Science indicates parents should vaccinate kids: White House (Disney swell to 107)

[Omaha Steve]

https://plus.google.com/+ChicagoTribune/posts/iSTtuwDdfNE

Amid the measles outbreak stemming from California, the White House is telling parents that science indicates they should vaccinate their children.



Disney swell to 107

More measles cases have been found in California, health officials said Friday.

Figures released by the California Department of Public Health showed there are now 91 confirmed cases in the state, up from 79 on Wednesday.

Of those, 58 infections have been linked to visits to Disneyland or contact with a sick person who went there.

The total number of cases in the outbreak has climbed to 107 and includes Arizona (five), Utah (three), Washington state (two), Michigan (one), Oregon (one), Colorado (one), Nebraska (one) and Mexico (two).

[shenmue]

1. Yay, science!

[Egnever]

2. Interesting, Why the other spike in 96 and the relative calm in between?

Would like to understand what caused the differences in those particular years.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. I look at people who won't vaccinate their kids

the same as some religious people who won't take their kids to the hospital when they're ill. I think it's child endangerment or neglect, and there should be a penalty for it.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Internationally, many of those are the same people. Canada and the Netherlands both have had

large outbreaks of measles and Netherlands has seen polio spikes which result from religious communities that refuse vaccination and medical care. In the US, there is much discussion about non religious vaccine refusal, but the foundation of the whole thing is religious, and a good percentage of US vaccine refusal is also religious in nature.

[tanyev]

4. Pfft, science. What has science ever done for us?

[NuclearDem]

6. Alright, I'm not the only one seeing the 382 over Ohio, am I?