re: 2 confirmed cases of Measles in New Orleans area

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I'm interested in this one. If those illegals are bringing in diseases, why are y'all catching it? Did your kids get a "shot" and not a "vaccine?"

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Kids are unable to get the measles vaccine until they are around a year old. Then get the second round at 4-6 years old.

It's highly contagious. So folks getting vaccinated when they do reduces spread (and we had it eliminated here in 2000) and prevents those unvaccinated kids from getting sick until they are able to get the vaccine themselves.

Measles is capable of killing children who are unvaccinated. The larger issue is that it causes encephalitis, which can create life long disabilities if they recover from it.

This is all totally preventable but people have gone full on off the ledge over COVID and it's like they just skipped all of science class or something.