>Among the cases this year, the CDC said about 96% are among unvaccinated people or unknown status. Conversely, 2% are among those who have received just one dose of the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, and 2% among those who received the required two doses, according to the CDC.
>”This is a disease that was at the level of complete eradication; this should not be happening,” Dr. Conrad Fischer, chief of infectious diseases at One Brooklyn Health in New York City, told ABC News. “It’s very sad to have an enormously safe vaccine that has been used in billions of people and to have a sort of cultural societal amnesia about what these illnesses were like in the past.”
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Vaccines are suffering from their own success. Americans do not understand how dangerous these illnesses are because by and large we have NEVER seen them.
Some people are going to learn the hard way (which was completely avoidable).
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>Among the cases this year, the CDC said about 96% are among unvaccinated people or unknown status. Conversely, 2% are among those who have received just one dose of the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, and 2% among those who received the required two doses, according to the CDC.
>”This is a disease that was at the level of complete eradication; this should not be happening,” Dr. Conrad Fischer, chief of infectious diseases at One Brooklyn Health in New York City, told ABC News. “It’s very sad to have an enormously safe vaccine that has been used in billions of people and to have a sort of cultural societal amnesia about what these illnesses were like in the past.”
Vaccines are suffering from their own success. Americans do not understand how dangerous these illnesses are because by and large we have NEVER seen them.
Some people are going to learn the hard way (which was completely avoidable).
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