Antivaxxers try to downplay the role of low vaccine uptake and antivaccine disinformation campaigns for the measles outbreak and high death toll by blaming poverty, but Samoa is not, for example, the Congo. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/12/04/measles-outbreak-samoa/ …
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@RobertKennedyJr used that line, claiming that in the poor and malnourished the measles strain in the virus caused the#SamoaMeasles outbreak. It’s bullshit. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/12/05/samoa-measles-outbreak-malielegaoi/ …Show this thread -
So did
@BusyDrT and her flunky at her antivax blog. Still nonsense. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/12/10/sherri-tenpenny-and-james-grundig-desperately-denying-that-measles-kills/ …Show this thread -
Leave it to the granddaddy of the modern antivax movement, His Fraudulentness himself,
@DrWakefield, to come up with the most ridiculous antivax BS, claiming that MMR is a selective pressure making measles deadlier and could lead to “mass extinction.” 5/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/12/04/measles-outbreak-samoa/ …Show this thread -
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@deerbrian’s reporting: “‘We’re not really seeing evidence of acute malnutrition,’ says the British paediatrician Dr Owens, who arrived from the UK on the same flight as me.” 6/Show this thread -
More: “‘As I understand it, there is very little evidence of clinical vitamin A deficiency. And I’ve not met a patient yet with a defined immune deficiency.’” 7/
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Also Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi is not blameless, with a lackadaisical attitude to vaccination beforehand the outbreak. 8a/8
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I know Samoa is not an undernourished, third world country. I’m trying to understand why the mortality was so high there.
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Late presentation for treatment a big factor in advanced disease by the time parents brought infants to hospital
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