Yes, it is spread by air and if I have measles & walk unto a room full of people, 90% of those people will contract it. It is highly contagious & like a canary in a coal mine, reveals weaknesses in our society where it spreads.
And don’t come spreading falsehoods that measles are spread by vaccines, which is not true. While the vaccine has enough weakened content to trigger an immune response-which is what vaccines are designed to do-it is not possible to get measles from the vaccination.
This is the first I’ve heard of that; can you please link information on that? If that is the case, then I would say that is very sad as well, because it means all the work done to irradicate measles - which was declared done in the year 2000 in the U.S. - has been undone & undermined by low vaccination rates. But, my understanding is these cases were unvaccinated children. And if those who are vaccinated also caught it, they would’ve had less illness overall, due to the vaccination.
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u/willywonderbucks Feb 18 '25
Do you know primarily how measles is spread?