As measles cases continue to rise around the globe, the World Health Organization warns it's a signal that other disease outbreaks could soon follow.
The surging number of measles cases around the world is a stark warning sign that outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable diseases could be next, the World Health Organization warned Friday.
“It’s crucial to understand why measles matters,” said Dr. Kate O’Brien, director of the WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals. “Its high transmissibility means that even small drops in vaccine coverage can trigger outbreaks, like a fire alarm going off when smoke is detected first.”
That is, measles is often the first disease to pop up when vaccination rates overall drop.
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U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 73 pts · 257d
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 257d
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 257d
Sometimes I wish there was some scientifically curated fiction where vaccines came from this high altitude tibetan super moss and it was bio and all that bullshit anti vaxxers want to hear. It could work
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 257d
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 257d
I know but we don't have to call it that! We can call it ancient profetic iluminism lost to ages or some shit. But really what it is is just science based vaccines with some aspirin.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 257d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 256d
just tell them you have to activate the vaccines with crystals after you get a shot.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 257d
Apple cider vinegar and oregano oil.
exothermic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 257d
We can tick one of those boxes! Vaccines are an adaptation of an ancient eastern medicine practice (variolation) rebranded to give some English white guy all the credit (tbf vaccines are a lot safer, but still the dude didn’t come up with the concept all on his own).
https://www.britannica.com/science/variolation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 257d
I wonder if a doctor tried this on antivax people.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 257d
that could be one reason but I'd guess the main reason why they don't single out the trump aligned antivax crowd is because they don't want to alienate trump supporters (that's like over half of the us population)
the people this information needs to get to the most are those antivaxxers, it matters more that they get vaccinated and less that we learn of their mistakes
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 257d
BrightCandle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
The outbreaks started under Biden. Vaccination and countering viral spread in general has been undermined by successive governments around the globe to get people back to work despite Covid still causing damage to a lot of people, including deaths, and the main causality has been public health.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 257d
We are in for it now. Public heath has always ben a sisyphean task. Interrupt it and you lose ground immediately and constantly until you go backstop the fall. Which is to say, we're in for it.
InputZero@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 257d
Not to mention invisible when it does it's job right. When public health is supported people don't get sick, epidemics don't happen, things look good. So some genius gets it in their head to cut public health funding. Why waste money on public health when people aren't sick. Then public health gets cut, people get sick, people blame the health care industry which isn't the same as public health. That happenes until public health gets a little more support, and people stop getting sick, rinse any memory of the last time, and repeat.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 257d
This is the IT affect. When IT works, everything is invisible and you don't see issues. When you take funding and personal away, suddenly you have all these issues that IT should have to fix, and now we suck because you can't fix it, because so and so was the resident, or whatever tool we had paid for was cut for funding, etc.
village604@adultswim.fan · 6 pts · 257d
Then they ship the jobs to India because they can hire 10 Indians for the price of one American. Then when everything gets fucked up they have to hire more Americans to unfuck it.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 257d
Steve Jobs proved that even Sociopathic Oligarchs can be just as stupid as anyone else when it comes to health. Maybe even stupider, since their uncontrolled narcissism has convinced them that they are smarter than doctors. I encourage this trend.
demonsword@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 257d
that sub which imploded trying to reach the Titanic has convinced (some of) them that they are smarter than engineers too
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 257d
Look at Trump. He routinely claims he knows more about everything than anybody. That's clearly a lie, since nobody knows more than my Uncle Bob after three beers.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
i always triied to phrase it more that we're definitively smarter than a few specific ones (those submarine engineers, to be precise)
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 257d
asRomeBurns1979@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 257d
You’re joking but this isn’t far from the truth. Self destructive behaviours wiping out species not clever enough to change their behaviour is as old as the earth.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 257d
I'm old enough to have the Smallpox vaccine, so have fun with that, you MAGA Morons.