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Philadelphia blames measles outbreak on people declining vaccines, failing to quarantine (thehill.com)

submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave to c/health

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The city of Philadelphia is blaming the recent measles outbreak on people declining to get vaccinated and failing to follow quarantine recommendations, after its Department of Public Health confirmed at least four cases.

The city’s Department of Public Health has confirmed at least four cases and is investigating two other possible infections.

“Unfortunately, we are seeing cases of measles that have spread to vulnerable individuals including young children due to people declining vaccination and also failing to adhere to quarantine recommendations,” Cheryl Bettigole, Philadelphia’s health commissioner, wrote in a Thursday press release. “Philadelphia is a city where we believe in a duty to take care of each other.”

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[–] SupraMario 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean "blames"?? No it is the cause of the outbreak.... people not getting vaccinated are the cause. Period. We have decades and decades of no measles with people being vaccinated...then dipshits magically thought they new better and stopped...and now we have outbreaks. All evidence points to them ...not some vaccine resistant strain.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Measles doesn't seem to mutate easily and still be infectious since the vaccines clearly worked so well, but it'd be better if we didn't try our luck by letting it grow in all these unvaccinated people.

The last thing we need is to have to re-vaccinate people if it does happen to mutate to evade our immunity. It'd be a disaster in today's climate.