Unvaccinated Adults Face Graver Threat From Measles

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"Today, vaccine coverage is widespread enough that unvaccinated children can easily live to adulthood without ever encountering the virus, but not uniformly high enough to prevent outbreaks altogether. Vaccinated adults can get occasional breakthrough cases, but the illness tends to be much milder. Unvaccinated adults, however, are a uniquely vulnerable group, because measles only becomes nastier and deadlier with age."

https://archive.ph/x2Cn4#selection-817.256-821.124

[Tug]

No biggie just Darwin at work.

[MicroB]

On his watch

 

[BLMFem]

A big thanks to the anti-vaxxer community. They are doing a sterling job at helping humankind take a big step backwards.

Bloody i****s.

[impulse]

20 hours ago, MicroB said:

On his watch

 

 

On his watch...  You're kidding, right?

 

Whose watch is doing it to Europe, who reported over 125,000 cases in 2024.  Double the 2023 caseload.

 

Could it be the unfettered migration from the 3rd world?  Nah.  That wouldn't fit the narrative.  But humor me.  If it was due to unvetted newcomers, who shut down the border?   (And who left it wide ass open for 4 years?)

 

European Region reports highest number of measles cases in more than 25 years – UNICEF, WHO/Europe

https://www.who.int/

[MicroB]

3 hours ago, impulse said:

 

On his watch...  You're kidding, right?

 

Whose watch is doing it to Europe, who reported over 125,000 cases in 2024.  Double the 2023 caseload.

 

Could it be the unfettered migration from the 3rd world?  Nah.  That wouldn't fit the narrative.  But humor me.  If it was due to unvetted newcomers, who shut down the border?   (And who left it wide ass open for 4 years?)

 

European Region reports highest number of measles cases in more than 25 years – UNICEF, WHO/Europe

https://www.who.int/

 

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7414a1.htm

 

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A multistate measles outbreak, predominantly affecting members of close-knit communities with low measles vaccination coverage in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas began in January 2025. As of April 17, a total of 800 cases have been reported in the United States in 2025; 654 (82%) cases in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas have been associated with the ongoing outbreak. These cases represent an approximately 180% increase over the 285 measles cases reported in the United States during all of 2024, and the second highest annual case count in the United States in 25 years.

 

Among 48 (6%) internationally imported cases, 44 (92%) occurred among U.S. residents. Endemic measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000 as a direct result of high 2-dose childhood coverage with the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. However, measles cases and outbreaks continue to occur when travelers with measles return to the United States while they are infectious; larger U.S. outbreaks typically follow importation into close-knit communities with low vaccination coverage.

 

 

 

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/13-03-2025-european-region-reports-highest-number-of-measles-cases-in-more-than-25-years---unicef--who-europe

 

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Measles cases in the Region have generally been declining since 1997, when some 216 000 were reported, reaching a low of 4440 cases in 2016. However, a resurgence was seen in 2018 and 2019 – with 89 000 and 106 000 cases reported for the 2 years respectively. Following a backsliding in immunization coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, cases rose significantly again in 2023 and 2024. Vaccination rates in many countries are yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, increasing the risk of outbreaks.

 

Less than 80% of eligible children in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Romania were vaccinated with MCV1 in 2023 – far below the 95% coverage rate required to retain herd immunity. In both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro the coverage rate for MCV1 has remained below 70% and 50% respectively for the past 5 or more years.

Romania reported the highest number of cases in the Region for 2024, with 30 692 cases, followed by Kazakhstan with 28 147 cases.

 

 

In both cases, declining vaccination rates are the reason.

 

People in Texas aren't getting measles because of brown people in Kazakhstan.

 

 

 

[impulse]

55 minutes ago, MicroB said:

In both cases, declining vaccination rates are the reason.

 

People in Texas aren't getting measles because of brown people in Kazakhstan.

 

Where does it say the vaccination rate went down?  The Mennonites have had the same vaccination rate forever.  Zero.

 

Europe had an increase in cases before the claimed "backslide in their vaccination rates" due to Covid.  Which they provide no numbers to support, BTW.  Because that wouldn't support their narratives.

 

The variable in both Europe and the USA is the number unvetted guests from the 3rd world.  Not vaccination rate.

 

[johng]

When I was a kid (1970's) my parents took me and my brother to a measles party  it was all the rage back then... unfortunatly we now have a nasty case of natural immunity.