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25k cases in Europe every year? Can anyone provide any context around what appears to be a shockingly high number?

by doktrin 13y ago

adventured 13y ago
It's almost exclusively due to the lack of vaccination. "In 2007, 3,104 (87%) measles cases in Europe were unvaccinated" "However, this controversy [autism claims] resulted in the proportion of children in the United Kingdom who received their first vaccine dose by 2 years of age decreasing from a high of 92.5% during April–June 1995 to a low of 78.9% during the same period in 2003." http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_1/S353.long http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_1/S353.long And "In the year ending April 30, 2012, a total of 17,448 measles cases were repoted in the European Union and Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway" "Vaccination status was known for 84 percent of the cases, of which 82 percent had never received the vaccine, 13 percent had received one dose, and 4 percent had received two or more doses" http://www.forbes.com/sites/gerganakoleva/2012/07/02/what-recent-measles-and-rubella-outbreaks-in-europe-can-teach-the-u-s/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/gerganakoleva/2012/07/02/what-re...
radicalbyte 13y ago
1. In the UK the tabloids (Daily Mail, Mirror, Sun et al) publicized bogus scare stories about the MMR vaccine and autism. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/25/mmr-scare-analysis http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/25/mmr-scare-ana... 2. In The Netherlands, certain groups reject vaccines on religious grounds. Specifically the Dutch Reformed. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/measles_outbreak_hits_dutch_bi.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/measles_outbre... I'd assume that the cases in "rich" Europe are related. There are some pretty poor countries in Europe so I'd guess that that the majority of the cases will originate from there..

25k cases in Europe every year? Can anyone provide any context around what appears to be a shockingly high number?

by doktrin 13y ago

25k cases in Europe every year? Can anyone provide any context around what appears to be a shockingly high number?

It's almost exclusively due to the lack of vaccination. "In 2007, 3,104 (87%) measles cases in Europe were unvaccinated" "However, this controversy [autism claims] resulted in the proportion of children in the United Kingdom who received their first vaccine dose by 2 years of age decreasing from a high of 92.5% during April–June 1995 to a low of 78.9% during the same period in 2003." http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_1/S353.long http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_1/S353.long And "In the year ending April 30, 2012, a total of 17,448 measles cases were repoted in the European Union and Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway" "Vaccination status was known for 84 percent of the cases, of which 82 percent had never received the vaccine, 13 percent had received one dose, and 4 percent had received two or more doses" http://www.forbes.com/sites/gerganakoleva/2012/07/02/what-recent-measles-and-rubella-outbreaks-in-europe-can-teach-the-u-s/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/gerganakoleva/2012/07/02/what-re...

radicalbyte 13y ago

1. In the UK the tabloids (Daily Mail, Mirror, Sun et al) publicized bogus scare stories about the MMR vaccine and autism. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/25/mmr-scare-analysis http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/25/mmr-scare-ana... 2. In The Netherlands, certain groups reject vaccines on religious grounds. Specifically the Dutch Reformed. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/measles_outbreak_hits_dutch_bi.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/measles_outbre... I'd assume that the cases in "rich" Europe are related. There are some pretty poor countries in Europe so I'd guess that that the majority of the cases will originate from there..