11-19-2018, 09:18 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46267038
A North Carolina school with a large anti-vaccine community is at the heart of the state's largest chickenpox outbreak in decades, officials say.
On Friday 36 students at Asheville Waldorf School were diagnosed with the disease, the Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper reported.
The school has one of the state's highest rates of religious exemption, allowing students to skip vaccination.
US health officials say vaccinating is far safer than getting chickenpox.
"This is the biggest chickenpox outbreak state health officials are aware of since the vaccine became available," a North Carolina Department of Health spokesman told the BBC in an emailed statement.
There's a lot of pseudoscientific conspiracy theories out there that are dumb, but ultimately harmless to anyone (or, at worst, harmless only to those who believe them). However, this cannot be said of anti-vaxxer nonsense - which is particularly despicable because of the dangers it presents to innocent children, of all people .
Hopefully, this outbreak will bring the parents to their senses (although, it really shouldn't have needed that in the first place...)
A North Carolina school with a large anti-vaccine community is at the heart of the state's largest chickenpox outbreak in decades, officials say.
On Friday 36 students at Asheville Waldorf School were diagnosed with the disease, the Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper reported.
The school has one of the state's highest rates of religious exemption, allowing students to skip vaccination.
US health officials say vaccinating is far safer than getting chickenpox.
"This is the biggest chickenpox outbreak state health officials are aware of since the vaccine became available," a North Carolina Department of Health spokesman told the BBC in an emailed statement.
There's a lot of pseudoscientific conspiracy theories out there that are dumb, but ultimately harmless to anyone (or, at worst, harmless only to those who believe them). However, this cannot be said of anti-vaxxer nonsense - which is particularly despicable because of the dangers it presents to innocent children, of all people .
Hopefully, this outbreak will bring the parents to their senses (although, it really shouldn't have needed that in the first place...)
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