According to data from the Center for Disease Control, there have already been more cases of Measles in 2019 than there were in the entirety of 2010 or 2012. And if this pace stays the same, it will be on par with 1994, when there was 958 cases of Measles in the United States. via […] More
Last week, I wrote that almost all of the kids in the current measles outbreak were not vaccinated. My post of it on the ‘A Science Enthusiast’ Facebook page got over 4000 shares, which apparently included more than a few shares into anti-vaxxer groups. What I found most interesting about these people was that, despite […] More
According to the Clark County, Washington Department of Public Health, almost every single child in the current Measles outbreak wasn’t vaccinated. According to their website, 37 out of the 41 confirmed cases of Measles are in children who did not receive a vaccination for Measles. The vaccination status of four of the children are unknown. […] More
The governor of Washington has declared a state of emergency last week subsequent to a measles outbreak in Clark and King counties. So far, the state has confirmed that 35 children have measles, and there are eleven more cases pending verification. One would think that given the fact that we have the entirety of human knowledge […] More
