About a million people worldwide die from it every year. In the U.S. the
vaccine is cheap and easy to get.
So why don't people get this easy to get and inexpensive vaccine?
Because idiots on the web get attention by claiming that their baby or some one else's baby developed autism (a genetic disease) after birth by getting vaccinated. Then more idiots believe it because if it is on the internet, it must be true, right? Right up there with the Earth is flat (or hollow) and tin-foil hats can keep the government from reading their brainwaves, and the Flintstones cartoons portray reality.
Now public health officials in Contra Costa County near San Francisco say a Berkeley student had measles when he rode the Bay Area Rapid Transit train between Feb. 4 and 7, 2014, possibly exposing thousands of people to this contagious and dangerous virus.
The man, confirmed to have a case of measles, was unvaccinated and had recently traveled to Asia, where he may have contracted the disease. Measles had been wiped out natively in the U.S. by the 1990s, but local epidemics can be triggered when unvaccinated people travel to other countries. This has happened over and again here in America in the past few years, which is why measles cases tripled in 2013.
That's right. A disease which was wiped out in this country, and shouldn't exist anywhere by now, has come back to kill us because idiots don't get vaccinated.
Remember: When you get vaccinated, you are not just protecting you and your family. You’re also helping protect babies too young for their shots, older people, and people with compromised immunities (for example, those who are on immunosuppressants for cancer or arthritis treatment). Herd immunity is real, and important. And when you don't get vaccinated, you are potentially responsible for their deaths.
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