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Alberta in the midst of worst measles outbreak since 1997 as doctors call for action (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I hope vaccination rates are high! "Measles is back" kind of sums up where we are as a species right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Got bad news for you. A recent article says rates are 70% in most areas and 50% in rural areas. Far below the 95% needed for herd immunity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know about "most areas" but, yeah, I think you're referencing the numbers provided by Alberta Medical Association's president to the Canadian Press yesterday. Vaccination rates are why some are predicting measles will become endemic [in North America, I think] again - maybe 40 years after Canada had declared it beaten.

https://lemmy.ca/post/42929323
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/alberta-doctors-association-warns-measles-will-rise-ramped-up-health-campaign-needed/article_3c997808-f122-5d9f-9337-9cf5f6e0a5e6.html

Duggan said the province doesn’t have a high enough vaccination rate to prevent measles from circulating - a rate that is ideally above 95 per cent. She said even in urban centres like Edmonton and Calgary the rate is only at around 70 per cent, and there are pockets of the province that are at 50 per cent or lower.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Thanks for finding the source.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yikes.. I remember that year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You too? Bummer!

Sorry to hear that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

28 years ago.. Goddamn time flies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Sounds like something Goodkind/Pratchett would have wrote, hah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

I've heard it attributed to Groucho Marx, but Wikipedia says no. It's a great phrase and the article about it is interesting.