ATLANTA --- The number of measles cases in the U.S. is at its highest level since 1997, and nearly half of those involve children whose parents rejected vaccination, government health officials reported Thursday.
The number of cases is still small, just 131, but that's just for the first seven months of the year, and doctors are troubled by the trend. There were only 42 cases for all of last year. None of the 131 patients died, but 15 were hospitalized.
Measles, best known for a red skin rash, is a potentially deadly, highly infectious virus that spreads through contact with a sneezing, coughing, infected person.
It is no longer endemic to the United States, but every year some Americans pick it up while traveling abroad and bring it home.
In a typical year, only one outbreak occurs in the United States. So far this year through July there have been seven outbreaks, health officials said. Childhood vaccination rates for measles continue to exceed 92 percent, but outbreak pockets seem to be forming.
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As long as we have all of the immigrants from 3rd world countries invading the USA, the number of eradicated viruses will continue to rise...
This type information always tries to imply that vaccinations are great and everone should get all they can. Vaccinations will prove to be a huge source of childhood problems.
This information shows that those who did not have the vaccination had less measles cases than those who did. This is like the local news media saying get your flu shot because 35,000 died one year because of the flu. I called the CDC and the number was 1400.
You cannot trust numbers that have no source and that will create profits. Also you must be in charge of your own health and do your own research. Watch out for health screenings. One of their purposes is to hopefully get you on a money making drug.
Fat and cholesterol have nothing to do with heart disease. Cholesterol will prove to be the greatest fraud every pulled on the American people.
Check last Sunday's Columbia County News Times and you can see how to use muscle testing to improve health for free.
Do your own research. God wants you well and didn't design your body to need drugs.
If you are over 65 and not feeling good you should consider that it is being caused by a prescription drug before considering anythng else