Measles: Parties and Amnesia
Taking a page out of the ‘Chicken pox party’ playbook, apparently ‘measles parties’ are starting in the USA. The principle is of bringing infected children together with their healthy peers to infect them so they develop the ‘natural’ infection and therefore develop immunity without needing vaccination.
It was a bad idea for chicken pox but it is even a worse one for measles. Measles is one of the most contagious childhood infections, each infected person infects an average of about 18 others (remember Covid was about 2 – 3). In fact, if you are unvaccinated, you […]