Measles outbreak in B.C. reaches 300-plus, tied to 4 U.S. cases

[luminescnece]

Measles outbreak in B.C. reaches 300-plus, tied to 4 U.S. cases

More than 300 people in B.C. are now estimated to have contracted measles in the current outbreak, and officials south of the border in Washington state say the number of B.C.-linked measles cases has also grown.

Dr. Greg Stern, a health officer with Whatcom County, says four members

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[chaya]

You need tags.

[luminescnece]

I can't figure out how to add anything but my own.

[moonshaz]

Click on "edit tags." On the next screen, scroll all the way to the bottom. There should br a drop-down menu you can select tags from.

I just tried this on one of my own posts and it worked.

[luminescnece]

Thank you, I did try that but somehow your directions work better than whatever my brain told me to do.

[_myaugust]

JUST VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN. Urgh!

[shadwrayvn]

seriously!

[luminescnece]

I feel like reducing their stupidity to mockery doesn't work to change them. We know they're stupid and insane. But they don't.

My plot is that if I get measles I go find some anti vaxers and ask if I can read their kids a story before bed. You know. To make sure their kids get the immunity to measles.

[cindyanne1]

Omg, and there's a mumps outbreak in Central Ohio too. People just need to vaccinate for the love of God. We almost had it all eradicated... :(

[magedragonfire]

Yeeep. Yep. :| And of course it's the Fraser Valley.

[svtstarlight]

They REALLY need to start enforcing the rules that say your children can't attend school without vaccinations. This is ridiculous.

Just out of curiosity, if someone dies because of this, would it theoretically be possible to trace the source and sue that person for (at the very least) manslaughter, if not outright murder? IMHO that is what it is, and if my baby or anyone in my family died because of this, you can be damned sure I would try.

[magedragonfire]

Canada's laws don't really work like that. Possibly in the States, I guess...? Manslaughter's a criminal charge, not civil, here.

I guess you could possibly file a wrongful death lawsuit, though, which implies negligence on the behalf of another party. That'd still be a hell of a thing to prove, though, and I don't think provincial courts typically put a price on grief and loss. The family would be likely to get compensation only in cases where the deceased was a wage-earner or caregiver of some kind. You wouldn't get much, if anything, if a child died.

[maladaptive]

If you could actually trace the actual person who gave you the disease, it's theoretically possible to sue them. I am not sure whether you'd win. But you can't sue for manslaughter--the suit would probably be for negligence resulting in wrongful death.

Proving that you got sick from that person, though, is really hard. You'd have to rule out that you didn't get measles from some other vector.

If someone has more specific info on this I'd like to know, though!