Fourteen years ago, measles had been stamped out in the United Kingdom through comprehensive vaccination. But anti-vaccination hysteria has dropped immunization rates to the point where local outbreaks are increasing in scope and severity, and the disease will soon become epidemic, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA), the public health body of England and Wales.
The total number of confirmed measles cases in England and Wales so far this year is 461, with another 68 cases reported in Scotland, the report said. All of the Scottish victims were either unvaccinated or of unknown status -
The sat thing is it would probably take an epidemic to stop this anti-vaccination crap.
