DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outbreak

Re:DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outb... by beagle3 on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @06:47PM (#21997021)

People who are immunocompromised or who have an autoimmune condition may get serious complications from vaccines. It is, in fact, a well known contraindication.

Some people do not know they are in one of those groups, and ARE likely to experience harm. These groups (unaware immune issues) are statistically insignificant compared to the entire population, of course.

But ignoring them is in fact contributing to the antivax movement; primes are statistically rare but if you told people they don’t exist, you would be working for the antimath movement.

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Re:DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outb... by bipson on Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:53AM (#22000426)

I fully agree.

The problem is: Even to well educated parents the summary "Everyone could be affected by life-long effects due to vaccination" has a drastically different meaning compared to an objective bystander that looks at the real numbers, and this leads to (seemingly irrational) decisions. Some even are mislead into feeding crusades against this "well known danger called vaccination".

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