Measles: Understanding the most contagious preventable disease | About That

There are early signals that measles - one of the world's most contagious but preventable diseases - may be spreading in parts of Canada. Andrew Chang breaks down the way the virus attacks the body and what makes it so contagious.
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[@breakingtoys3542]

This reporter have a very special talent in explaining any case. What a beautiful ton.. well done CBC.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

hes OG

[@catonandcoraleelittle1086]

Thankyou for explaining this so well.

[@ohbaby-baby]

He's lying through his teeth... >>> ohbaby's substack

[@Room142]

Andrew Chang is my Canadian, chill John Oliver

[@bernieschau]

I don’t understand why people don’t want to protect their children. Is the science on this one not crystal clear. Have we learned nothing?

[@sandylross8710]

I'm almost 68 years old. If I had it to do over, and knew what I know now, I would not have had my children vaxed, nor would I have sent them to public schools. ❤

[@sandylross8710]

Trust the science!😂😂😂😢😢😢😢

[@vonthrash]

Just out of curiosity@@sandylross8710, what information that you 'know now' are you referring to?

[@sandylross8710]

We've learned a lot

[@CaSPeR_GHoST]

The science on genetics was crystal clear years ago to…. So 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@CrystalAbrahams]

I adore this and every segment. However, today, the background music is so loud, I can't hear what Andrew is saying. Is a producer mad at him? Crystal in Canada 🇨🇦

[@pyRoy6]

Hmm. Seems ok to me. Might just be a bad mix for your device (or speaker setup).

[@debturcott6800]

Not only should all children/people be immunized but every single immigrant. Legal or not.

[@tanyapobuda]

Actually the issue is with people born in Canada. Parents just aren't getting their kids vaccinated. 92% of children aged 2 years had been vaccinated against measles. Similarly, 92% received the recommended number of doses of the polio vaccine. This is way too low.

[@solitairecat1]

@@tanyapobuda Dr Wakefield has a different explanation for why the vaccinated are getting measles.

[@adelevermouille7057]

We have more to lose if we start giving up on established human rights, than in geting measles. Think more.

[@tanyapobuda]

About That is an amazing program. You all do a great job. I'm grateful for this segment #VaccinesSaveLives

[@Etaoinshrdlu69]

Get your vaccines people. The experts are saying the measles vaccine is safe and effective. #trusttheexperts

[@pennypenpay]

The background music is always too loud. Is it possible to turn it down so that the voice can be heard better actually hard for people who have difficulty hearing to or for people who are distracted by such things to focus on what the host is saying.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

Sounds like a personal problem to me

[@Trund27]

The anti-vax movement has done a ton of damage. Get your shots and make sure your kids get their shots too!!

[@sandylross8710]

Are you a eugenics fan?

[@sandylross8710]

😢

[@thedevilsadvocate5210]

That experimental shot is not a vaccine. If they start giving measles vaxxines that make your cells manufacture the measles virus you should not take that either. That mRNA gene delivery system has your cells manufacture trillions is coronavirus. This is what you are trying to prevent by taking a vaccine. It is like burning your arm to prevent it from getting burned.

[@77feyonx]

​@sandylross8710 keep your nonsense to yourself

[@AlbertMark-nb9zo]

@@sandylross8710 - Do you even know what eugenics even means? Where it comes from? Or do you just spout empty words.

[@mlaudisa]

"Let it rip....!" That's the sad state of our public conscience, where scientific progress is rejected in favor of myth and magic.

[@PS-qn4oz]

You genuinely never researched anything. People are completely ignorant and it's horrific.

[@Stellalucas383]

I had it when I was 16 the way I suffered 😩 is so bad

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

Suspend the kids if they cant provide doctors exemption.

[@teresagracias764]

The measles traveled 30 metres up and infected 2 people? How could they know that? Those 2 people could have caught it from anyone around them.

[@janeb3024]

This report needs to go on repeat, every day, until those who oppose vaccination get the message.

[@CraigButler-lk5yn]

They will never get the message until it affects them directly in a tragic way.

[@janeb3024]

@@CraigButler-lk5yn I fear that you are correct but continue to hope for a different path for them.

[@KeyLmach86]

What about the people who have different cultural backgrounds, that don’t get it because of religious reasons? Screw them right!

[@janeb3024]

@@KeyLmach86 Educate not denigrate.

