Posted on 02/09/2015 11:17:00 AM PST by Theoria
The case count for the measles outbreak linked to Disneyland is steadily ticking upwards. Health officials in more than a dozen states are tracking down thousands of people to try to make sure they don't spread the virus any further.
It sounds bad, but European health officials say they're looking at the United States with envy.
To them, America's current total of just over 100 measles cases looks comparatively good.
Last year, Europe had 3,840 measles cases. Italy alone had 1,921 cases. And that's an improvement over 2013, when there were more than 10,000 cases across Europe. France has had more than 23,000 cases in the past five years.
In comparison, the United States last year had measles 644 cases in 27 states.That's the most recorded since measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. When you look at that another way, it's about the same rate Britain had in 2014, when 137 cases there equaled a rate of 2.1 cases per million people. But it's much lower than Italy's rate of 32 cases per million or the Czech Republican's rate of 21 per million.
"In Europe, we are looking at the American continent as the example of measles elimination," said Niklas Danielsson, senior expert in the Vaccine Preventable Disease Programme at the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC).
Even with regular outbreaks, the United States and other countries in the Americas have been able to stop outbreaks before they spread out of control — at least ever since the bad epidemic years of 1989-1991, when 55,000 measles cases were reported and 123 children died. Soon after federal health officials recommended in 1989 that kids start getting two vaccines instead of one, measles virtually vanished.
"We look at it with some envy," Danielsson told NBC News.
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Geee. I wonder if that is attributable to African migrants.
The USA will be catching up as more go unvaccinated.
“But it’s just a childhood illness. Nobody dies from it!”
Muslims don’t like vaccines. They think infidels are trying to sterilize them.
Just out of curiosity, does NBC News employ any editors?
Remember all those ‘60’s environmental radicals who thought that the global population had to be sharply reduced?
And then we had antivaccine activists and entire antivaccine media campaigns as to how bad they are.
And now measles is spreading here and there. TB is popping up too!
I just looked at Whooping Cough stats, and guess what. We hit a low of about 1000 cases a year in 1980, then we have been creeping up to where we now have about 30,000 cases per year!
http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/surv-reporting/cases-by-year.html
Here’s news that not a lot of people know about measles .. and/or chickenpox .. they invade the body outside as much as they do the body inside.
That’s why it’s so serious .. there are spots on the lungs; the brain; the liver; etc.
So .. please understand that as many spots as you can see on the outside skin, there are just as many on the inside of the body.
And .. you cannot get immunity just by being in the same room with infected people .. you have to actually experience the disease. I know .. I had all the childhood diseases .. along with Scarlet Fever.
As for these “measles parties” .. how soon will some children die after contracting the disease ..?? And .. will the deaths stop this idiotic practice ..??
That’s right, I forgot about that!
I had WC when very young. I remember two things...the cough..and the alcohol baths my mom did to get the fever down.
I also wonder about the recurrence of measles in baby boomers who had the disease and now have a case of Shingles? Is Shingles the same virus and could it be part of the transmission process?
Nope, that’s Chicken Pox.
I don’t want to sterilize them, I want to vaporize them.
Excuse me for that post, the little devil on my shoulder won this time.
Which begs the question:
Why do supposedly “first world civilized societies” allow disease infested immigrants into their respected nations?
Sounds like a suicidal policy to me.
Massive numbers of them at that
well yeah but euros are soooooooo sophisticated.............
Very few died from it back in the 1950s/1960s. Nowadays, if you want to talk about a disease that does kill, the flu is just that disease.
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