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US facing second measles surge this year as outbreak accelerates in South Carolina

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As multiple measles outbreaks simmer across the United States, cases are accumulating nearly as quickly as when the West Texas outbreak was at its peak this spring. There were 84 new measles cases reported in the past week nationwide, according to data posted Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s more cases than have been reported in a single week since April, when there was an average of about 100 new cases per week. Texas hasn’t reported any new measles cases since state officials declared that the outbreak there was over in mid-August. Now, case counts are growing quickly in South Carolina, where state health officials say more than 250 people are in quarantine after possible exposure and 16 are in isolation because of illness. Some of them are in quarantine for a second time because they did not acquire additional protection — through vaccination or natural immunity from an infection — since the first exposure, state epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell said at a briefing Wednesday.-CNN
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What does one expect to happen when cocktail of antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists are in control?
 

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I have a friend whose mother was exposed to measles in the first trimester and it was before measles vaccines were around. My friend was born deaf which was a not uncommon occurrence in those situations.
Measles also causes blindness and other genetic issues.
 
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What does one expect to happen when cocktail of antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists are in control?

Anti-vaxxers existed before the current administration.






It's not as if Philly, California, New York, and the Pacific Northwest were "conservative strongholds"


Hopefully people remember that prior to the whole Covid situation, a lot of the Anti-MMR sentiments were a "hippy"/"everything has to be natural from mother earth man!" sort of thing right?


If there's ever another pandemic, hopefully people will be wise enough not to "oversell" and "overpush" a brand new vaccine and make it a wedge issue and become so insufferable that they create new "spite anti-vaxxers" (people who were okay with the flu shot and MMR vaccine prior, but became anti-vaxx in a broader sense simply to oppose the people who were becoming rather annoying)
 
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What does one expect to happen when cocktail of antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists are in control?
Unfortunately, it's more of a cumulative effect of years of antivaxx propaganda. The current outbreak in SC is centered around school-age children, so it's not due to RFK Jr. suddenly convincing parents of newborns not to vaccinate this year. But a general weakening of the vaccination rate to around 90% in these SC counties, which is not quite at the threshold of herd immunity for measles (95%)
 
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Yes. In the 90s when and where a second dose was recommended.
And before measles was declared 'eliminated' in the US circa 2000, because of our vaccination efforts.

Welcome back, measles!
 
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