Why anti-vaxer's stupid, irrational and greedy decisions are getting others sick.
Congratulations anti-vaxers you have succeeded in causing a measles epidemic in the heart of your empire of lies (orange county). The vaccination rate in many of these places has plummeted from 3% to as low as 12% in recent decades. We are now all facing the consequences for this utter lunacy.
Worst of all, it isn't just anti-vaxxers who are getting sick. Vaccinations are not 100% effective (although they are better than 90% effective) and not all people can get them (like the immuno-compromised). When vaccination rates are in the high 90% enough people are immune that even if one person gets sick then the probability of them coming into contact with someone else who isn't immune is low. When you look at the statistics, you realize that each percentage increase in immunity makes it exponentially harder for the disease to make the multiple jumps it needs to become epidemic. Sadly, the inverse is also true.
In 2005 there were 15 cases of Measles in the Americas. In 2014 there were 3100.
Again Congratulations anti-vaxers, you've officially revived measles as an American Epidemic.
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A video from Andrew Wakefield, on a web site that makes claims like "Sean Hannity has been fired at Fox News." 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017238382
Awful drive. Lorries kept holding us up on narrow roads. Got to hospital. Ambulance went to wrong entrance. Backed out. Arrived. Young doctor in charge. Mervyn and he gave her 3mg sodium amatol. I sat in hall. Smoked. Felt frozen. A small single bar electric fire on wall. An old man in next room. Woman doctor went to phone. She was trying urgently to locate another doctor. He arrived. I went in. Olivia lying quietly. Still unconscious. She has an even chance, doctor said. They had tapped her spine. Not meningitis. It’s encephalitis. Mervyn left in my car. I stayed. Pat arrived and went in to see Olivia. Kissed her. Spoke to her. Still unconscious. I went in. I said, “Olivia… Olivia.” She raised her head slightly off pillow. Sister said don’t. I went out. We drank whiskey. I told doctor to consult experts. Call anyone. He called a man in Oxford. I listened. Instructions were given. Not much could be done. I first said I would stay on. Then I said I’d go back with Pat. Went. Arrived home. Called Philip Evans. He called hospital. Called me back. “Shall I come?” “Yes please.” I said I’d tell hospital he was coming. I called. Doc thought I was Evans. He said I’m afraid she’s worse. I got in the car. Got to hospital. Walked in. Two doctors advanced on me from waiting room. How is she? I’m afraid it’s too late. I went into her room. Sheet was over her. Doctor said to nurse go out. Leave him alone. I kissed her. She was warm. I went out. “She is warm.” I said to doctors in hall, “Why is she so warm?” “Of course,” he said. I left.
Thanks for posting that link, I'm glad my parents knew enough to get me vaccinated. My mom was a refugee in Germany during WWII and didn't graduate from high school, she may not have understood the science but she was intimately familiar with disease and its victims.
