Measle Increases in the United States

[kairos12]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/04/24/cdc-reports-13-measles-outbreaks-in-the-u-s-most-cases-since-1996/

snip:

Measles have infected 129 people in 13 states in 2014, the most in the first four months of any year since 1996, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday as they warned clinicians, parents and others to watch for the potentially deadly virus.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/04/13/jenny_mccarthy_responds_to_claims_she_s_not_antivax.html
snip:

Jenny, as outbreaks of measles, mumps and whooping cough continue to appear in the U.S.—most the result of parents refusing to vaccinate their children because of the scare stories passed around by anti-vaxxers like you—it’s just too late to play cute with the things you’ve said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-carrey/the-judgment-on-vaccines_b_189777.html


Maybe they should be referred to now as "Measles McCarthy and Jim Carrier."

[HockeyMom]

1. Whooping Cough

Read something interesting about that one. How many ADULTS know that they are supposed to get boosters every 10 years for this? How many adults haven't had a booster of that since they were little children?

Parents who don't want to vaccinate their children? Maybe you need to rethink this. Sorry, my choice for ME is to not get re-vaccinated for this, or a flu or shingles shot either.

Not just parents of children, but adults too. Personally, I have never read anything McCarthy has ever said.