• 30
  Oct
  2011

• New Measles Outbreak After 15 Year Lull

  
  Filed Under: Blogging
  Author: YourGuy

When a report came out earlier this year about a link between autism and the measles vaccination, parents began to think twice about the MMR (Measles-Mumps-Rubella) shots and booster shots.  Thus when an unvaccinated student traveled overseas, he ended up getting sick and contaminating 9 others when he got back. Without the shots and the international health insurance, the local government ended up spending $300,000 just to stop the contamination from spreading. If the student got booster shots as well as international travel health insurance, the results would probably have been different.

In the first place, the report linking autism to the MMR shots is unsubstantiated. There is no proof to this allegation or no study that can even slightly confirm the possibility of a link. The measles outbreak included having to quarantine almost 185 people who were believed to have had close contact with the student. The same situation is happening in Canada with an outbreak of 757 cases because of unvaccinated persons.

Over the years the MMR vaccination has significantly caused the incidents of measles to drop from 4 million to a less than 70 a year. Thus, the outbreak is cause for alarm and a warning sign for parents to think again about having their children given the MMR vaccine.

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