US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts
The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north
Governments across Latin America are stepping up efforts to vaccinate their populations against measles, as outbreaks in North America drive a 34-fold increase in the number of cases reported in the region this year.
Measles cases have surged worldwide to a 25-year high, due to low vaccine coverage and the spread of misinformation about vaccine safety. However, there is added concern in parts of Latin America over unequal access to healthcare and the worrying situation in the US, which is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades following a reversal of vaccine policy led by Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
“The US’s political position in relation to health and vaccination is an outrage,” said Rosana Richtmann, an infectious disease doctor and coordinator of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Disease’s immunisation committee. “It’s a problem for us.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/17/health-infectious-diseases-vaccination-measles-us-robert-kennedy-latin-america-antivax-blamed-cases-deaths-riseOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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Imagine being anti-medicine. That's what being anti-vaccine is in a nutshell.
Unfortunately, being anti-vaxx also harms others by allowing preventable diseases to spread.
anti-intellectual to be exact. plus they fall for pseudoscience quite often. like the flouride-free crowd, chronic lyme nuts.
Yep, being anti-intellectual is the basic requirement. Only then it is possible to be anti-vaxx - because these people cannot grasp the concept of how vaccines work...
a) in the human body: So many people wrongly believe that vaccines are supposed to make you 100% immune from infection, and when the Covid vaccines failed to achieve this impossibility, they considered them worthless. They didn't understand how lowering virus count and drastically improving your odds of survival were still huge wins for the Covid vaccine.
b) in society: People don't seem to intuitively grasp the dynamics of how a certain degree of vaccination can stop a disease, and that it all comes down to statistics. If you don't understand science, you don't even get that there's a threshold percentage required for herd immunity. So those anti-vaxx idiots don't understand how vaccines protect other people by helping to achieve this threshold. They literally hurt everyone around them.
So yeah. Anti-intellectualism is the fundamental building block for all of this, and that's why the Trump regime attacks education and universities. The less educated people are, the easier they fall for their bullshit.
We are a vile people.
We are also a stupid, selfish, and hateful people.
Fuck antivaxxers with a wire brush
they will get fucked with measles, covid, ADULT chickenpox, all the MMR, and tdap.
Unfortunately, they spread them too instead of just dying without hurting anyone else
You need experts to gain this knowledge?
Water wet, say experts
I'm against the death penalty, but for anti vaxers I'll make an exception, and they should die by being infected with preventable diseases until they die.
That way, maybe maybe they'll finally understand that not only they're full of shit, but also that they directly brought completely preventable suffering and death to men, wonen, and children.
These people, to me, are mass murderers and should be treated as such. String those ignorant fuckers from the highest tree for all I care, they will have to sit in the same circle of hell as Hitler and his buddies
Nature is culling the herd -> people who willingly refuse vaccines.
Edit: true the reply. It really is very sad. I see how my comment was unclear.
Poor people without access to the vaccine being affected because rich chodes refuse to use it isn't something to be happy about.
The COVID vaccine wasn't bungled though. It was a remarkably speedy and successful use of mRNA technology, and a great proof of how effective that approach to vaccines can be. If anything was bungled about it, it was leaving it in the sole possession of for-profit drug companies so that rich countries would have better access to it.
What bungling did you have in mind?
They can't hear you over the crinkling of their tinfoil hat
Mandatory vaccines saved lives
Those who are too stupid and selfish caused harm to others.
Every dead antivaxxer makes the world a slightly better place
oh yea thats why african countries were pissed and called it vaccine colonialism, when referring to gates vaccine initiatives.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Don't breed.
Difficult to whom? Which administration? Most anti-vaxxers (I assume) are Trump supporters. They might self-identify as free thinkers, but they've pledged allegiance to anything right-leaning, so why would the far-right government want to get rid of them?
It’s not because they are Trump supporters that make them anti-vaxxers. The stronger correlation is magical thinking.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/02/03/anti-vax-attitudes-and-political-ideology/
As for the why would a far right government cull their own supporters? Look at it more of a top-down dominance hierarchy, where the ones at top are accelerationists with malthusian tendencies. They have a utopian vision of the future where they run little technofiefdoms. The people within their borders, their “subjects” are slaves, property to be used and discarded as they please. Those deemed useless ground into biofuel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
https://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/
Anti-vaxxers could be viewed more as a means to achieving apocalyptic goals. The power behind Trump doesn’t care what the anti-vaxxers support, only care about their use-value. The same with Trump, he’s a means to an end, as useful idiot, to dismantle democracy and serve as scapegoat.
lol wut