01-23-2013, 06:19 PM
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Apocalypse
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Here's the kind of stuff that is happening because of fear mongering people like wehateporn:
Measles Returns: Many in U.S. at Risk From "Eradicated" Disease, Experts Warn
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The outbreaks appear to be the result of two factors, experts say: the use of ineffective vaccines on some children born in the mid-1960s, and a more recent reluctance among some Americans to get vaccinated.
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Polio Making Rapid Comeback, Poses Epidemic Risk, Scientists Say
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"There seems to be some degree of reluctance to accept the vaccine, and this is reflected in numerous newspaper articles and the occasional fatwa [Islamic religious ruling]."
WHO's Jafari in New Delhi believes the local media there are compounding the problem.
"There is a lot of misinformation in newspapers and the media about the safety of the vaccine," he said.
Some communities believe the polio vaccine makes children impotent and sterile. Press reports in Urdu?the language of many South Asian Muslims?have helped propagate the myths. In some areas of Moradabad, vaccination teams have even been attacked for trying to administer immunizations.
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