As measles cases continue to rise around the globe, the World Health Organization warns it’s a signal that other disease outbreaks could soon follow.

The surging number of measles cases around the world is a stark warning sign that outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable diseases could be next, the World Health Organization warned Friday.

“It’s crucial to understand why measles matters,” said Dr. Kate O’Brien, director of the WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals. “Its high transmissibility means that even small drops in vaccine coverage can trigger outbreaks, like a fire alarm going off when smoke is detected first.”

That is, measles is often the first disease to pop up when vaccination rates overall drop.

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    1 day ago

    love how the media is so scared of trump that they can’t even hint about how this is all literally a direct consequence of pridefully ignorant magahat antivaxxer morons who would actually cut their own balls off for trump just because he makes them feel like it’s totally fine to be bigoted racist rapist assholes

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      The outbreaks started under Biden. Vaccination and countering viral spread in general has been undermined by successive governments around the globe to get people back to work despite Covid still causing damage to a lot of people, including deaths, and the main causality has been public health.

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      Sometimes I wish there was some scientifically curated fiction where vaccines came from this high altitude tibetan super moss and it was bio and all that bullshit anti vaxxers want to hear. It could work

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      that could be one reason but I’d guess the main reason why they don’t single out the trump aligned antivax crowd is because they don’t want to alienate trump supporters (that’s like over half of the us population)

      the people this information needs to get to the most are those antivaxxers, it matters more that they get vaccinated and less that we learn of their mistakes