I asked this question on facebook. Actually, what I asked was if the people who have caught measles during this outbreak are children of parents who are anti-vaccine people. Just quoting how many people were not vaccinated isn’t good enough in my opinion, because infants can’t be vaccinated, some people have legitimate medical reasons they can’t be vaccinated, and older adults might have never been vaccinated, or only vaccinated once. One time vaccine still gives great immunity to most, but does have a higher failure rate than getting the two doses.
I found an article saying over 60% of cases this outbreak are adults. That to me means they are not most likely anti-vaccine people.
I think this outbreak has been overblown by the media and that FDA, WHO, and CDC use these outbreaks to scare people into vaccination and they play it for as long as they can. Don’t get me wrong, I think all children should get a measles vaccine (unless they can’t for medical reasons) because that disease is pretty awful, it is extremely contagious, and the vaccine is a very good one with very little failure rate after the two doses.
I’m not so much annoyed with the government agencies who want to bring awareness. I am annoyed with the media who gives some misinformation and partial information, and annoyed with the screaming from the rooftop haters on social media. So many people think measles was gone and now it’s back. No. It’s not gone. Not even from the US. It is not endemic here anymore. Declared eradicated over ten years ago here. If we closed our borders we would most likely never see a measles case again in America. We don’t have closed borders so almost every year, it might be every, we get some measles cases in America.
There is still tons of measles in the world, and we have tons of people travelling around the world, so we will continue to have outbreaks in America until we eradicate it in more countries. I think a lot of Americans think the rest of the world is like America and almost never sees a measles case. That simply is not true. I think there are still something like a million cases a year in the world. I assume those mostly happen in pockets, in very specific countries with not very good healthcare.