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by refurb 445 days ago
Having an active measles outbreak is a pretty routine occurrence.

France, Germany and Greece are included not just the Eastern countries.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11588923/

While it’s easy to blame anti-vaxxers, a large contributor are people who saw waning immunity and immigrants from countries with poor immunization rates.

Even with 100% immunization youll still have outbreaks occasionally as people come in and out and the vaccine just doesn’t “take” in some small percentage.

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Vaccination significantly decreases the severity of measles even in most people where the vaccine doesn't "take."

Thus, number of measles cases doesn't tell the full story. One also needs to look at far rates of hospitalizations and complications.

My comment was in response to the complaint about outbreaks at all.