The Outbreak Of Measles Outbreak

After reading and hearing about multiple news reports about parents refusing to vaccinate their children over the years, it might come as a surprise that American children actually receive more vaccinations than ever before due to government policies. Less than 0.5 percent of children receive no vaccines at all. In Vaccine Nation, Elena Conis argues that the widespread adherence to vaccination is as important of a study as vaccine resistance is. She turns her perspective on to the spread of vaccines in the postwar era when new vaccines targeted the “milder” diseases of childhood such as measles, mumps, and whopping cough. More recently, vaccines have been developed and promoted that protect against diseases that largely affect adults. Elena

The attention coming from the Disneyland measles outbreak has brought up a controversial issue, something as preventable as measles spreading throughout the country because parents are uneasy about vaccinating their children from childhood diseases. The issue has many parents debating each other on what is right and wrong when it comes to vaccines and children. This hot topic has been all over the news in the last few months and has many parents standing their ground. Some parents feel doctors and the government pressure them to vaccinate, they believe vaccines are unnatural and can cause harm to a child later on. Others put faith in their child’s doctor and in vaccines without question, they were vaccinated so why

In Michelle Fox’s article, Expect measles outbreak to continue, says doctor, Dr. William Schaffner, Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine, says that the outbreak will continue for some time because there is a sufficient number of unvaccinated children to continue the spread of measles. According to the CDC, there have been 84 cases of measles and 67 of those have been linked to the outbreak at Disney. Dr. Schaffner also reiterates that measles can be brought to the United States from overseas. If someone from another country comes here with measles and is around unvaccinated children, there is potential to spread the disease.

“I would love to believe the huge response to vaccination would prevent another outbreak, just like I would like to thing measles could be eradicated worldwide. It can happen, but there are populations who refuse (vaccination), whether it's a fear of the west, an anti-government sentiment, or loss of their own public health systems,” said McFadden, adding, “If we could overcome it worldwide, we could see measles never come back

In California a public health crisis has begun to arise. Parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children much more often then they have in the past years. According to “Plunge in Kindergartners ' Vaccination Rate Worries Health Officials,” an article written in the Los Angeles Times, “California parents are deciding against vaccinating their kindergarten-age children at twice the rate they did seven years ago, a fact public health experts said is contributing to the reemergence of measles across the state and may lead to outbreaks of other serious diseases.” According to the same article, “for measles and whooping cough [to be avoided], at least 92% of kids need to be immune.” That is to say, at least 92 percent of children need to have had their full immunization in order to avoid specific disease outbreaks such as measles and whooping cough. As the stereotype against immunizing children becomes more prevalent, children (even if they are completely immunized) are increasingly placed at risk. Vaccines are not effective in all cases; although the large majority of kids who receive a vaccine will develop immunity, some will not and are still susceptible to infection. Additionally, children who haven’t received full vaccinations are significantly more likely to contract various diseases than others who have. Once infected, these non-immunized children become carriers who will

Although many Americans have countless reasons for rejecting vaccinations, many of them arise from religious beliefs or fear of adverse effects. However, not many of those reasons are due to medical evidence or facts. Due to many serious illnesses having been eradicated due to the success of vaccinations, much of society does not understand the severity of these illnesses and views the risks as far greater than the disease itself. On a global standpoint, measles is not completely eradicated and therefore still poses a risk on unvaccinated individuals. If people in the United States continue to reject the MMR vaccine, incidences of these diseases will continue to rise, putting everyone at risk. In light of this current knowledge, parents should

Parent’s of modern America, do any of you remember rubella? The mumps? The whooping cough? Maybe the measles? This short lists of diseases have been long gone thanks to a certain modern medicine called vaccines. However recent studies has shown, there has been a rise of unvaccinated children all over America causing many outbreaks that look similar to ones about a hundred years ago, albeit it being not as big, it can still be very dangerous. The outbreaks are alarming; leaving newborns and toddlers that are not old enough to be vaccinated to be exposed and defenseless to the incurable diseases. The reason why many parents decide not to vaccinate their kids

My current health issue in an underdeveloped country is the recent measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This country is prone to many disease epidemics, as a result of frequent wars, which have resulted in poor health infrastructure and government services. Many people are not able to get access to or afford the proper medical care that they need, and this can contribute to the spreading of the disease. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, measles is often a life-threatening issue, along with occurrences of malaria and cholera. Many additional factors have also led to the large number of people infected, such as shortages of medicine and trained medical staff, the delay in medical relief due to the failure of authorities

With the effective work carried out by all agencies involved in the measles epidemic, the outbreak was declared over on July 2rd 2013 this is thought to have been a short time frame and could of lasted a lot longer if it wasn’t for the commitment and combined efforts provided by all agencies including primary care, local authorities, health boards and public health wales (BBC, 2013).

Most children, however, are required to get a measles vaccine to attend school, but not necessarily a flu vaccine. The measles outbreak in Disneyland spurted outcry to protect our children against measles, although there are always numerous flu outbreaks every year. Noticing this, David Ropeik wrote his op-ed piece “Stop Fussing over Measles Vaccination Rates. Start Worrying about Flu Shots” towards the end of 2015. It is here where Ropeik offers a compelling, yet structurally flawed, argument to focus on influenza over measles.

Preventable diseases are experiencing a startling resurgence in America. Just last year, California experienced an outbreak of measles, and 131 Californians were infected. At least 56 of these people had not been vaccinated, and would likely be unaffected if they had been. Measles was supposed to have been eradicated in 2000, but is now making a comeback a mere 15 years later. Why are measles and other such disease resurfacing in the U.S. after years of immunization and protection? Because some people believe that vaccines cause autism, a fallacy based on a flawed 1998 study performed by a doctor who has now lost his license. Parents who don’t immunize their children not only do themselves a disservice, but put the entire global community

In 2014, the CDC reported an unusual increase in measles outbreaks. The origin of the virus was later pinpointed to Disneyland, however, most of the patients that became ill were unvaccinated or had an undocumented vaccination history. Some people claim that vaccines are directly related to causing autism and other serious side effects. Studies have shown this is not the case. The CDC (2014) claims that “A vaccine, like any medicine, could cause a serious reaction. But the risk of a vaccine causing serious harm, or death, is extremely small.” Like any type of medication, some patients have been exposed to more serious side effects but this is very

Measles is an infectious disease that affects people worldwide. It is one of the most communicable infectious diseases, also known as Rubeola. It is considered to be a childhood illness but can affect people of all ages. In 1982, Department of Health Services set out to eradicate in the United States. The vaccine became available in 1963, after which cases in the United States dropped significantly. In third world countries, death rates are as high as 30%, the mode of transmission of measles is thru unimmunized people. Since the vaccine has been used worldwide since 2000 to 2006, there has been a reduction of death globally. (Friis, 2010)

California had a total of 129 cases of measles reported between Jan 1 - April 18, 2014. This is the highest number of reported cases for this time period since 1996. Among the 129 cases, 34 were importations, including 17 in travelers to and from the Philippines. “The Philippines has been experiencing an explosive outbreak of measles, with approximately 20,000 confirmed or suspected cases reported during January 1–February 28 and 69 confirmed deaths”. The Philippines outbreak highlights the importantce of U.S travelers being vaccinated before traveling outside the United States (Zipprich “et al.”).

On July 3, 2015, Liz Szabo, of USA Today reported that a woman in the US died of complications of the measles virus in the spring of 2015. She had been taking immunosuppressants, and therefore did not have the tell-tale rash that usually accompanies measles, but upon autopsy, the pneumonia she developed had been shown to be a complication of the measles virus. Hers was the first measles-related death in the United States since 2003.