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A friend of mine works for the New York City Department of Health and closely follows the current measles outbreak. According to him, the outbreak (and the rejection of vaccination) can be tied very strongly to certain religious group.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6236a5.htm?mobile...

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Wait....this is the largest outbreak since 1996 and all that happened was one kid got pneumonia and one woman had a miscarriage? These things happen every day. Seems like a lot of money, work, and debate over a relatively minute issue.

Even in that larger 1996 outbreak nobody died.

And we've got people comparing vaccine refusal to child abuse! If that's child abuse, you're going to have to take a serious look at every parent of an illiterate grade schooler. And while you're at it, your child abuse radar should be going crazy whenever you see an obese toddler.

"And while you're at it, your child abuse radar should be going crazy whenever you see an obese toddler."

What makes you think it doesn't?

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