Misinformed anti-vaxxers risk a return of once-beaten diseases [View all]

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https://www.ocregister.com/2024/05/17/misinformed-anti-vaxxers-risk-a-return-of-once-beaten-diseases/

There is no major crisis yet, but California and the rest of America are currently under unquestionable threat of a variety of epidemics, some of which could be crippling or fatal.

Make no mistake: This is the work of anti-vaccination activists led by current independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was working to discredit vaccinations long before the COVID-19 pandemic, even as he denied being an anti-vaxxer.

RFK Jr., milking his assassinated father’s name and reputation for all he’s worth, maintained in a Congressional hearing that “I have never been anti-vaxx. I have never told the public to avoid vaccination.” But just last July, he also said, “There is no vaccine that is safe and effective.”

Hey Junior, ever heard of the Sabin polio vaccine? Thanks to that one, there were no – zero – cases of the crippling polio virus detected in this country between 1979 and 2013, a 34-year period unprecedented in world history. No such thing as a safe and effective vaccine?

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https://www.ocregister.com/2024/05/17/misinformed-anti-vaxxers-risk-a-return-of-once-beaten-diseases/

Measles causes fever, rash, coughs, runny nose, and red, watery eyes. Complications can include ear infections, coughs, brain damage and even death. Consequences of diphtheria include difficulty breathing, heart rhythm problems and occasionally death. Besides its trademark of a whooping cough, pertussis can cause nervousness, dry mouth and nausea, among other symptoms.

Each of these is highly contagious, with vaccination the only certain defense against them for those exposed to infected persons.