By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik
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WASHINGTON—The number of measles cases in the U.S. has now surpassed the numbers in any year since 2001, the year the extremely contagious disease was officially declared eliminated. The findings, in a chilling report just released by the Centers for Disease Control, are actually an early sign that, due to right-wing politics, the nation’s entire public health system is on the verge of collapse.
They are also a clear indication that if there is not a massive increase in nationwide vaccination efforts, people getting sick and even dying from measles will be the new normal in the United States and, even worse, new epidemics of other diseases could soon follow.
That latter scenario of additional new epidemics is likely even if the measles scourge does not, by itself, become a pandemic like the coronavirus, which killed more than one million and resulted in 21 million cases of long COVID, often lasting a lifetime.
Miners often carried caged canaries into the mines with them. When the canaries fell dead off their perches, they knew it was time for them to clear out of the mine shafts before the coal gas got strong enough to kill them. Epidemiologists have often said that measles epidemics serve public health in a similar way. Once there is a measles epidemic, they note, it’s only a short time before numerous other viruses move in to sicken the public.
In the early 1950s, many children in the U.S. were infected with measles, and their families learned……READ MORE…
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