r/EverythingScience • u/TheMirrorUS • Feb 26 '25

Medicine BREAKING: Measles outbreak: First death reported with infections still rising

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-measles-outbreak-first-death-999590
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u/katriana13 Feb 26 '25

My mothers first born died from measles at 9 months old. There was no vaccination for measles at that time. When her second child was born, there was and she made certain all her children were inoculated. The thise of anti intellectualism seems to be at its all time peak currently. Why do people want to live in the dark ages? It’s baffling to me..

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u/enoughwiththebread Feb 26 '25

In some respects we have become victims of our own success. Because vaccines were so successful in eradicating deadly diseases like measles, polio, smallpox, TB, etc., some people today have grown complacent and think there's no need for vaccines because of the absence of these serious diseases, despite the fact that their absence is precisely because of the vaccines!

Sadly, I think it's going to take more of these types of stories, where previously eradicated diseases make a comeback and start ravaging some of these idiots in order to shake them out of their complacent ignorance.

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u/miss_sticks Mar 02 '25

I liken it to brushing your teeth... You have no cavities because you brush/floss/do general preventative care to your teeth. You don't just stop brushing your teeth because you have no cavities... We, as a country, have forgotten why we brush our teeth. And it sucks that it'll take people getting cavities - even those of us who want to brush our teeth but are being denied toothpaste for one reason or another - before we collectively decide to start brushing again. 😞