Anti-vaxxers have helped bring back measles with a vengeance. Polio may be next.

Title is a bit misleading, isn’t it? When I hear “anti-vaxxer” I think Jenny McCarthy, not some dusty beturbaned guy with an AK-47 in The Tribal Regions.

If it comes back to the United States, the Pacific Northwest will be the first to see it.

Old folks can't get it 'cause we got the vaccine in the early '60s.

So I don't care what idiotic parents do to their spawn.

Fucking millennials.

As a child, I was vaccinated against measles and STILL got them twice; once as a teenager and once as an adult.

What do you care? If you have your vaccine you aren't going to get it, and those who don't will die off.

My twins Oliver and Olivia got measles from some filthy foreigner when we went to Barcelona last year, and almost died, but at least they'll never get autism.

It's possible [R5] that what you had twice was German measles, a distinctly different strain (and actually the plot line in The Mirror Cracked) I was vaccinated against everything in the world, and got German measles.

R8 German measles as an adult. Garden-variety measles as a teenager.

[quote]As a child, I was vaccinated against measles and STILL got them twice; once as a teenager and once as an adult.

[quote]R8] German measles as an adult. Garden-variety measles as a teenager.

And this is why we have anti-vaxxers

[quote]Rubella, also called German measles or three-day measles, is a contagious viral infection best known by its distinctive red rash. Rubella is not the same as measles (rubeola), though the two illnesses do share some characteristics, including the red rash

You did not get measles twice. You got each disease once.

[quote]But the good news is, fully vaccinated people who get measles are much more likely to have a milder illness. And fully vaccinated people are also less likely to spread the disease to other people, including people who can't get vaccinated because they are too young or have weakened immune systems.

Getting a vaccine is still better than not getting one.

I just feel bad for babies too young to be vaccinated but plan to be who will be exposed to these diseases and will suffer needlessly. I don't particularly care if the anti-vaxxers' kids die.

"If it comes back to the United States, the Pacific Northwest will be the first to see it. "

No, California will be first! Just as many idiots who think their spawn are too precious for vaccination, more flights in and out of other countries!

Fine, whatever, it's all Nature's plan for natural selection. If people who are too stupid to understand the benefits of vaccination breed, they next generation will be taken out of the gene pool and humanity will be better off for it in the long run.

Thanks Russia.

It's not impossible(but very unlikely) to get measles more than once, especially if you have a compromised immune system, such as HIV.