skhayfa@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTexas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growingarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square128fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down11
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minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIt depends on how badly we’ve fallen under herd immunity, but it does seem likely. You can catch measles by entering a room, such as a classroom, where another student had measles two hours before. Unvaccinated people are going to pay for the ignorance of their parents real soon.
minus-squareskhayfa@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoUnvaccinated, immunocompromised and babies under 2 years old are at risk. Vaccination is a collective effort to protect the most vulnerable.
minus-squarearamis87@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoPeople born after 1957 and vaxxed before 1967 (vax was less effective), people who only got a single shot until the mid-70’s (accidentally under-vaxxed), immune compromised/suppressed …
It depends on how badly we’ve fallen under herd immunity, but it does seem likely.
You can catch measles by entering a room, such as a classroom, where another student had measles two hours before.
Unvaccinated people are going to pay for the ignorance of their parents real soon.
Unvaccinated, immunocompromised and babies under 2 years old are at risk. Vaccination is a collective effort to protect the most vulnerable.
People born after 1957 and vaxxed before 1967 (vax was less effective), people who only got a single shot until the mid-70’s (accidentally under-vaxxed), immune compromised/suppressed …