Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

“It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they’d known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family,” she said.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Recent exposures have been linked to large school events in January and February — including state wrestling championships at Utah Valley University, which resulted in multiple people being diagnosed with the illness.

    Three new cases confirmed in eastern Utah were also connected to a high school wrestling tournament last month, the Tri-County Health Department in Vernal announced Thursday.

    What I find baffling is that they aren’t banning wrestling.

    Wrestling is obviously the issue here, not vaccines.

    • Slovene@feddit.nlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Surely it’s god punishing them for all that skin to skin contact and hugging between men? 😔

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I thought the same thing when reading that. The way people like anti-vaxxers connect unrelated dots to the point of absurdity, seeing two wrestling events cause outbreaks is probably raising somebody’s eyebrow.

      • NannerBanner@literature.cafeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Well, we had politicians doing covid parties, dumb christians doing retreats, fucking foolish rejects crying that they were told to stay home for two weeks because it was just so important that they can make the run to their local hardware store to pick up the 5 gallon bucket to fill with their carbonated and sugary beverages…

        When people can override basic logic about avoiding contagion because it ‘owns the libs,’ then it’s definitely going to be overridden when it’s something that ‘means something’ in their life, such as a kid’s competitions.