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Very interesting. I had a look at Ireland. Here's the historical graph
Our lowest was 2015 where it was 0.4 cases per million or just two cases for the whole year. Generally it's hovering around 10x to 15x that with most of the cases among adult men.
I've never actually heard of anyone with measles here. The health agency does follow up rigourously if your kid misses the vaccine in school because they were out that day or whatever.
Ireland had 49 cases over Jan-Jul of '25, for a rate of 9.6 per million, 50% higher than the US
Yeah that's my point. I was agreeing with your premise. :)
Yeah sorry, was just stating the rate. I've also never known anyone who's gotten measles. While there may be hundreds to thousands of cases each year in a given country, it's still only a few out of every million people
Wonder why it dropped so low before the 1980s, then spiked again.
Y’all do your vaccines at school? I’m so jealous.
Doctor or health centre for the early ones but the later ones (boosters and HPV vaccines for girls) are all done in school yeah.
They did flu vaccines this year in the school which I think is the first time.
I'm in the states and my kids had the option to get their flu shots at the school this year. Somehow one of my kids was skipped despite us immediately signing and returning the consent forms.
It does feel like it's very hit or miss whether or not flu shots are offered at the schools though. I remember getting the flu vaccine at the school just once and I never remember seeing lines or anything at any of my schools for flu vaccines the years I didn't get it at the school. I imagine they only do it when either there's special funding for it or the data says they especially need a lot more vaccination this year
Wouldn't want for profit healthcare to lose out on middlemanning childhood vaccines. America Freedumb.
Narrowly missed that.
Old enough to have gotten immunised to it from the old fashioned way. In that spike in the middle of the graph. And glad for it.