someone with mumps walked in and exposed all of us. So to be on the safe side many of us older volunteers got the vaccine just incase our protection had diminished.
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