Measles Outbreak

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More than 80 children infected in Ohio measles outbreak: Half are under the age of two and nearly all are unvaccinated​

A measles outbreak striking central Ohio has now infected 82 children - hospitalizing 32 - as experts fear the once-conquered virus will make a resurgence.

Officials in Columbus, Ohio, the state's largest city, confirmed the infections and report that 74 of the infected children are not vaccinated against measles - and four are only partially vaccinated. Nearly all of the infected are under five years old.

While once one of the most dangerous infections in the world, measles deaths have significantly dropped since an effective vaccine was introduced in 1968. In 2000, the US considered it eliminated as an endemic infection.

The Covid pandemic has dropped vaccination rates across the world, though. Experts fear this fall in immunity will allow these once-defeated viruses to return in the developed world. Earlier this year, New York City recorded the US' first confirmed polio case in over a decade.

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Fears over measles super-spreader event at Kentucky religious festival - where up to 20,000 may have been exposed to unvaxxed attendee​

Officials have issued a health warning over a potential measles super-spreader event at a religious ceremony in Kentucky.

Around 20,000 people may have been exposed to the extremely infectious disease at the 10-day worship event in the city of Wilmore.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health chiefs revealed that an unvaccinated attendee tested positive for measles days after the event last month.

They are now warning all unvaccinated attendees or anyone who develops symptoms to quarantine for up to 21 days and contact their doctor.

'Large numbers of people that attended the gathering from across Kentucky and from other states and countries may have been exposed,' the CDC told DailyMail.com.

The infected person - who has not bee identified - attended a 24-hour prayer event at Asbury University in Wilmore on February 18.

The Christian 'Asbury Revival' event gained viral attention on social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, with some videos earning hundreds-of-thousands of views.

Social media videos show a packed event with some even worshipping outside as the inner area of the church became filled.

The CDC spokesperson added: 'An estimated 20,000 people attended the gathering on the days that the patient attended.

'The Kentucky Department for Public Health is actively working with CDC and clinicians to help identify if there are additional cases.

'Community transmission of measles in connection with this event is possible, particularly among unvaccinated or under-vaccinated individuals.'

Measles is one of the most contagious virus known to man. Each infected person can pass it onto up to 18 others.

The highly effective vaccines which first emerged in 1963 have largely subsided the virus's spread throughout the developed world.

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Florida becomes the new epicenter of measles outbreak: Child under 5 is latest to be infected by ultra-contagious 'heat-seeking missile' disease - as 35 cases are reported across 15 states​

Florida has become the center of a measles outbreak, with a seventh case of the virus confirmed on Saturday. The case is a child under five, the youngest to be infected in the outbreak so far.

It is also the first case identified outside of Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, near Fort Lauderdale where the infection is known to have spread.

It comes as the decision by Florida's Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo to allow parents to decide whether to quarantine their children or let them keep going to school has come under increased scrutiny.

Florida currently has the largest outbreak in the US - and there have been 35 cases across fifteen states in 2024 alone.

Cases are 'not going to stay contained just to that one school, not when a virus is this infectious,' Dr. David Kimberlin, co-director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham said.

Measles is the most infectious pathogen in humans that we know of,' Kimberlin explained.

'It's like a heat-seeking missile. It will find the people who are not immune, and they're going to get sick.'

On Friday, Michigan registered its first measles case since 2019.

Pennsylvania registered nine measles cases in January, eight of them in Philadelphia.

However, is no further cases are reported there as of early next week, the outbreak will be declared over.

Unvaccinated people have a 90 percent chance of becoming infected if exposed, an issue of increasing importance as the uptake of vaccines such as the MMR are falling.

MMR vaccine coverage across America is below the safe target for the third year in a row.

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[J Randall Murphy]

More than 80 children infected in Ohio measles outbreak: Half are under the age of two and nearly all are unvaccinated​

Once again we're seeing the same deceptive vaxxer playbook in action.
Allow me to draw attention to the phrase "nearly all are unvaccinated" — and in the article itself, "no deaths have been linked".
In other words, the vax didn't work in the kids who got it, and nobody died anyway.

However, the article leads the reader to draw the unsubstantiated conclusion that had all the kids been vaxxed — they wouldn't have gotten measles.
In reality, their own evidence suggests that if all the kids had been vaxxed, they'd have still gotten measles anyhow.
The headline should read — "Measles Vaccine Ineffective In Ohio Outbreak"

Further investigation reveals that that just prior to the measles vax, measles was already at the end of its "curve" ( remember the whole flatten the curve thing ).

And as usual they don't mention that the measles vax is also not without its own risks

Measles Vaccines Kill More People than Measles, CDC Data Proves​

Measles Vaccines Kill More People than Measles, CDC Data Proves - Global Research

First published by Natural News and Global Research in February 2015 Parents concerned about their vaccinated children potentially contracting measles from unvaccinated children may want to consider the fact that the bigger health threat is technically the vaccine, not the disease itself...

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[J Randall Murphy]

You can find counterpoint to the Global research article below.
In it you will find the same weak argument they've made to downplay the injuries and deaths from the COVID vax.
That argument is the now common line: "Correlation Doesn't Equal Causation".

Notice how the vaxxers always conveniently forget that that this argument goes both ways.
A correlated drop in disease following a vax campaign doesn't prove that the vax is the cause of the decline.
As is evident from the chart above, it is likely just sheer coincidence.

Article wrongly claims that measles vaccine claims more lives than measles infection, misinterprets epidemiological data

Measles infection resulted in an estimated 2.6 million deaths worldwide every year before the vaccine was introduced in 1963. The claim that the measles vaccine has caused more deaths than the measles infection is inaccurate and based on a flawed interpretation of epidemiological data.

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