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Hundreds quarantined as measles outbreak accelerates in the South

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15375729/Hundreds-quarantined-measles-outbreak-accelerates-South.html
15•Bender•1mo ago

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jjgreen•1mo ago
Alarmed UK readers should note that this is South Carolina rather than Guildford.
tonyedgecombe•1mo ago
Readers susceptible to alarm shouldn’t read the Daily Mail.
chiph•1mo ago
This is because the upstate (of South Carolina) has a large eastern European population, dating back to some of the churches there welcoming in ex-Soviets in the 1990's. The new families (Ukraine, Belarus, etc.) didn't get the MMR vaccine, so now they're vulnerable.
watwut•1mo ago
This has nothing to do with Ukraine or Eastern Europe and everything to do with Americans not willing to have their kids vaccinated. Which is result of right wing propagandists who wanted to achieve exactly this and got rewarded for it.
chiph•1mo ago
24 of the cases originated at a church where the congregation is primarily eastern European. But to your point - as long as the local population is below 95% fully vaccinated, it's going to spread. Regardless of national origin or religious & personal beliefs.

https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/local/2025/12/11/sparta...

sizzzzlerz•1mo ago
FAFO

next up, small pox and polio, brought to you by the those medical pros, kennedy and trump. enjoy!

vmilner•1mo ago
Roald Dahl said it best:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles:_A_Dangerous_Illness

'Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die. LET THAT SINK IN. Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles. So what about the risks that your children will run from being immunised? They are almost non-existent. Listen to this. In a district of around 300,000 people, there will be only one child every 250 years who will develop serious side effects from measles immunisation! That is about a million to one chance. I should think there would be more chance of your child choking to death on a chocolate bar than of becoming seriously ill from a measles immunisation. (Dahl 1986)[4]'

gus_massa•1mo ago
It's weird that it compares the numbers in all Britain to only "a district of around 300,000 people".

Google says there are 70.000.000 persons there:

7E7/3E5/250 = .93 ~ 1 << 20 deaths << 10000 "ear or chest infections"

> That is about a million to one chance

A million to one is much bigger, the number in the example are almost 100 millions to one per year

vmilner•1mo ago
I think it means 'Given a district of 300,000 people in Britain (in 1986)...'
gus_massa•1mo ago
Thanks. Fix the number, 5.5E7 people there in 1986

5.5E7/3E5/250 = 0.75 << 20 death << 10000 other problems

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