The CDC tells us that there have 378 confirmed cases of measles in the US so far this year. That works out to be
378/340 million = 1.11 cases per million
The Canadian government reports that there have been 278 confirmed cases in 2025.
278/41.5 million = 6.70 cases per million
DB2
Those are interesting stats. Here is another to consider.
Of this 378 cases in the US, 327 have been in Texas. With a population of just under 32 million that means that TX has about 10.3 cases per million. I think we can see where the problem is in the US.
The outbreak in Texas appears to be concentrated in Mennonite communities, which disapprove of vaccines. Most of the cases were in Ontario, which has a large Mennonite population.
Darwin bats last.
Measles has a low fatality rate and does not really cause infertility. However, they can also get diseases that do have higher fatality AND sterilization rates. But that is the cost they are willing to pay.
I have trouble accepting they as the correct subject of the verb phrase willing to pay as the adults refuse to pay rhe time and care while the invaccinated children pay the piper.
The parents do not pay the price. However, their hereditary line could be ended due to their choice. Males can be made sterile, so their family name ends with the choice made to not have children vaccinated. Punishment by God ?? LOL !!! How appropriate.
The parents will only care about the short-term future. If their boys are sterile, the parents committed SINS AGAINST GOD and are being punished in their lifetime so they see the consequences of their sinfulness.
umm…isn’t that mumps? I remember my mom shrieking that, if I caught mumps, as an adult, it could sterilize me. I was thinking, “so, what’s the downside?”
Steve
The shot is MMR–so, if they missed one, they missed all. Better to get the parents scared so the kids get the vaccine than not.
There was no vax when mom was going hysterical about my getting older, and never having had the mumps.
Steve
Although there was a mumps vaccine in the late 1940’s, it was pretty ineffective and lasted only months. The real vaccine came about in the late 60’s, and I didn’t have it. I also never had mumps as a child.
Does that mean that if I get mumps I could be sterile and unable to have children? At age 78 that would really be disheartening.
Protected by herd immunity mostly. Anti-vaxers lack it.
Not only MMR…anti vaxxers (and those persuaded by the anti-science arguments) don’t just avoid the one. TDaP is another…and apparently polio. With the spillover to flu and Covid-19.
Pediatricians must be so familiar with this. When my granddaughter was just born, dh and I were visiting and gaping at her loveliness, and the neonatal pediatrician also visited to do a check. In the middle of the exam he tentatively broached the subject of childhood vaccines and their importance. Daughter stopped him in his tracks…no antivaxxers here, she pointed out. I’m a vet, he (gramps) is a hepatologist and she (me) is a dentist. All scientists here.