Unvaccinated people lead to major outbreaks in 3 countries
Posted by Robert Leonard / February 25, 2019
Internet denizens have been mounting a campaign against anti-vaxxers (people who, for one reason or another, refuse to vaccinate their children). For awhile, it seemed as though this campaign was all smoke and no fire––this publication even erroneously believed that to be the case. But the hive mind was right: anti-vaxxers are leading to measles outbreaks all over the world, and this situation is very much something we should all be concerned about.
Recently, there have been four significant outbreaks in four different countries:
- Vancouver, Canada: Unknown number of cases, but 36 children asked to remain home after being exposed.
- The Philippines: over one hundred dead, 80,000 infected.
- Costa Rica: A French boy reintroduced measles to the islands. If a case occurs, it will be the first in five years.
- Madagascar: 69,000 cases.
You may think, “hey, these cases are all far away from me.” But the problem with unvaccinated people running around can’t be solved with geographic isolation. Planes exist, and unvaccinated people travel. So if unvaccinated Billy travels from Galveston, Texas to, say, the Philippines for a mission trip, gets exposed, and then returns to Galveston, guess what? All the kids in little Billy’s class may be at risk.
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