Here"s The Not At All Fun Thing That Happens When Anti-Vaxxers Find "Success"
%Though British physician Andrew Wakefield"s fraudulent claims about the association between the MMR vaccine and autism in his 1998 research paper have long since been discredited, the anti-vaccine movement is unfortunately still going strong. Thanks to vaccines, measles was officially declared to be “eliminated” from the Americas last September, meaning that there have been no outbreaks originating in the U.S. for quite a while. Despite this major accomplishment, however, unfounded fears about vaccines causing autism have scared many parents into deciding against vaccinating their young children. Now as a direct result, there"s been an outbreak of measles in Minnesota.
There are 48 confirmed measles cases, most of which have occurred in unvaccinated Somali-American children who are under 10 years old. However, experts say this has more to do with the number of unvaccinated people in the small group rather than the Somali demographic. ..
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