Vaccination & epidemic

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

If the only datapoint being considered
is new cases of some form of measles, then yes, we've gone backward.
That datapoint, however, says nothing about why this might be occurring.
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Nothing we do operates in a vacuum, and you can't limit assessment
of a situation to a single datapoint.

It's not at all just a single data point... here is a layman-summary of CDC reports for US.

webmd.com
April 19, 2012

Measles Cases, Outbreaks Quadruple in 2011
Unvaccinated Children, Teens at Risk

Measles cases are spiking sharply in the U.S., the CDC reported today.

The 222 cases and 17 outbreaks seen in 2011 are nearly four times
the median of 60 cases and four outbreaks per year seen over the last decade.
A third of patients were hospitalized.

The surge in cases is largely due to people who have not been vaccinated
with the measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine, the CDC says.
A significant percentage of these people are children and teens
whose parents exempted them from school vaccination requirements.

"Unvaccinated people put themselves and others at risk
-- particularly infants too young to be vaccinated,
who can have the most severe complications,"
Anne Schuchat, MD, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases,
said at a news conference held to announce the new report.
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Vaccine refusal is more common in Europe than in the U.S.
The result: more than 37,000 measles cases in Europe last year.
Five countries account for 90% of the cases: France, Italy, Romania, Spain, and Germany.

Nine out of 10 U.S. measles cases could be linked either to a U.S. resident
who was infected in a foreign country or to foreign visitors to the U.S.
Many of these travelers imported measles from Europe.

Regarding "atypical measles", there were a few (<50) cases reported in 1981
among children immunized 10-15 yrs previously (~1965) with an early form of vaccine.
In my searches for "atypical measles" I so far have found no additional reports
of that "disease" associated with current CDC recommendations for MMR vaccine.