There's a Measles Outbreak at Vaccine-Denying Pastor Kenneth Copeland's Fort Worth Church

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By Eric Nicholson



or several days now, state health officials have been sounding the alarm about a nascent measles outbreak in North Texas. As of Friday, there had been nine confirmed cases, a number that will grow as new reports from local health agencies filter up to the state.
The epicenter of the outbreak is Tarrant County, which has now confirmed 10 cases, and the epicenter of cases in Tarrant County seems to be at Eagle Mountain International Church.

Pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons delivered the news in a sermon last Wednesday:

There has been a ... confirmed case of the measles from the Tarrant County Public Health Department. And that is a really big deal in that America, the United States has been essentially measles free for I think it's 10 years. And so when measles pops up anywhere else in the United States, the health department -- well, you know, it excites them. You know what I mean I don't mean. I don't mean they're happy about it, but they get very excited and respond to it because it doesn't take much for things like that to spread.

The sermon was awkward, to say the least. Pearsons is the eldest daughter of megapastor Kenneth Copeland, and her church is one of the cornerstones of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, his sprawling evangelical empire. He's far from the most vocal proponent of the discredited theory that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine causes autism, but, between his advocacy of faith healing and his promotion of the vaccine-autism link on his online talk show, he's not exactly urging his flock to get their recommended shots.

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[PDJane]

1. Sigh.........

[trotsky]

2. Yeah, a measles outbreak "excites" the CDC...

because it's a fucking communicable disease that, while more treatable today, can STILL cause injury and death.

(And ironically, CAN itself cause retardation or autism-like symptoms due to encephalitis!)

Idiots.

[Warpy]

3. One hopes that if any of these simpletons or their spawn

are injured or killed by this disease that they sue the Copelands off the air and into penury.

I am so sick of these vacuum brained jackasses trying to practice medicine.

[postulater]

4. Must be something about Texas.

Measles Outbreak in a Fully Immunized Secondary-School Population
N Engl J Med 1987; 316 771-774March 26, 1987
[link:http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM198703263161303|]

An outbreak of measles occurred among adolescents in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the spring of 1985, even though vaccination requirements for school attendance had been thoroughly enforced. .... We conclude that outbreaks of measles can occur in secondary schools, even when more than 99 percent of the students have been vaccinated and more than 95 percent are immune.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM198703263161303

Damn Texan immunizers trying to kill all the kids by making ineffective immunizations. If you're gonna shoot em up, at least do it right.


oops, sorry, it's not just Texas. Illinois is not so hot either.

AN EXPLOSIVE POINT-SOURCE MEASLES OUTBREAK IN A HIGHLY VACCINATED POPULATION

Despite high vaccination levels, explosive measles outbreaks may occur in secondary schools due to 1) airborne measles transmission, 2) high contact rates, 3) inaccurate school vaccination records, or 4) Inadequate immunity from vaccinations at younger ages.

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/129/1/173.short

And Alaska.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056144.htm

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. See. God does have a sense of humor.

I had measles when I was little. I was really sick.

There were two kinds back then: the three day measles and the two week measles.

I also had chicken pox and mumps.

Didn't have whooping cough. But the girls who lived behind us did and that was pretty bad.

No shots back then for much of anything. Everyone just got it and then got over it. Kind of a childhood rite of passage.

[TexasTowelie]

6. The count rises to 21 cases.

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/texas/article/Texas-megachurch-linked-to-21-measles-cases-4764666.php