So far, 2019 has been a great year for comebacks. First, the Jonas Brothers are making a comeback and now the measles virus is back. Measles, a virus that was actually eradicated in the U.S. in 2000 has resurfaced. This year, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has documented six outbreaks of the virus all due to the asinine anti-vaccine movement.
Anti-vaccine movements pose a grave risk to society by putting people at risk to diseases that are entirely preventable if people would just stop believing the pseudoscientific rants of some anti-vax mom blog that claims that vaccines gave her child the plague or some other ridiculous idea. And measles isn’t the only disease showing up. Just this month it has brought to national attention that a six-year-old spent 57 days in a hospital and almost died because of tetanus, another completely preventable disease. People need to stop believing in pseudoscientific beliefs about vaccine when there is evidence to support the effectiveness of vaccines.
Vaccines are not just thrown together in a van on the side of a road. They are carefully researched and FDA approved compounds that are proven to be safe a effective. So in the future, think that maybe a qualified scientist knows more about human health than some conspiracy theorist on the internet does.
