Measles erupts in Florida school where 11% of kids are unvaccinated
Over 100 children at the school are susceptible to virus.
Florida health officials on Sunday announced an investigation into a cluster of measles cases at an elementary school in the Fort Lauderdale area with a low vaccination rate, a scenario health experts fear will become more and more common amid slipping vaccination rates nationwide.
On Friday, Broward County Public School reported a confirmed case of measles in a student at Manatee Bay Elementary School in the city of Weston. A local CBS affiliate reported that the case was in a third-grade student who had not recently traveled. On Saturday, the school system announced that three additional cases at the same school had been reported, bringing the current reported total to four cases.
On Sunday, the Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) released a health advisory about the cases and announced it was opening an investigation to track contacts at risk of infection.
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The entire population of America, roughly 330 million, had on average 285 measles cases per year over the last decade. This single school of 1046 students has 4 cases this year so far.
Though I know it's a bad comparison, this school's rate of measles infection is like 4000 times higher than the rest of the country.
Fuckin wild
It's not that wild. Vaccinate your fucking kids. Period. We do this wild thing with our sob where we listen to the doctor...
You're preaching to the choir. No matter how many people repeat this basic life saving advice, it will be dismissed as some conspiracy to surrender autonomy and control to the government.
Looks like these parents would rather surrender their children's lives to keep their pride.
Who, aside from anyone with a basic comprehension of inoculation and awareness of its demonstrated efficacy over decades of preventing disease, could have predicted this?