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20. The foreshortened scale also makes it hard to see what's happening. 1988-1991 there was also

Wed Jan 22, 2014, 02:42 AM

Jan 2014

a spike; in 1991 there were 9500 cases, affecting mainly preschool children (even though it used to be primary school children who were mainly affected). Your graph shows the highest # of cases to be about 225, in 2011. That's an increase from 2010, but a huge decrease from 1991.

To see any pattern, you need a longer view, since "spikes" are a fairly regular occurrence. Measles outbreaks have a cyclical incidence pattern, and that has always been the case.

At any rate, MMR vaccination coverage has been over 90% for some time, and Jenny McCarthy didn't change that.

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The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one devastating graphic. [View all] JaneyVee Jan 2014 OP

The willfully stupid Ohio Joe Jan 2014 #1

Or in one misleading graphic, perhaps. El_Johns Jan 2014 #2

That graph stops at 2008 kcr Jan 2014 #4

It never particularly went down. And it's been above 90% for a long time. El_Johns Jan 2014 #6

Not my graphic kcr Jan 2014 #35

By including everything back to 1954, the scale makes it a little hard to see what's happening. TrollBuster9090 Jan 2014 #13

The foreshortened scale also makes it hard to see what's happening. 1988-1991 there was also El_Johns Jan 2014 #20

And that is the key graph. nt stevenleser Jan 2014 #33

Oh, Hannah. Are you really arguing in favour of the anti-vaccination movement?... SidDithers Jan 2014 #36

I got Whooping Cough in my early 40's....2002 alittlelark Jan 2014 #3

It's one thing to be a moron. These people are dangerous morons. alcibiades_mystery Jan 2014 #5

That, PLUS the rampant paranoia and distrust of 'government' and authority. In the old days, if TrollBuster9090 Jan 2014 #8

Dont you dare try to connect the two! davidn3600 Jan 2014 #11

The fact that government doesn't respect our privacy or our constitutional rights, and police TrollBuster9090 Jan 2014 #14

Are all those un-vaccinated kids being home-schooled? ReRe Jan 2014 #7

I dunno, but it's probably different now, because, you know ... brett_jv Jan 2014 #9

I know... ReRe Jan 2014 #12

Take your pick. There are at least 13 other things correlated with the rise of autism. TrollBuster9090 Jan 2014 #17

Thanks for that list... ReRe Jan 2014 #19

They've forgotten two other things. De Leonist Jan 2014 #23

The amniotic fluid has become a soup of countless industrial chemicals Hekate Jan 2014 #16

It probably has less to do with external influences Lordquinton Jan 2014 #21

In CA homeschooled kids have the same vaccine requirement as public or private schooled kids, LeftyMom Jan 2014 #18

MMR coverage of California children 19-35 mo was 94% in 2007. El_Johns Jan 2014 #22

+1 dreamnightwind Jan 2014 #24

The school by school exemption data tells a very different story. LeftyMom Jan 2014 #25

OK, CDC & Cal Dept of health are just a waste of the taxpayers' money. They don't know what's El_Johns Jan 2014 #26

The subthread was about school admission requirements and you're posting data about toddlers. LeftyMom Jan 2014 #27

I posted data about children up to 7th grade. El_Johns Jan 2014 #28

Marin county's exemption rate is 7.8% The very data you're posting show that you're wrong. LeftyMom Jan 2014 #30

But those prosperous white people aren't sufficiently numerous to affect total rates much. El_Johns Jan 2014 #31

CRE is a much bigger threat. Resistant to every anti-biotic , ErikJ Jan 2014 #10

Hadn't heard that name, so I looked it up ... brett_jv Jan 2014 #15

Whooping Cough Outbreak in North Texas dem in texas Jan 2014 #29

Jenny McCarthy should go back to picking boogers on MTV. longship Jan 2014 #32

+1 davidpdx Jan 2014 #34

DU rec...nt SidDithers Jan 2014 #37