UK loses measles elimination status, WHO confirms

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-loses-measles-elimination-status-33305345

34 Comments

  1. Come_in_sigh_demi on

    Surely parents should be getting in trouble if they don’t try and protect their children?

  2. I guess we have Andrew Wakefield to thank for this. More than 2 decades later and his legacy is still harming people.

  3. I genuinely think anti-vax people who cause outbreaks or deaths due to their own willful ignorance (including by refusing to vaccinate their children) should be prosecuted and jailed. There’s no excuse.

  4. I just cannot wrap my head around parents endangering their kids like this. We have a 4-month-old, and I can’t imagine denying her of something that could be potentially life-saving.

  5. Anti-vaxxers are biological terrorists spreading pain and death through ignorance and misinformation.

    You’d be considered a terrorist if you went into restaurants and put anthrax into their salt shakers. Anti-vaxxers are killing people too.

  6. Protean_Protein on

    Check your titres, everyone! As an adult, you may discover that your childhood vaccine for measles wasn’t enough and you’re no longer producing antibodies—worth looking into getting a booster with this shit happening and idiots travelling.

  7. Reform will blame migrants, whilst still being funded by their anti-vaxxer American chums.

  8. 2EscapedCapybaras on

    Can’t be arrested in the UK for not protecting your kids with an effective vaccine but you can be arrested for offending someone in an online post. What a fucked up world.

  9. Antivaxxers are a deadly threat to civilization. Vaccinations should be mandatory for everyone. The only exceptions should be approved by a doctor.

  10. Relevant-Doctor187 on

    Murphy says measles does a one off mutation that renders the vaccine useless. Because it was allowed to spread by idiots.

  11. I think we should bring back leper colonies but for anti-vaxxers. You think the MMR shot is woke propaganda? Ok, you and your kids can go live in this sequestered corner of the country with the rest of your ilk, see how well that “natural immunity” serves you.

  12. postconsumerwat on

    Maybe there is some virus or fungus that causes people to avoid vaccination as part of its survival…

  13. It won’t take long before immigrants are blamed, but this is fully on the stupidest people on earth, the anti vaxxers