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Utah has emerged as a major center of measles infections in the US, as an outbreak that has been building for some time continues to expand.

State officials reported a total of 602 measles cases on Wednesday tied to an outbreak that started last year and is still ongoing, including 19 newly identified infections, according to the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (Cidrap). Recent exposures have been reported at several preschools and elementary schools.

About one-third of those infected have experienced symptoms severe enough to require visits to emergency rooms, reported the New York Times, largely due to intense dehydration from vomiting and diarrhea.

Out of the 602 total cases, 405 have occurred since the beginning of this year, with 75 reported in just the last three weeks. So far, 49 individuals have needed hospitalization. A significant majority of those infected – 513 people, or 85% – were not vaccinated against measles.

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[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

This is the thing that made covid great. Historically, the anti-vaccine crowds are like this crowd, where they make a bad decision and their child has to pay for it. An innocent child that has no control over his or her situation.

The great thing about covid, is that the people who decide not to take the vaccine are the ones who could potentially die. Now this isn't totally true. Kids spread the disease to other kids and potentially grandparents or the elderly. Get the disease and even if they've been vaccinated to take a die. But at least on the first order, the idiot anti-vaccine people are the ones who get really sick.

[–] TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If only there was something out there that would lower the chance of this spreading?!

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah, a lot more money should be spent on research for this. /S

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You gotta /s these days mate. The world is becoming such a stupid fucking place that it's more common than sarcasm now.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I saw that. Corrected.

I thought that people would understand that the post could only be sarcastic, but no

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean more than zero? It all got cut last year.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Jeez, people! I forgot to add the /S

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Antivaxxers are a particular type of filth

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Id say there’s a special circle of hell for them but who am I kidding, they work for the dark lord they are getting promotions!

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[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Data shows 85% of those infected in the state have been not vaccinated against measles as dozens are hospitalized

The data also therefore shows that 15% of those infected were vaccinated. That means that these anti-vaxxer twats are causing responsible people to catch dangerous diseases that they would have otherwise been shielded from by herd immunity. People who refuse to be vaccinated should be banned from public spaces like planes, trains, busses, etc.

They should also be banned from businesses and other public venues unless those venues specifically and publicly advertise that they are open to the unvaccinated. That was the rest of us can avoid going to places where we may be exposed to pathogens that could overwhelm out vaccine derived resistance.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The data also therefore shows that 15% of those infected were vaccinated. That means that these anti-vaxxer twats are causing responsible people to catch dangerous diseases that they would have otherwise been shielded from by herd immunity. People who refuse to be vaccinated should be banned from public spaces like planes, trains, busses, etc.

Thank you! This is what most people don't get. They think "Well I'm vaxxed, and my kids are vaxxed, so let those idiots all die." And frankly, I'm with you.

But in reality, vaccines aren't perfect, and the efficacy rate can be highly variable. Things like Chicken Pox vaccines wear off, and re-emerge as shingles in later life. And sometimes it just didn't take, but you haven't been around anyone with measles because EVERYBODY has a measles vaccine.

When we get on the other side of this, and can start acting sane again, we need to pass laws against this sort of anti-science defamation. It has serious real-world consequences that can't be just dismissed as Free Speech, especially when the motivation is malicious, political or profit.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The last time we tried to get conservatives to enact/follow basic public health measures, they:

Essentially declared jihad against the concept of public health, as well as actual embodiments of it

Invented a slew of new conspiracy theories, quack fake cures, and modern day babbling psychopath 'prophets'

Attempted a violent insurrection of the US Federal Government

... yeah I'm sorry but at this point my suggestion would be to just get yourself vaccinated and then fucking leave the suicidal theocracy quarantine zones, before more sane parts of the country start imposing quarantine restrictions on them.

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Those idiots dont get it. They see the 15% and say 'see, they got it even though vaccinated. The vaccine doesnt work! Hurr durr'

Thats what educated people are dealing with.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

We shouldn't let people in planes without proof of vaccination or a doctor's note explaining why they cannot be vaccinated.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] rogsson@piefed.social 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh no. Completely unpreventable. We’ll have to have faith in the disgraced Kennedy offspring to cure this with a mud bath or something.

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[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 23 points 1 week ago
[–] Cherry@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck around and find out starts to spread.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Except sometimes the "fuck around" is bringing your <1 yr old (that can't get vaccinated yet) to a public place.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

Sadly agree.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, that's just three finding out part. Others fucking around has gifted us all with some finding out, even if we already knew and didn't fuck around.

If antivaxxers cared about harming others they wouldn't be antivaxxers.

[–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago

So it's like 10 families.

[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

EU should mandatory test travellers from US on arrival - quicktest like we did with covid.

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[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

First, so sorry to anyone who legitimately can't be vaccinated. This isn't fair. Second, to everyone else, good luck with your fucking measles I hope you fucking die. Third, sorry kids, this isn't your fault but you're gonna pay for this.

No one cares about diseases until they start killing children. Maybe if measles kills enough children these brainless shit stains will start to figure it out. Hopes are not high. They'll blame the devil or libs or magic or immigrants or anything else first.

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

America does not REALLY give a shit about kids. We force women to have babies and then abandon them. We allow any fucking nut case to have a gun and I say this as a gun owner. The a few of those nut cases go shoot up a school. We do nothing about it all because of FREEDOMMM!!!!! We let antivaxxers sprout all their stupid shit and do nothing to really counter it. America do not give a single fucking shit about any child anywhere in the world let alone the ones at home.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We already have interviews of parents whose kids had died of measles basically shrug their shoulders and say "yeah it sucks but we'd do it again because it's better this way." They have completely lost touch with reality at that point and are basically committing negligent homicide.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

An minimum refusing to vaccinate your kid should constitute child abuse. That's the problem with the pro-choice crowd, they're not pro-choice, they're pro stupidity.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 1 week ago

So glad I'm vaccinated and have no kids.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But what about the magic underwear?

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Kids don't get to wear it.

But, if they're under 8 years old and die, they get to go straight to the Celestial Kingdom to live with God and Jesus.

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mormons wear special underwear that go from their knees up to their shoulders because Jesus said so.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

Oh look once again Americans are dying from 100% preventable disease and yet they haven't learnt their lesson.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

I'm sure this won't be a problem in a state full of people who do ritual baptismal christenings.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Are adults with sane parents at risk?

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

God I hope some of these people fucking die. I am so sick of all the jackasses around here and the fucking bullshit they're pulling.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, but it's just going to be their kids who die.

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