“It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they’d known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family,” she said.

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    we had eradicated it

    Clearly we hadn’t.

    We horded the vaccine domestically, patented efficient methods for manufacturer and distribution, and curtailed it’s use in states we considered too poor or too evil.

    Some of the highest rates of measles today can be found in Yemen, a country we’ve been bombing since the early '10s.

    We didn’t exterminate the disease. We incubated it. And now we’re reaping what we’ve sown.

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      we also curtail other vaccines too, like HPV limited to women MOSTLY unless some how you can convince your doc/insurance to approve it, Meningicoccal menigitis vaccine, we know majority isnt “susceptible” enough to be eligble but still.