Thanks, Anti Vaccination Crusaders!

[Initech]

Nine people who visited Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park in December have confirmed cases of measles, state public health officials announced Wednesday.

Three further suspected cases of the highly infectious, airborne viral disease are under investigation, according to a news release from the California Department of Public Health.

All of the confirmed and suspected cases were for individuals who reported visiting the Anaheim theme parks between Dec. 15 and Dec. 20, the release stated.

“It is likely that a person infectious with measles was at one of the theme parks on these dates. People can be infectious with measles for nine days,” the state’s news release said. “Several large contact investigations are ongoing.”

http://ktla.com/2015/01/07/at-least-9-measles-cases-linked-to-visits-to-disneyland-disney-california-adventure-park/

[dilby]

1. Those 9 people should have been vaccinated, it's there fault.

[WillowTree]

3. Or, more likely, their parents' fault.

[lame54]

4. yes, as babies they should have demanded to be vaccinated

[LanternWaste]

5. Two were too young to receive the vaccinations. I don't think it's there (sic) fault.

Two were too young to receive the vaccinations. I doubt it's there (sic) fault.

[nichomachus]

7. I know

the difference between "their," "they're," and "there," but sometimes, when I'm typing, the wrong one comes out. Using "sic," as you did, is just pompous and demeaning.

[MohRokTah]

6. Not everybody can get vaccines.

There is a small percentage of people who cannot be vaccinated due to medical necessity.

These people depend upon herd immunity to keep from catching diseases like measles.

Statistically, at least 8 of the people chose not to get vaccinated, but there's a chance at least 1 could never be vaccinated due to medical necessity.

[MohRokTah]

2. First whooping cough, then mumps, now measles.

Next up, POLIO MAKES A RETURN!

You know it's coming...

[iandhr]

8. It's not just the wacko faith healers

Unfortunately many of the anti-Bad crowd are highly educated people who should know better.

[phantom power]

10. speaking of, have you seen this little gem:

Jenny McCarthy, intellectual coward, saying she was just, you know, mis-understood...

“I am not anti-vaccine,” McCarthy insists. “I’m in this gray zone of, I think everyone should be aware and educate yourself and ask questions. And if your kid is having a problem, ask your doctor for an alternative way of doing the shots”—for example, fewer vaccination doses at the same time.

“The ironic thing is my position has always remained the same. People just never listened to it,” she says. “Literally, throughout the years, I have said the same thing over and over again. But people will only read headlines instead of looking back and seeing what I’ve been saying.”

McCarthy says the attacks “felt the same way as being attacked when I posed for Playboy. To me, it’s a collective fear I think people have. If they’re not reading my books or doing the work on what I’ve been saying, I can understand why they would have hateful feelings. But read what I’ve said!…I’m done talking about it.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/24/jenny-mccarthy-i-am-not-anti-vaccine.html

[HockeyMom]

11. Those 9 people will now never need a measles vax or booster

or be able to infect anyone else. Don't believe that? Go on CDC. Search born before 1957. The vaccinated Herd is protecting them? Not quite.

[MiniMe]

12. I had measles and mumps when I was a kid.

And chicken pox. I was born in 1957, I think I got them before the vaccines were out. I got measles and mumps when we lived in CA.

[Mariana]

13. My next door neighbor is deaf from the mumps. nt.

[HuckleB]

14. What a ridiculous response.

They were already able to infect each other. How do you not get that? WOW!

[Starry Messenger]

15. And if they die of it, lucky them!

Their troubles will be ended.