They almost certainly caught it from someone who was old enough to have been vaccinated but wasn’t. If vaccination rates continue to decline like the current republican administration wants, more and more infants will contract measles even if their parents plan to vaccinate on schedule.

That’s why if you make vaccinations optional they don’t work even for people who do get the vaccine. This is an example of that - although the infant was too young, someone gave them measles because they weren’t vaccinated.

Measles will be more prevalent this year and next year and next and so on because of idiots who hate science, women, and people who look different from them.

Measles is particularly dangerous and much more malignant than other diseases. Those that cannot be vaccinated rely on herd immunity for indirect protection. Measles requires a threshold of about 95% for effective herd immunity, and 90% is the critical threshold for it to be basically totally ineffective.

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases on the planet. It is airborns, lasts for hours on surfaces, has a 90% infection rate among those unvaccinated, and is contagious for 4-5 days both before and after physical symptoms develop.

The US is now down to about a 91% vaccination rate average thanks to anti-vaxxers. Meaning there are many places under that critical threshold where herd immunity effectively no longer exists. With anyone that cannot be vaccinated for whatever reason forced to roll the dice thanks to the idiots in society.

The infant contracted it before they could get vaccinated.

How do you think the infant got it, from the measles fairy?

That virus was a gift from someone they came in contact with, so probably a family member.

And that family member was given it by someone else, who got it from someone else, who got it from someone else, and so on, and so on.

A whole long line of people that each bear responsibility for killing that child by not taking personal responsibility and getting vaccinated. Any one of them could have halted the transmission of the virus on that trajectory that lead to killing that child at that time. It only took one of them, but none of them did the responsible thing.

Most of those people didn’t know that child, never met them, and are still blissfully unaware that their lazy selfishness killed a child. But that doesn’t absolve them of responsibility. They killed a child.

the highly concentrated wealthy areas are ground zero. and the anti-vax movement was born in high end liberal households. this is GOOP central. this is where the problem began. and rich people with just the wrong amount of information are why it’s been happening for so long. rich people don’t learn shit, man. they can’t be taught. if you don’t make them feel like a very special and smart person for knowing the secret that the umbrella is why it rains, they don’t even hear you talk.

And were protected from thalidomide babies.

FDA no longer has expert review and they’re choosing the “scientists” who review anything new. There’s also further decrease in food screening (FDA again) and a loss in tracking and prevention of infectious diseases (CDC). The destruction of American health is going to make us so much weaker as a county long-term in a way that isn’t as easily recovered from like the economic shitshow of Tariffs and incoming stagflation.

As someone with a weakened immune system, I would just like to say that I am so excited.