Jack Dickey has a Time article via a Reuters article by Dan Whitcomb about the measles outbreak:
A spokesman for the California state health department has told Reuters that he believes “unvaccinated individuals have been the principal factor” in a mid-December measles outbreak at Disneyland that has infected more than seventy people in six western states and Mexico, including five Disney employees.Rico says there's gonna be some serious lawsuits over this... (And he's not sure how stupid you have to be to decide not to vaccinate your kids.)
The outbreak of the respiratory disease, which is caused by a highly communicable virus, has increased the focus on parents who choose not to vaccinate their children. Measles was thought to have been eliminated in the United States in 2000, meaning the disease is not native to the US. (Nonetheless, over six hundred cases of measles were reported in America in 2014.) But it is not uncommon in the rest of the world, and healthcare officials presume an infected foreigner brought the virus to Disneyland or the accompanying Disneyland Adventure Theme Park in Anaheim, California between the 15th and the 20th of December 2014.
Of the thirty-four California measles victims whose vaccination history could be ascertained, twenty-eight had not received the measles shot. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control recommend that children first receive the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine at the age of twelve to fifteen months, and then again between their fourth and sixth birthdays.
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