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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMegachurch and Measles Outbreak
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"A Texas megachurch whose leaders have linked vaccines to autism is now asking its members to get immunizations or stay quarantined after an outbreak of measles was traced to the congregation."
Dang science and medicine--connecting the measle dots, at last.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/23/vaccine-fearing-texas-megachurch-urges-flock-to-immunize-after-measles-outbreak/
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Megachurch and Measles Outbreak (Original Post)
kairos12
Aug 2013
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. Never really understood why fundamentalists have a problem with medicine.
From their own point of view - in the Bible, St. Luke was a physician.
So it shouldn't be a problem.
But I don't expect the right wing to be internally consistent.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)2. That danged old Saytun
Snucked in and fucked up the church!
TexasTowelie
(112,160 posts)3. The count is up to 21 cases.
kairos12
(12,858 posts)4. Children suffering for no good reason. It's a shame really.