The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north
Governments across Latin America are stepping up efforts to vaccinate their populations against measles, as outbreaks in North America drive a 34-fold increase in the number of cases reported in the region this year.
Measles cases have surged worldwide to a 25-year high, due to low vaccine coverage and the spread of misinformation about vaccine safety. However, there is added concern in parts of Latin America over unequal access to healthcare and the worrying situation in the US, which is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades following a reversal of vaccine policy led by Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
“The US’s political position in relation to health and vaccination is an outrage,” said Rosana Richtmann, an infectious disease doctor and coordinator of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Disease’s immunisation committee. “It’s a problem for us.”
Yep, being anti-intellectual is the basic requirement. Only then it is possible to be anti-vaxx - because these people cannot grasp the concept of how vaccines work…
a) in the human body: So many people wrongly believe that vaccines are supposed to make you 100% immune from infection, and when the Covid vaccines failed to achieve this impossibility, they considered them worthless. They didn’t understand how lowering virus count and drastically improving your odds of survival were still huge wins for the Covid vaccine.
b) in society: People don’t seem to intuitively grasp the dynamics of how a certain degree of vaccination can stop a disease, and that it all comes down to statistics. If you don’t understand science, you don’t even get that there’s a threshold percentage required for herd immunity. So those anti-vaxx idiots don’t understand how vaccines protect other people by helping to achieve this threshold. They literally hurt everyone around them.
So yeah. Anti-intellectualism is the fundamental building block for all of this, and that’s why the Trump regime attacks education and universities. The less educated people are, the easier they fall for their bullshit.