SAFETY ALERT: S.C. confirms full-blown outbreak of measles
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - South Carolina health officials have confirmed a full-blown measles outbreak in the Upstate.
As of Wednesday, eight cases had been reported in that region of South Carolina. Five of them became sick within the past month and are part of a newly identified outbreak of measles.
A measles outbreak is defined as three or more cases that are linked.
The people involved in the outbreak are unvaccinated.
The patients are isolated to prevent further spread of the virus.
The worst part is ....they think measles is no big deal until one of them dies from encephalitis.
Every single parent out there who has “done their research” and refused to vaccinate their child: Go fuck yourselves.
Measles is a serious disease.
In 1917/1918 over 3,000 otherwise healthy young men in the US Army died from measles.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6617519/
Measles can also cause deafness and other permanent disability.
It is highly contagious with an R0 of 12-18, meaning each person with measles will likely infect 12-18 more (unvaccinated) people. And so on…
Sadly these outbreaks are directly linked to the misinfo pseudoscience and anti intellectual/expert bullshit republicans help push to the masses for years now. It doesn’t help that the general public is either too uneducated or gullible to be wary of it.
"the researchers show that the measles virus wipes out 11 percent to 73 percent of the different antibodies that protect against viral and bacterial strains a person was previously immune to — anything from influenza to herpesvirus to bacteria that cause pneumonia and skin infections."
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