The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north
Governments across Latin America are stepping up efforts to vaccinate their populations against measles, as outbreaks in North America drive a 34-fold increase in the number of cases reported in the region this year.
Measles cases have surged worldwide to a 25-year high, due to low vaccine coverage and the spread of misinformation about vaccine safety. However, there is added concern in parts of Latin America over unequal access to healthcare and the worrying situation in the US, which is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades following a reversal of vaccine policy led by Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
“The US’s political position in relation to health and vaccination is an outrage,” said Rosana Richtmann, an infectious disease doctor and coordinator of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Disease’s immunisation committee. “It’s a problem for us.”
Fuck antivaxxers with a wire brush
I’m convinced that covid was lab-leaked and the covid vax was intentionally bungled to radicalize difficult free-thinking people into voluntarily refusing future vaccines for the next, very deadly pandemic. This will kind of “kill two birds with one stone”, without the government having to go around imprisoning or executing people that would normally be very difficult to deal with.
The COVID vaccine wasn’t bungled though. It was a remarkably speedy and successful use of mRNA technology, and a great proof of how effective that approach to vaccines can be. If anything was bungled about it, it was leaving it in the sole possession of for-profit drug companies so that rich countries would have better access to it.
What bungling did you have in mind?
They can’t hear you over the crinkling of their tinfoil hat
Oh, i can hear. No tinfoil hat here. The vaccine was effective for most, but should have never been forced on anyone. The heavy handed application of the vaccine created a subculture of antivaxxers that will conveniently remive themselves from the equation during the next pandemic.
Mandatory vaccines saved lives
Those who are too stupid and selfish caused harm to others.
Every dead antivaxxer makes the world a slightly better place
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Don’t breed.
I got vaccinated. I just feel like this was a perfect way to get a lot of difficult people out of the way.
lol wut
