I’m fully vaccinated against measles, but I still became Ottawa’s fifth confirmed case this year - eviltoast
  • IndridCold@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    1 day ago

    Nearly 5,000 measles cases have been reported in Canada so far in 2025; in 2023, only 11 were recorded.

    This is insane. We’ll have to have an entire generation start getting sick and dying off from preventable diseases before the general public realizes the good vaccines do.

  • uhmbah@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    23 hours ago

    Vaccinated and caught measles?

    What I didn’t know then was that a prescription medication I was taking for eczema had possibly caused my immune system to become vulnerable to measles

    Okay, so maybe not so worrying to the vaccinated.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      23 hours ago

      Being vaccinated doesn’t mean that you 100% sure won’t get infected

      It means that the chance you do get infected is extremely much smaller and if you do, typically your body can.fight better and you get less sick.

      Combined with a coverage of 98% of the population it typically causes that that viral infection disappears completely

      • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        21 hours ago

        All vaccines do is expose your immune system to something to be on the look out for. Thus vaccines are only good as your immune response is. Thats why its so important to have herd immunity, so people with weak immune systems will be less likely to be exposed to diseases.

  • Cassanderer@thelemmy.club
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    23 hours ago

    Just more and more people opting out as exemptions to school vaxxing or what?

    Idk in the us or by state, but most all northern states have near 0 measles. Washington had some in the islands in the sound not long back, vax skeptical.

    That is the only measles I have heard of up north I think.