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Faunsdale, AL | Give it up Greg. That type of testing is a research technique. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it’s a duck and ducks fly from place to place.
This is measles and like it always is, it was brought in by a person that was infected somewhere else. I’m no expert on Mennonites, but having known a few, one of the characteristics of the churches is they visit other churches a lot. Some of this is bound to include international travel to countries where measles is circulating. We have seen the evidence of this intermingling in the spread of cases from Texas into New Mexico and Oklahoma.
This is the same as all the other smaller outbreaks we have going on around the country at this time. The method of introduction is the same old story. What makes the difference between a case or a few cases and an ongoing outbreak like we’re seeing in the West Texas Mennonite community and is the vaccination rate of the community surrounding the person who brought it in.
If vaccination with the MMR vaccine was causing outbreaks, it would be an everyday occurrence because there’s kids getting vaccinated all the time all over. There’s some certainly getting vaccinated in the Seminole /Gaines county Texas community since the vaccination rate isn’t zero. Instead we see a Mennonite community that has stayed uninfected and unvaccinated for many years until an infected person brought in the virus just like happens all over the country.
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