[@KeyLmach86]

@@janeb3024 How about just respect people’s individual choice. If you are vaccinated or immune then you should be fine, and don’t need to worry about it.

[@robertchanrussell2010]

If you want the antivax to listen, you cannot interview infectious disease experts. You'll need to interview a plumber, a pastor, two AV authors, and for legitimacy, someone with a PhD in psychology. Maybe just interview JBP, as he's an expert on everything, including immigration policies.

[@RudolphoAqui]

Haha ain’t that there truth

[@Lucysmom26]

Add Joe Rogan, epidemiologist, to that list.

[@sandylross8710]

There's a KZbin channel, Dr. John Campbell. He got 3 shots. You can learn a lot on his channel, if you dare.❤️

[@sandylross8710]

I'm not sure if I understand what you're saying, but there are plenty on KZbin who give other points of view than the main stream media. People, regular people. Ask The Lord to lead you in the Truth. He will, if you're sincere.

[@serendipity9649]

​​@@sandylross8710ahhh, the great and wonderful nurse Campbell.......a leading "expert" who promotes misinformation. 😮

[@coreysimon8321]

I thought my kids had measles, but it was just strep throat. Thank God. My 5 and 12 year old had bumps all over their bodies. I was so scared, but the doctor did a test on the 2 with bumps. 😊

[@sandylross8710]

We all had measles when I was a child. We missed a few days of school. That's all.

[@Alex_Plante]

It should be possible for people to have the mumps, measles and rubella vaccines as separate vaccines, instead of having all 3 at the same time. Uptake would probably go up, for those who are worried about getting all three at the same time. Also it would be useful to have a graph of effectiveness of vaccine versus dangerousness of infection, so that people can prioritize the most effective vaccinations for the most dangerous infections.

[@CraigButler-lk5yn]

It's too late for that. Nothing will change the minds of the anti-vaxxers at this point.

[@d614gakadoug9]

The MMR vaccine has been in use for decades and has an excellent safety record. The ides that there is some increased risk form the trivalent vaccine is simply nonsense.

[@PS-qn4oz]

@@d614gakadoug9 It has a record for ignoring all claims of injury because of the twisted laws that are withholding justice and compensation for those injured by it. RESEARCH the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act PLEASE! See how many people have been abused by the liability-free system!

[@soulsquest]

In before Del Bigtree and other loons.

[@shannonnagaj2413]

Measles was supposed to be extinct. Where did this person come from??.

[@joeisawesome540]

tourist or immigrant.

[@erich214]

Measles has not been eradicated. You're thinking of smallpox. We're nearly there with polio.

[@CraigButler-lk5yn]

@@erich214 We were nearly there with polio until the anti-vax movement started sabotaging vaccination efforts. Polio has started to make a comeback in some areas as a result.

[@AlbertMark-nb9zo]

@@CraigButler-lk5yn - The issue with polio is that in poorer countries, people use the oral polio vaccine. This is a live, attenuated vaccine, which reverts to a dangerous virus within a week or two of taking it. It then gets excreted into the water. So this version is circulating in these countries. The vaccine does prevent most cases. There is a chance with OPV or getting paralysis. One in a million, which is why it isn't used in developed countries, and IPV is. So at present, there's still circulating virus around, and if it gets into a unvaccinated population, bad things WILL happen.

[@d614gakadoug9]

No, measles has never been eradicated. Only two viral diseases have ever been eradicated - smallpox and rinderpest. Rinderpest was a disease of ungulates, mostly domestic cattle, and is in fact fairly closely related to measles.

[@solitairecat1]

There's a reason the Salk's Institute is a temple for sun worship.

[@ghostrider369]

😂😅🤣😆😁 right.

[@rayvac7743]

Illegals did it😅

[@luannecorlett4683]

the heck they did, when things go wrong, let's blame immigrants

[@KeyLmach86]

@@luannecorlett4683 first case in BC was a child new to Canada……..

[@joeisawesome540]

@@KeyLmach86 but thats not an illegal.

[@KeyLmach86]

@@joeisawesome540 legal or not, the kid is an immigrant.

[@joeisawesome540]

@@KeyLmach86 where did you get this information? they just said it was an unvaccinated kid who got it from travelling. Nothing about the kid being a recent immigrant.

[@ohbaby-baby]

They are flooding KZbin with these scare tactic clips to promote their shots.... This guy in particular is lying through his teeth on a number of points. >>> ohbaby's substack

[@sandylross8710]

When I was around 7or 8 years old, best I recall, everyone in school got Measles. We missed a few days of school. Nobody died.

