The next epidemic could be home grown

Measles is wildly contagious, can linger in air for hours, and kills 1/1000 it infects. It also kinda resets your immune system so you can get sick from everything you’ve been sick from again, like you are a toddler in preschool

Interestingly, in a 1990 SC case that denied religious freedoms to Native Americans and privileged the rights of the gov’t, *Scalia,* the darling of conservatives, says religious beliefs don’t give ppl the right to reject “compulsory vaccination laws.”

The rest of the world stares in disbelief.

https://www.unicef.org/health/childhood-diseases

Meanwhile Russia persuades Americans to become anti-vaxers.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-02-25/heres-what-putins-disinformation-war-looks-like-on-the-internet

Putin’s Long War Against American Science
by William J. Broad


A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions and encouraged the spread of deadly illnesses.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/9357/

How Vaccines Have Changed Our World

The data in this graphic come from the web site of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, but a graphic designer in Purchase, N.Y., named Leon Farrant has created a graphic that drives home what the data mean.

Below is a look at the past morbidity (how many people became sick) of what were once very common infectious diseases, and the current morbidity in the U.S.

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via How Vaccines Have Changed Our World In One Graphic – Forbes.