To the editor: Huge shock. Measles is spreading in Mexico subsequent to an unvaccinated particular person visiting Texas (“Measles outbreak in Mexico prompts well being alert in World Cup host Jalisco,” Feb. 5). Tuberculosis is spreading at a non-public college in San Francisco (“Tuberculosis outbreak reported at Catholic highschool in Bay Space. Circumstances statewide are climbing,” Feb. 3).
To all these vaccine skeptics on the market, and people who didn’t care in regards to the hundreds of thousands who’ve misplaced medical care resulting from cuts to ACA subsidies, I’ve a message for you: Public well being issues. Regardless of how wealthy and privileged you might be, communicable ailments don’t discriminate. In case your neighbor can’t get preventive care or early detection of ailments, beware. You possibly can be the following sufferer.
We now have created a poisonous brew between low vaccine charges and lack of ability to entry care. I’m sufficiently old to recollect the times earlier than measles and polio vaccines and a whole constructing at Metropolis of Hope labeled “consumption.” I pray that authorities officers and cussed residents will get up and return to prioritizing public well being earlier than it’s too late and polio turns into our subsequent outbreak.
Barbara Rosen, Fullerton
