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still_one

(92,131 posts) Mon Oct 27, 2014, 09:42 PM Oct 2014

Drop In Vaccinations Linked To Spikes In Preventable Diseases Around The World

A growing anti-vaccination movement, coupled with ongoing difficulties in reaching underserved populations, is taking a global toll on efforts to eradicate infectious diseases, new data from the Council on Foreign Relations suggests.

Polio, measles, mumps, rubella and whooping cough are all preventable with safe, low-cost vaccines. Yet the council’s Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks Map shows hundreds of thousands of cases of those diseases worldwide from 2006 to the present day. (Click on "Map" in the upper lefthand corner.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/anti-vaccine-disease-outbreaks_n_6056862.html

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Drop In Vaccinations Linked To Spikes In Preventable Diseases Around The World (Original Post) still_one Oct 2014 OP

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!-to quote Gomer Pyle. hobbit709 Oct 2014 #1

"...coupled with ongoing difficulties in reaching underserved populations..." Gormy Cuss Oct 2014 #2

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

1. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!-to quote Gomer Pyle.

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Mon Oct 27, 2014, 09:44 PM

Oct 2014

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)

2. "...coupled with ongoing difficulties in reaching underserved populations..."

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Mon Oct 27, 2014, 09:54 PM

Oct 2014

No excuse for that. Vaccinations should be free and readily available to all comers.

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