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Faunsdale, AL | Yeah right******
……..the MMR vaccine does not spread from the vaccinated person to others in the community.
That is a problem with the oral polio vaccine we all took back in the day. While that vaccine on a sugar cube ended the polio outbreaks that were a scourge of modern society, it causes cases of polio in the unvaccinated/non-immune surrounding community, a few of which result in paralysis. So it’s no longer used in the US. Instead we use a killed virus vaccine which protects against getting paralyzed but does not prevent infection in the gut if a person is exposed later to a wild or vaccine derived strain.
So, our vaccinated kids today are protected from paralysis but not the virus. Unvaccinated kids can catch wild or imported (in the gut of people that have traveled to other countries) vaccine derived virus that is replicating in the gut of vaccinated adults and kids that are only protected against paralysis. The virus can be introduced to a community from international travelers because it is circulating in several parts of the world because of incomplete vaccination efforts due to poverty and war………and ignorance.
Wastewater surveillance here in the USA regularly detects polio virus when/if it’s done. Polio virus is here, not just in some far away country where you have to go, get infected and bring it home. It’s here because our kids and now young adults that got the killed vaccine and not the oral vaccine are not immune to the virus, just protected from getting paralyzed by it. This is a result of using the safer killed virus vaccine. Polio paralysis is always the tip of the iceberg. There are always many, many, many more cases of polio going on than the number of cases of paralysis.
In the case of the measles outbreak in Texas and other outbreaks around the country, when an unvaccinated or unlucky vaccinated person travels to a place where measles is spreading and brings it home into a community of young unvaccinated people, an outbreak inevitably occurs. Measles is probably the most contagious virus that affects people.
In contrast, when a person brings the virus into a highly vaccinated community, it quickly burns out and there’s no sustained transmission. Obviously not the case in TEXAS, hence the reason they were and are having vaccination campaigns!
The outbreak in Texas is the MEASLES (rubeola virus, ie what you’re calling the 10 day measles). Not that the rubella virus (what you call three day or German measles) is any better if an unvaccinated pregnant woman catches it. Look up congenital rubella syndrome for a chilling education about the dangers of vaccine preventable diseases.
Edited by ccjersey 4/12/2025 14:18
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