[@Dupont550]

When I was 7 or 8, none of us got measles, and no one died or missed school. 🤷‍♂️

[@Dupont550]

We were all vaccinated.

[@KeyLmach86]

@@Dupont550 then why are you so worried?

[@sandylross8710]

@@Dupont550 I've known a few people who got shingles years later.

[@Dupont550]

@@KeyLmach86 I thank my parents every day I wake up without polio, measles, Mumps or rubella.

[@emmyo6678]

I am almost 74 yrs or age. When I was a kid we all got measles, chicken pox, mumps. I don't recall people dying. We developed immunity and went on with life never to have these diseases again.

[@CraigButler-lk5yn]

So because you didn't know anyone or hear about anyone dying it never happened right?

[@sandylross8710]

Amen! That's what I'm talking about!

[@sandylross8710]

​@@CraigButler-lk5ynWe All had those, 'childhood' diseases!! No one was hospitalized or died! You can trust the 'science' and worry about the folks who don't, or you can search out the truth. Your choice ❤

[@TheBrad574]

That might be because the people you know weren't under 5 years old or infants, or you don't consider infants under a year of age to be people. Under 9 months, measles claims a high infant mortality rate.

[@xynged]

survivorship bias

[@crewyyz]

Bs

[@Etaoinshrdlu69]

Yeah especially that Olympics study

[@Royan1900]

What's BS? Your ability to understand facts? Your expertise in immunology and virology?

[@thedevilsadvocate5210]

​@@Royan1900 How do you make any decisions in life without your experts. How do you know to go left out right without an expert telling you You keep taking medications that have no liability. If an expert tells you to do something with no liability you don't listen to that expert.

[@CraigButler-lk5yn]

@@thedevilsadvocate5210 So what your comment implies is that you're scared of a vaccine that has been in use for over 50yrs. Is that about right?

[@Royan1900]

@@thedevilsadvocate5210 What? No liability? That's not the term you're looking for, genius. Yes, let's listen to the person who can't even write coherently. Also, in case you meant to say "take medications without someone being *responsible*", incorrect: the prescriber and the pharmacist are *responsible* for that.

[@KeyLmach86]

Lmao! Be afraid everybody!

[@momtur4875]

don't have to be afraid be smart

[@KeyLmach86]

@@momtur4875and how would you suggest us be smart? Stay home? Wear a mask and nitrile gloves? Most of us have been vaccinated as children so we have sterilized immunity to this big scary illness. Unlike covid we are protected against measles. I bet you want us to lockdown society because of this lol. How about just live your life, without the media telling you what to be afraid of constantly.

[@CraigButler-lk5yn]

@@KeyLmach86 That protection you refer to is dependent on herd immunity (ie a vast majority being immunized). The reason measles is becoming a problem again is due to the anti-vaxx movement. So there is a growing segment of the population that are not vaccinated which endangers the rest of us who are because there will always be breakthrough infections.

[@KeyLmach86]

@@CraigButler-lk5yn nope wrong. The so called “anti vax” movement you’re referring to is not right winged “ freedom convoy” extremists. It’s people with cultural differences that don’t get the vaccine due to religious reasons. Stop projecting this left winged nonsense.

[@CraigButler-lk5yn]

@@KeyLmach86 LOL. You might want to check a news report about the convoy. It was made up of RWNJs shouting antivax nonsense non-stop. Or if you don't trust the news, just take a look at the convoy's participant's live streams, they showed the same. And my above comment made no mention of the convoy or RWNJs, only that the anti-vax movement (which started before the convoy) is endangering all of us by causing these easily preventable diseases to regain a foothold.

[@OneTrueKing23]

Why are you loosing time with Trudeau propaganda machine when you are such good explainer?

[@spidalack]

Why are you calling this propaganda? Politics as nothing to do with this.

[@Royan1900]

Hey Russian bot! Welcome to the conversation 🙂 P.s. the term your masters were looking for is "wasting time on Trudeau" not "loosing" time. Translation fail!😂

[@OneTrueKing23]

@@spidalack I am calling it propaganda machine because CBC literally get majority of their funding from the government.

[@momtur4875]

@@spidalack Sorry to say this but the conservative would ratter listen to what PP have to say then the doctors sad but true

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

you not the king bow down to the real king!