Measles kills first patient in 12 years

[zenkai]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...tate/29624385/

The woman's death was a preventable, but predictable, consequence of falling vaccination rates, said Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development in Houston.

Measles has surged back in recent years as groups of like-minded parents have opted against fully vaccinating their children. Last year, 644 people contracted the virus.

The ignorance of people...

[Tradewind]

Good job anti-vaxxers. Where's Yirrah to defend the rights of anti-vaxxers to be ignorant now?

[Bakis]

Children of stupids die, sad but it could be worse.

[Tradewind]

Children of stupids die, sad but it could be worse.

It is worse.

The lady who died had an auto-immune disease, incapable of vaccination/prevention and was infected by someone else who had measles.

It's exactly the scenario people warn these anti-vaccine fuckwits of.

[Garnier Fructis]

But if we have the freedom to drive cars, we should have the freedom to put others at risk of deadly disease. And the freedom to drunk drive.

[Nnyco]

Horay for deaths of stupidity!

[Flutterguy]

We do need a good plague to get people back on board with the concept of vaccination. I think we've grown too comfortable with our survivability.

[Kujako]

We do need a good plague to get people back on board with the concept of vaccination. I think we've grown too comfortable with our survivability.

Wouldn't help, just look at "Typhoid Marry".

[Tradewind]

Wouldn't help, just look at "Typhoid Marry".

It's kind of got a point though lol. People don't fear what they can't see sometimes. Especially illness.

A good small pox outbreak would fix a lot of their attitudes.

[Ripster42]

It's kind of got a point though lol. People don't fear what they can't see sometimes. Especially illness.

A good small pox outbreak would fix a lot of their attitudes.

I'm okay with not reintroducing that particular horrific disease just to teach a lesson. Measles can work.

[Tradewind]

I'm okay with not reintroducing that particular horrific disease just to teach a lesson. Measles can work.

"Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention."

hueeuehue

[Herecius]

Horay for deaths of stupidity!

The victim had an auto-immune disease that made her unable to be vaccinated. Somebody else's anti-vax stupidity killed this woman. It's exactly the sort of horrible situation that has been warned about time and time again.

[Attackrabbit]

Might want to edit it to say first patient in US, I'm fairly sure someone somewhere has died from measles in the last 12 years....

[Revi]

Well shit.
Can only hope this will make convince states/countries to enforce vaccines more strictly, like the recent public school restriction in.. Flordia?

[AeneasBK]

Might want to edit it to say first patient in US, I'm fairly sure someone somewhere has died from measles in the last 12 years....

Not gonna lie I was opening the thread thinking "Pls don't be UK, pls don't be UK"

[Adam Jensen]

Good job anti-vaxxers. Where's Yirrah to defend the rights of anti-vaxxers to be ignorant now?

Well, it isn't pandemic level yet, so it's fine.

[Masark]

Well shit.
Can only hope this will make convince states/countries to enforce vaccines more strictly, like the recent public school restriction in.. Flordia?

California.

[Trassk]

I knew from the red face it would be because of anti-vaxxers. Like the world doesn't have enough stupid in it already..

[Cthulhu 2020]

Well, it isn't pandemic level yet, so it's fine.

My grandparents had lovely stories about the time before most vaccines.

Kids, even adults who are children when it comes to needles, have zero appreciation to the carefree environment vaccines has brought to us.

A pandemic is probably what it's going to take though, given people's terrible fears about their loss of FREEDUMBS.

[Gheld]

As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise I expect to see more stories like this