‘We were smart enough to eradicate measles, but arrogant enough to invite it back. Welcome to a four-part series on the precise ways we’re fucking up 50 years of medical progress. ‘ By Leigh Cowart
The great Persian physician Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī carefully documented this little strand of RNA tucked in a protein envelope and which has enjoyed a rare kind of notoriety, even in the shock-and-awe world of infectious diseases.
In 1529, the Spanish introduced it to Cuba, killing two out of three natives. Over the next decade or so, the virus ravaged Central America, decimating many populations and killing up to half of all Hondurans. And in 1693 in colonial America, Virginia governor Edmund Andros issued a proclamation for a “day of Humiliation and Prayer” in the hope of waylaying the virus.
It is one of the leading causes of death among young children, despite our ability to safely vaccinate against it. It is estimated that between the years of 2000 and 2013, vaccination has prevented 15.6 million deaths.
But please read for yourself.
And if you are an anti vaccine being, hang you head in shame. THERE IS NO AND I STRESS ABSOLUTELY NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF THAT VACCINATION CAUSE AUTISM AND IF YOU ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IT REMEMBER ONE PERSON WITH MEASLES CAN INFECT UP TO 18 UNVACIINATED PEOPLE AND SOME OF THEM MAY BE BABIES WHO WILL DIE.
Feb 13, 2015 @ 10:10:03
Aardeland! Baie interessant. Amper so iets soos maak kakerlakke dood, doen ons dit wel, dan oorval die kieme ons.
Soms dink ek ons verstaan ook nie die natuur se peste en plae heeltemal nie. Maar eks bietjie groen op hierdie gebied.
Feb 13, 2015 @ 13:32:36
van die moeders in die VSA glo dat inentings outisme veroorsaak…. Dis weier hulle om hulle kinder te laat inent. Toe, by een van die Disneylands het n persoon met masels n klomp mense aangesteek en dit het soort van n nuwe epidemie geword. ongelooflik watter soort twak di mensdom sal glo en hoe ouers die term ‘genetiese disposisie’ as hulle skuld beskou. Ek skat ek hoort op n seepkissie.
Feb 13, 2015 @ 14:26:11
In Africa we live with horror stories. As far as vaccinations go I think it`s like cancer you either have the gene or you don`t.There are very few cases of any reaction to them considering how many people have had vaccinations even since I had mine over 70 years ago.
Feb 13, 2015 @ 14:32:42
We never knew about autism. It was probably regarded as schizophrenia. Now it can be blamed on vaccinations. By some of the uneducated!
Feb 14, 2015 @ 08:25:02
It seems mostly people with these strange diets that are very much against vaccinations.
Feb 14, 2015 @ 09:20:59
I am totally p***** with the human race. I prefer animals and only donate to animals 😊
Feb 15, 2015 @ 17:00:45
Same as our woolies card we put it down for `Paws` as they can at least make a difference ,because the animals don`t have a choice.
Feb 16, 2015 @ 05:28:13
Good for you!
Feb 14, 2015 @ 05:36:48
Some people in this world are just plain stupid Fletch and I wish they could make meds for folks like that.
Feb 14, 2015 @ 06:38:15
But being a danger to society makes rhem criminals
Feb 14, 2015 @ 07:52:38
Dankie vir die insiggewende bloginskrywing.
Feb 14, 2015 @ 09:19:11
Baie dankie. Die maselstorie van Disneyland het bewys hoe maklik n epidemie weer kan uitbreek want mense reis mos!
Feb 14, 2015 @ 14:07:38
Hoe absoluut sotlik kan mense wees!Die toename in renosterslagting het begin toe een of ander simpel Viëtnamese minister verkondig het dat die horingpoeier sy kanker genees het.Wat het geword van wetenskaplike navorsing?In hierdie wêreld van inligting is mense steeds ongelooflik ingelig.
Feb 15, 2015 @ 06:27:33
Mense word dommer by die dag…. En oningeligtheid en bygelowe gaan nog die mens se ondergang beteken. Van n suur Fletcher.
Feb 15, 2015 @ 06:29:45
Ongelukkig is daar in hierdie eeu van massas inligting,soveel twak waaruit mens moet sif,dat mense nooit slimmer sal word nie.
Feb 15, 2015 @ 06:33:11
En soveel waninligting word natuurlik deur die internet versprei. As mense n sin begin met ‘hulle sê’ dan hol ek sommer. 🙂
Feb 15, 2015 @ 14:25:23
Ek vra altyd wie is daardie “hulle”
Feb 16, 2015 @ 05:27:55
hulle het dit erens gelees of gehoor… Kannie nou onthou nie.
Feb 18, 2015 @ 21:40:51
Some people have no common sense… I’m just shaking my head…
Feb 19, 2015 @ 05:44:43
Can you imagine they travel to Africa where some have never been inoculated and so cause an epidemic?
Feb 20, 2015 @ 01:24:26
Wow, awful! I heard that some doctors in North America are banning people not inoculated against measles from entering their offices.
Feb 20, 2015 @ 05:52:39
I have read that too. To think this is a disease that was being eradicated……….