Wow, so glad so many people are dOinG ThEiR oWN rESeArcH.

I swear to god, we are going to be our own Great Filter.

damn, i really hope a someone invents a vaccine for that soon...

Maybe maybe having laws and regulations controlling misinformation on social media would be a great thing. Social media have to be accountable for it with huge fines.

A social media isn't free speech or freedom of speech, it's in most case a private company making profits. When someone post something on Facebook or whatever else, it's cognitive work so meta in this case can make profits out of it. It's fine to regulate them on what can and can't be show to the user. These services are the street.

The other important point is to educate people in the schools. We need programs of education to vaccination. It's not magic. Virus and bacteria are still around. We didn't magically kill them with vaccination. We are immune to them being around thanks to vaccines. Next to this, we have to educate on how we develop them too.

An other point is mandatory and free vaccination. Vaccines are too important for the human health. We can't afford people not vaccinating their kids.

The majority of people refusing the measles jab also unlikely to have their biology homework copied. Not a coincidence.

Killing your own babies for literally no reason. Well done, humanity.

If I have the measles vaccine do I need to worry about this or can I just laugh while nature corrects itself

Our medical technology is too good at this point, we can keep the majority of the disease spreaders alive to continue spreading disease on purpose. A sad consequence of technological advancement.

Pre-covid it looks like the numbers were 12k-71k. This is 2x the rate of the late teens. Still bad, but statistics around abnormal events are fucky.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The virus practically disappeared in Europe during the COVID-19 lockdowns, but "the overall number of measles cases in the EU/EEA has been steadily increasing since June 2023," the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in its latest weekly threats report.

Last December, the country’s health ministry declared a national measles epidemic following a worrying rise in cases and a high number of hospitalisations among infected children.

Since the announcement, four unvaccinated people - three babies and one adult - died due to measles, according to local media and the National Institute of Public Health.

The UK's health authorities warned last Friday that the surge in the West Midlands could spread to other towns and cities unless urgent action is taken to boost vaccination uptake.

"With vaccine uptake in some communities so low, there is now a very real risk of seeing the virus spread in other towns and cities," said Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UKHSA.

Measles is a highly contagious viral illness that spreads easily when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes, according to the WHO, and "can cause severe disease, complications, and even death".

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Andrew Wakefield strikes again I see.

Measles vaccines have always been free in the UK and probably elsewhere too, if your kid gets measles it's your fault.

I feel like the only thing that could sound like a more British way to describe an alarming measles outbreak than “national incident” is “a National spot of bother”