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With many cases stemming from an outbreak at a Jewish boys' summer camp upstate, more than 1,000 in New York and New Jersey are infected with the mumps, most of them Orthodox Jews. One camper—who caught the old-fashioned childhood disease in England where more than 4,000 are infected—spread the sickness to 25 of his bunk-mates, who then brought it home to their Orthodox communities. Many came from Borough Park, Brooklyn, where in October, 79 mumps sufferers were counted, reports CNN. But the numbers keep growing!
Today the CDC is slated to announce the exact number of confirmed cases in the city (we'll keep you updated). In the state, it's the largest mumps outbreak for five years, traced back to an 11-year-old at a sleep away camp in Sullivan County, NY. Most of those affected are teenagers between 14-18.
Of course there's a vaccine for mumps—a malady with symptoms such as fever, puffy jaws and cheeks and muscle aches—but it won't protect you 100 percent of the time. At the end of October health officials said that that in Borough Park “75% of the victims had the normal two doses of mumps vaccine.” (In Britain, where the outbreak began, they're not so big on vaccinating). Severe cases can lead to swelling of the brain, testicles/ovaries, and deafness.
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Darwin doesn't have to kill you to work.
if there's anything charles darwin enjoyed more than science, it's cackling at the suffering of sick children
Or their stupid parents.
Does anyone know the source of the picture and the original URL?
A Jan. 16, 1957 photo shows Greg Cox, left, 7, in Altamont, Ill., as he looks at his friend Jon Douglas, 6, through the doorway while he recovers from mumps. In the worst outbreak in more than 20 years, mumps cases are spilling out of Iowa, popping up in at least nine other Midwestern states.
Thanks!
Eh...I had measles, mumps and rubella before I was old enough to get the MMR vaccine.
Mumps are more prevalent in England because worries about the link between the combined MMR vaccine and autism were much more widespread, and the National Health Service refused to administer the three separately. The link has subsequently been disproved, and the reputation of the researcher that first posited a link has sunk, but the end result is a large number of unvaccinated English kids.
Yet there are still die hard parents who still believe in his nonsense of vaccine = autism theory in the UK. I feel sorry for those kids.
Jenny McCarthy went from making fart jokes on Mtv to fancying herself a medical research and this is where we are now. There is no link between vaccines and autism. Measels, smallpox, mumps and rubella are a helluva way to suffer or die. Not to mention that the vaccines will be useless if enough people don't innoculate.
People who don't vaccinate their child are assholes for buying into conspiracy therories championed by Playboy models with a highschool education.
Yeah, and the biggest issue is, it's not just their own kids they're hurting. They're hurting you, me, our kids and everyone else. They're completely ruining the ENTIRE POINT of vaccination, which is to eliminate diseases, not to prevent your individual little Timmy from getting sick.
Now here's a question: what do you do when your kid wants to play with Timmy? "Sorry, Tim kiddo, you can't come over to play. Unfortunately your parents are retarded."
I don't think the Orthodox Jewish community is getting their health advice from Jenny McCarthy, but it goes to show the consequences of not getting vaccinated.
I should have calirfied by saying that the Orthodox community may not be PLayboy subscribers, however, she and her idiot Hollywood ilk are largely to blame for the misinformation out there.
Also, I wonder if the orthodox kids are not enrolled in public schools and that became a contributing factor to the outbreak. You can't enroll in a PS without being innoculated.
FYI smallpox (apart from research and weaponized stocks) has been eradicated-through vaccination.
I think a lot of you are missing the fact that, among recent cases, "75% of the victims had the normal two doses of mumps vaccine.”
I don't know much about vax rates in this section of Orthodox Brooklyn, but it seems a lot of parents are indeed going for them. Mumps is a hard disease to fight even among those with vaxes, though it doesn't help when non-vax'd people help it get a toehold in communities.
You need approximately 95% vaccine rate in a community in order to get "herd immunity"