CDC use propaganda claiming unvaccinated Americans cause high measles rate
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20-year high in measles cases points to unvaccinated Americans – CDC
Published time: May 29, 2014 23:48 Get short URL
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A 20-year high in measles cases within the United States is being fueled by Americans who travel internationally without having received vaccinations against the virus, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
As of May 23, officials say there have been 288 measles cases reported to the federal health agency this year – the highest total for that time period since 1994.
“This is not the kind of record we want to break, but should be a wake-up call to travelers and parents to make sure vaccinations are up to date,” said Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases.
Imported cases of the highly contagious respiratory disease continue to infect unvaccinated US residents, the CDC said in its report. Home-grown measles in the US were declared eliminated in 2000, according to Reuters.
Overall, 18 states have reported measles cases in 2014. An outbreak in the Philippines was connected to 138 cases in Ohio Amish communities this year, according to health officials.
Measles has caused 43 hospitalizations this year, but no deaths, Schuchat said.
Schuchat added that unvaccinated US residents are a “welcome wagon” for measles brought from overseas. The virus is still common in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The outbreak in the Philippines led to 32,000 reported measles cases, which caused 41 deaths from January to April 20, she said.
The vast majority – 85 percent – of unvaccinated US residents who contracted measles say they did not get the vaccine for religious, philosophical, or personal reasons, the CDC said.
“It was not because they were too young or had medical reasons like leukemia,” Schuchat said. “These outbreaks illustrate that clusters of people with like-minded beliefs who forgo vaccines can be susceptible to outbreaks when the virus in imported.”
The CDC recommends that infants aged 12 months receive two doses of the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. The agency also advises adults who were not immunized as children or who are unsure of their immunization history to get a vaccination.
theunhivedmind says:
What we have here is propaganda in order to demonize the wise who do not wish to be poisoned by population controls hidden in dangerous and non-needed vaccines. They forget to tell you how measles vaccinated spread the disease just like all those who take the flu shot do and ignore the instructions on the box saying to quarantine yourself for twenty-eight days afterwards. Now please notice how many people were supposedly hospitalized in a year and it was only forty-three with no deaths. Many of these would have been in hospital for no reason other than hyped up worries as usual. Measles is nothing to worry about many people have had it and lived, I’ve been one of them. Like all problems in this world, some people succumb to some things and the majority do not. You are more at risk from the vaccines than measles especially those MMR poisons regardless of lies that they are safe. Study how the medical mafia lied and gagged Dr Andrew Wakefield but now they suffer because he can finally tell the real story and has done online with Dr Mercola and others. The U.S has a population of 319 million and only forty-three were hospitalized? This is like urinating in the Atlanic Ocean and expecting it to rise or like looking for a grain of sand in a desert, its pathetic.
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FULLY VACCINATED PATIENT CREATES A MEASLES OUTBREAK (35.6)
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FULLY VACCINATED PATIENT CREATES A MEASLES OUTBREAK
Measles Outbreak Traced to Fully Vaccinated Patient for First Time
11 April 2014 12:00 pm
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Contagious. Measles vaccination rates top 90% in high-density cities like New York, but new data suggest even the immunized can catch and spread the disease.
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Contagious. Measles vaccination rates top 90% in high-density cities like New York, but new data suggest even the immunized can catch and spread the disease.
Get the measles vaccine, and you won’t get the measles—or give it to anyone else. Right? Well, not always. A person fully vaccinated against measles has contracted the disease and passed it on to others. The startling case study contradicts received wisdom about the vaccine and suggests that a recent swell of measles outbreaks in developed nations could mean more illnesses even among the vaccinated.
When it comes to the measles vaccine, two shots are better than one. Most people in the United States are initially vaccinated against the virus shortly after their first birthday and return for a booster shot as a toddler. Less than 1% of people who get both shots will contract the potentially lethal skin and respiratory infection. And even if a fully vaccinated person does become infected—a rare situation known as “vaccine failure”—they weren’t thought to be contagious.
That’s why a fully vaccinated 22-year-old theater employee in New York City who developed the measles in 2011 was released without hospitalization or quarantine. But like Typhoid Mary, this patient turned out to be unwittingly contagious. Ultimately, she transmitted the measles to four other people, according to a recent report in Clinical Infectious Diseases that tracked symptoms in the 88 people with whom “Measles Mary” interacted while she was sick. Surprisingly, two of the secondary patients had been fully vaccinated. And although the other two had no record of receiving the vaccine, they both showed signs of previous measles exposure that should have conferred immunity.
A closer look at the blood samples taken during her treatment revealed how the immune defenses of Measles Mary broke down. As a first line of defense against the measles and other microbes, humans rely on a natural buttress of IgM antibodies. Like a wooden shield, they offer some protection from microbial assaults but aren’t impenetrable. The vaccine (or a case of the measles) prompts the body to supplement this primary buffer with a stronger armor of IgG antibodies, some of which are able to neutralize the measles virus so it can’t invade cells or spread to other patients. This secondary immune response was presumed to last for decades.
By analyzing her blood, the researchers found that Measles Mary mounted an IgM defense, as if she had never been vaccinated. Her blood also contained a potent arsenal of IgG antibodies, but a closer look revealed that none of these IgG antibodies were actually capable of neutralizing the measles virus. It seemed that her vaccine-given immunity had waned.
Although public health officials have assumed that measles immunity lasts forever, the case of Measles Mary highlights the reality that “the actual duration [of immunity] following infection or vaccination is unclear,” says Jennifer Rosen, who led the investigation as director of epidemiology and surveillance at the New York City Bureau of Immunization. The possibility of waning immunity is particularly worrisome as the virus surfaces in major U.S. hubs like Boston, Seattle, New York, and the Los Angeles area. Rosen doesn’t believe this single case merits a change in vaccination strategy—for example, giving adults booster shots—but she says that more regular surveillance to assess the strength of people’s measles immunity is warranted.
If it turns out that vaccinated people lose their immunity as they get older, that could leave them vulnerable to measles outbreaks seeded by unvaccinated people—which are increasingly common in the United States and other developed countries. Even a vaccine failure rate of 3% to 5% could devastate a high school with a few thousand students, says Robert Jacobson, director of clinical studies for the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group in Rochester, Minnesota, who wasn’t involved with the study. Still, he says, “The most important ‘vaccine failure’ with measles happens when people refuse the vaccine in the first place.”