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CDC warns health care workers to be on alert for measles amid rising number of cases
(abcnews.go.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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Sounds about par for the course for where we are in this fucking timeline right now.
Does measles still spread a lot in some parts of the world? Why weren’t we able to eradicate it while vaccination rates were high?
I mean the only reason smallpox was wiped from this earth is because it took 20 years of dedication by the WHO to fully wipe it out.
The top 10 countries with measels cases as per the CDC are
- Yemen
- India *
- Kazakhstan
- Ethiopia
- Russian Federation
- Pakistan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Iraq
- Azerbaijan
The top 10 is based on data from the dates of June 2023 - November 2023. Each one of these are over 3k cases and the top one being at 23k and #2 being 13k.
So yes, some parts of the world has problem with Measles and unless we dedicate the time to fully eradicate it, it will never truly be gone. The antivax nonsense in the first world countries will only make this worse. Can't wait for the fucking return of Polio (however polio may be the next disease eradicated since its currently only in 2 countries and there were 6 reported cases in 2021) or TB
Note: WHO classifies all suspected measles cases reported from India as measles clinically compatible if a specimen was not collected as per the algorithm for classification of suspected measles in the WHO VPD Surveillance Standards. Thus numbers might be different between what WHO reports and what India reports.
Thanks for the informative reply