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kstenerud | 3 days ago

They still are. Measles was on the road to being eradicated until 10 years ago.

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jazz9k|3 days ago

The part you are leaving out is that illegals (now in the millions), living in the US are almost never vaccinated for measles.

atwrk|3 days ago

The part you are leaving out is treating them solely as "illegals" means these people will avoid going to physicians to get their shots, because they would risk deportation.

The obvious solution for better health for all would be providing public and freely accessible locations for getting these shots, or mobile teams providing them at schools etc.

testing22321|3 days ago

Is there any issue in US society that is NOT caused by “illegals”

It’s incredible how dominant they are!

Cthulhu_|3 days ago

Can you cite some sources? Because most countries have a functioning vaccination program, in part thanks to now-cancelled USAID funding. But vaccination rates have been dropping, just like in the US. https://www.unicef.org/lac/en/press-releases/latin-america-a...

Your comment reads like anti-immigrant propaganda. If USAID were to be restored, the US could use its vast wealth to improve global health. But the current US regime is decisively anti-vax and wants everyone to suffer unnecessarily from preventable disease.

analog31|3 days ago

Vaccinate them. That's a policy failure.

mikeyouse|3 days ago

Yet the measles outbreak in Northern Mexico was caused by antivax white mennonites who brought it from Texas. Turns out there are subpopulations everywhere who need to be vaccinated - if only we had evidence-based people in charge of public health instead of wellness grifters.