Death toll of measles outbreak in Madagascar reaches 926 with babies most at risk | Daily Mail Online
More than 900 children and young adults have been killed by the measles epidemic in Madagascar, with babies most at risk of contracting the deadly virus.
There have been more than 68,000 cases of the disease since the outbreak began on the African island in September, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Low immunisation rates of under 60 per cent have been blamed for the high rate of measles in the poor nation over the years.
Those most at risk are infants from nine to 11 months old and malnourished children – and Madagascar has Africa's highest children's malnutrition rate at 47 per cent.
Anti vax nutters need to stfu.
How is this the anti-vaccination movement fault?
I sat maybe you should go down there and help with the vaccination of everyone...
It's not their fault; it is their argument that could mean the same happening here.
Will not happen here at all unless you turn America into a third world shit hole like many wish for.
Tommy would be wise to go after the anti-vaccine group with outbreaks here and not some third world shit hole.
Just sayin!
I visited a school for the deaf, once. Most of the kids had multiple handicaps, such as CP, MR, uncontrolled epilepsy, and some were basically vegetables. The staff member explained that since the MMR vaccine, most students were not "just" blind or "just" deaf, with otherwise normal intelligence. Before the MMR vaccine, there were institutions everywhere for kids who were "just" deaf or blind. Thanks to measles and rubella.
It's true that most of us get through without a problem (as a kid, the measles went through every year, and no one died or became blind), fortunately.
Most were affected in the womb, when their mothers caught rubella early in the pregnancy. Regular measles, though, can also cause hearing loss due to one case in ten resulting in pneumonia or ear infections; ear infections can lead to hearing loss,
