UK measles cases at 18-year high because parents are failing to get children vaccinated

[SpartanDem]

Cases of measles are at a record high, health officials have warned.
In 2012, there were 2,016 cases of the potentially deadly disease in babies, children and adults in England and Wales.
This makes it the biggest outbreak since cases were first formally recorded almost 20 years ago.
The total is more than six times that of 2002 - and almost 40 times higher than 1998, when just 56 cases were documented.
With measles also rife in France, Italy and Spain, it is thought that some outbreaks were sparked by infections brought back from abroad by holidaymakers.

Vaccination of toddlers is high but there is particular concern that the disease, which is spread through coughing and sneezing, is hitting teenagers who were not given the MMR jab as babies.
This will include some whose parents feared the safety of the jab, following research by Dr Andrew Wakefield linking it to bowel problems and autism. This work has since been roundly discredited.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2275535/Measles-cases-18-year-high-parents-failing-children-vaccinated.html#axzz2KQbWc0iX

What a shock buying into anti-science bs has consequences.

[enlightenment]

1. I am fairly certain that I saw

a child with an active measles rash with her parents at a Chinese buffet the other day. There was a younger child that looked like she was developing the rash, as well.

This place is extremely popular with families - lots of food for a pretty cheap price. I felt like calling the Health department.