The anti-vaccination fruitcakes are having themselves an - TopicsExpress



          

The anti-vaccination fruitcakes are having themselves an effect. School immunization data for the 2012-13 school year obtained by Daily Intelligencer from the New York State Department of Health shows that some 245 New York City private schools fell short of the 95 percent vaccination rate which experts say prevents measles from spreading - an effect known as herd immunity. Of those schools, 125 had rates below 90 percent, and 37 fell below 70 percent. The nine private schools with the lowest rates - between 41.5 percent and 18.4 percent - were so underimmunized that if any one of them somehow seceded and became a Sealand-style micro-nation, it would literally have had the worst measles vaccination rate in the world, according to WHO numbers.-Esquire Charlier Pierce Piece
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:21:50 +0000

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