http://www.who.int/csr/don/13-february-2015-measles/en/
There has been a big outbreak of measles in the USA, even though this may seem like it is a national problem, when you look closer you will see that 88 out of the 121 cases from January 1st to Feburary 6th are in California. People are being too stubborn to get their shots because some people believe it causes mental illness, but there is no proof.
This is a very interesting post. What I found most interesting was that most of the cases of measles came from the West side of the Unites States, not just California. Washington state and Arizona had the second and third highest numbers of measles cases. The cause could be because they have a different mindset in that area compared to people in other regions of the U.S., which would imply that most people in the West did not get vaccinated because of their thoughts on the side effects of vaccines. The number of cases in the West could also mean that there was a higher risk there, like the amusement park in California that they mentioned. I'm leaning more toward the latter, because 103 of the people who got measles went to that one amusement park in a three day time range of the 17th-20th of December 2014. The cause could also be a combination of the two; people not getting vaccinated and being in an area with a person also contaminated with measles. When I was reading the age range for the cases of measles, I was wondering if there is a specific age range for measles everywhere, or if there is no age range. Overall, this is a very interesting article and I hope those people get better. :)
ReplyDeleteI found this post very interesting, especially considering how the study that initially asserted that claim has been debunked on so many levels, so its odd to find that some people, despite the complete lack of truth refuse to get vaccines. What I wonder is why that group of people is so concentrated in California, as opposed to the rest of the country?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's because people are scared of what they don't know, because we don't know that much about mental illnesses even though it is such an current problem. Such as autism, it isn't something to be scared of, it's something to embrace.
DeleteI found this post very interesting, especially considering how the study that initially asserted that claim has been debunked on so many levels, so its odd to find that some people, despite the complete lack of truth refuse to get vaccines. What I wonder is why that group of people is so concentrated in California, as opposed to the rest of the country?
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