So that's how the CDC decided to create an outbreak:
"State braces for measles after outbreak at Disneyland" by Felice J. Freyer, Globe Staff February 07, 2015
Doctors and public health officials are girding for the possible arrival of measles in Massachusetts, as an outbreak that originated in California’s Disneyland moves swiftly across the country and sparks renewed alarm over a nearly conquered illness.
If it's not one thing, it's another.
State and city public health authorities have circulated alerts urging health workers, many of whom have never treated a case of measles, to be vigilant for its symptoms (fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes, and rash) and to isolate any patient who may have the virus.
“I think we’re all worried,” said Dr. Lawrence Madoff, director of the epidemiology and immunization division at the state Department of Public Health. “It would not surprise me to see a case in Massachusetts.”
Whatever happened to the enterovirus?
The Disneyland outbreak has sickened 102 people, including one in New York, which borders Massachusetts, and seven in Arizona, where the Super Bowl was held last weekend.
The outbreak has raised widespread concerns because people from all over the country and the world visit the Southern California amusement park, extending the virus’s potential spread at a time when an increasing number of people are shunning the measles vaccine.
I think I ju$t figured out the rea$on for this agenda pu$h by the propaganda pre$$.
While immunization rates remain high in Massachusetts, cases of the disease occur almost every year in the state. The virus typically arrives from abroad, carried by a traveler from a nation where the disease is endemic. Usually, just a few people are affected.
Most people who get measles recover fully and can’t get infected again. But the virus can lead to serious complications and even death: One person out of every 500 infected suffers long-lasting harm such as deafness, seizures, and brain damage. And one out of every 500 dies.
Because Massachusetts reports one of the nation’s highest rates of immunization against measles, any potential outbreak will be limited, Madoff said. The measles vaccine is one of the most effective there is, protecting all but 3 percent of those vaccinated. But in certain Massachusetts communities, clusters of people are resisting vaccinating their children, creating pockets of vulnerability where the virus could get a foothold.
Related: Measles Vaccines Kill More People than Measles, CDC Data Proves
Must be why they are resisting.
And adults who received an earlier version of the measles vaccine, between 1963 and 1968, may not be fully protected, said Dr. Anita Barry, director of the infectious disease bureau at the Boston Public Health Commission. Those adults should get revaccinated.
It's a guessing game as to what you might catch, but just take the $hot.
Dr. Cody Meissner, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Tufts Medical Center’s Floating Hospital for Children, noted that certain people cannot be immunized against measles, including infants, transplant recipients, people infected with HIV, and those undergoing chemotherapy. If exposed to measles, they are more likely to die, Meissner said.
I gue$$ it is good news then that the HIV death rate among blacks is down.
The vulnerability of infants was highlighted Thursday, when Illinois health officials reported that five babies — too young for vaccination — were diagnosed with measles at a suburban Chicago day care center, and 10 others were possibly exposed. There is no known link to the Disneyland outbreak, however.
Hmmmm.
Measles remains a worry because of “its extraordinary ability to infect people,” said Dr. Elizabeth D. Barnett, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center. “It’s one of the most highly contagious viruses that we know about.”
A person can catch measles by walking into a room in which an infected person sneezed two hours earlier. Just as concerning: People carrying the virus can spread it for four days before the tell-tale rash appears and four days after it ends, meaning people who seem well can make others sick.
Before the measles vaccine was licensed in 1963, about 3 million to 4 million people got infected each year in the United States, 400 to 500 died, and 48,000 were hospitalized. In 2000, the United States declared that measles was eliminated from this country, meaning that the disease is no longer constantly present.
But measles is common in other countries, and outbreaks occur when someone from abroad comes in contact with unvaccinated Americans.
Why did all the illegal immigrants come to mind just now?
These outbreaks have been getting bigger and more frequent as vaccination rates have fallen in some communities, driven by unproven notions about vaccine side effects. As a result, 644 cases of measles were diagnosed in 27 states last year, the most in more than 20 years.
Eight of those cases were in Massachusetts. One was a man from Germany who came to Massachusetts General Hospital, recalled Dr. David C. Hooper, chief of the hospital’s infection control unit. The staff recognized the illness and isolated the patient quickly to prevent the virus from escaping.
The hospital then had to make sure that everyone who came in contact with the man had documented immunity to measles. “These sorts of things can generate a lot of work, to make sure you don’t miss anybody who might have been susceptible,” Hooper said.
There was only one measles case in Massachusetts in 2013, none in 2012, and 24 in 2011.
The most severe Massachusetts outbreak of recent years occurred in 2006, when a computer programmer from India spread measles to coworkers at the John Hancock tower who then infected others. Eventually, 15 people fell ill in that single outbreak, and public health officials spent weeks locating everyone who had come in contact with the sick people, checking their immunization status, offering vaccines, and quarantining more than 1,000 people.
To achieve “herd immunity” against measles — the condition in which so many people are vaccinated that the whole community is protected — 95 percent of a population needs to be immune.
In 2013, Massachusetts had the fourth-highest percentage (95.8 percent) of children age 19 months to 35 months who had received the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
But there is variability within the state. Although state law requires vaccination before children can attend school, parents may obtain an exemption by providing a medical reason or merely stating they have a religious objection. The number who obtained exemptions increased from less than 1 percent in the 2000-2001 school year to 1.5 percent in 2013-14.
