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Measles cases hit record high in Europe (bbc.co.uk)
4 points by louthy on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> The majority of cases we are seeing are in teenagers and young adults who missed out on their MMR vaccine when they were children.

The vaccines->autism paper by Wakefield came out 1998, so teenagers were born after that. Correlation/causation etc, but it'd be surprising if the media frenzy which followed didn't affect the vaccination rate.

Also, according to this report measles diagnosed in Europe: 2016 -- 5,273; 2017 -- 23,927; 2018 -- 41,000 (to date)

Grim.




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