The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north
Governments across Latin America are stepping up efforts to vaccinate their populations against measles, as outbreaks in North America drive a 34-fold increase in the number of cases reported in the region this year.
Measles cases have surged worldwide to a 25-year high, due to low vaccine coverage and the spread of misinformation about vaccine safety. However, there is added concern in parts of Latin America over unequal access to healthcare and the worrying situation in the US, which is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades following a reversal of vaccine policy led by Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
“The US’s political position in relation to health and vaccination is an outrage,” said Rosana Richtmann, an infectious disease doctor and coordinator of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Disease’s immunisation committee. “It’s a problem for us.”
I’m against the death penalty, but for anti vaxers I’ll make an exception, and they should die by being infected with preventable diseases until they die.
That way, maybe maybe they’ll finally understand that not only they’re full of shit, but also that they directly brought completely preventable suffering and death to men, wonen, and children.
These people, to me, are mass murderers and should be treated as such. String those ignorant fuckers from the highest tree for all I care, they will have to sit in the same circle of hell as Hitler and his buddies