In certain parts of the state, exemption rates are much higher: 5.5 percent in Franklin County and 4.9 percent on Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vinyard.
Are you surprised I'm from the highest county?
“Whenever vaccination starts to drop, we do have the risk of relatively large outbreaks,” said William P. Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. “Once you start getting to numbers of 500 or 1,000, we will start seeing deaths.”
But there are still so many people in the country who are immune to measles that the disease is unlikely to make a full comeback, he said.
Then why the fear and pushing of vaccines?
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Related:
New White House Petition to “Classify Refusal To Vaccinate Children As A Mental Disorder” Has 2,000+ Signatures
Operation Mockingbird – Swine Flu Epidemic, 1976
That's down the memory hole for most.
"Measles reported at Ill. day-care site" Associated Press February 06, 2015
CHICAGO — Five infants who attend a suburban Chicago day-care center have been diagnosed with measles and about 10 more children, including some also too young for vaccinations, could have been exposed to the disease, health officials said Thursday....
Officials had not identified the source of the infections at the KinderCare Learning Center on East Palatine Road in Palatine as of Thursday, but Dr. Terry Mason, chief operating officer for the county’s health and hospitals system, told a news conference there is no known link between the infants’ measles and a recent outbreak at Disneyland that sickened dozens of people.
Mason said children who have not been vaccinated — whether infected or exposed — should not return to the Palatine center until Feb. 24 or until they provide proof of vaccination or immunity to measles, which is spread through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
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And about what is in the vaccine:
"Forecasts may soon predict flu patterns" by Felice J. Freyer, Globe Staff February 03, 2015
The flu comes every year. Sometimes it peaks early, surprising doctors in December with a spate of fevered patients. Other times, the virus dallies until February. Some years, influenza season comes and goes with only mild illness; once in a while, it wallops with fatal force.
In Massachusetts this season, for example, flu cases spiked around Christmastime, waned a little, and then took a sharp turn upward in January.
Yeah, tell me about it.
But now, new ventures are aiming to eliminate such surprises. Teams of researchers are devising and testing methods to chart in advance the likely start, peak, and end of flu season.
The researchers take an approach similar to that of weather forecasters: past patterns to project what might happen in the future.
And we know how often they get it wrong!
Mining social media, Google searches, and reports of illness, they crunch this information through mathematical formulas designed to yield a glimpse of what lies ahead.
Global warming.
So far, said Matthew Biggerstaff, a disease tracker in the influenza branch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these forecasts are about as accurate as weather forecasts were 50 years ago — not very. “We’re definitely at the beginning,” he said.
But once accurate forecasts are developed, Biggerstaff said, “we can make public health decisions based on that.”
I no longer trust $cienti$ts when cited by my propaganda pre$$.
Such decisions matter because the flu kills thousands every year, especially the young and the old.
If the CDC had a flu-season preview in hand....
Wouldn't matter because the vaccines are ineffective if not fatal.
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"Ebola vaccines testing starts in Liberia" by Jonathan Paye-Layleh, Associated Press February 03, 2015
MONROVIA, Liberia — Even as Liberians volunteered to take part, it remains unclear whether either vaccine ultimately will work, and if so how quickly they could be mass produced....
Despite the vaccines’ promise, authorities must combat fear and suspicion that people could become infected by taking part. Each vaccine uses a different virus to carry non-infectious Ebola genetic material into the body and spark an immune response.
On Sunday in one densely populated neighborhood of Monrovia, musicians sang songs explaining the purpose and intent of the trial in a bid to dispel fears.
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Without a vaccine, officials have fought the outbreak with old-fashioned public health measures, including isolating the sick, tracking and quarantining those who had contact with them, and setting up teams to safely bury bodies.
Yeah, I saw that.
The vaccines being tested won’t be an immediate solution, said Bruce Aylward, who is leading WHO’s Ebola response.
‘‘People keep saying we’re going to have a vaccine, but that will be in the middle of the year at the earliest,’’ he said last week. ‘‘We might be able to vaccinate some first responders but it’s a complete uncertainty. We have no idea if it will confer protection, even though the indications are good.’’
Both experimental vaccines showed promise in first-stage human safety tests, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said.
One was developed by the National Institutes of Health and is being manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. The other was developed by Canadian health officials and is licensed to two US companies, NewLink Genetics and Merck.
I $ee which pharmaceuticals are getting the windfall.
The vaccine trials come as the three most affected countries — Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia — appear to be making strides against the Ebola epidemic first identified in March. The UN health agency said last week that the countries had reported fewer than 100 cases in the past week, for the first time since June.
With a virus as deadly as Ebola, officials warn, the epidemic will not be over until cases reach zero in all three countries. But the WHO says it is now focusing on a goal that had seemed out of reach for much of last year: ending the Ebola epidemic, no longer simply slowing its spread.
Then the ulterior motives for the propaganda pre$$ agenda-pushing fraud must have been accomplished.
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Related: Ebola drug shows promise in some cases, but questions remain
“With Ebola, there’s precious little good news.”
I was told the storm was over.
Also see: Why vaccines matter
$ee what they want?
NDU: Tighten vaccine laws in Vermont and Maine
Just so you get the point.
