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Nobody wants to face the public wrath of the internet but anti-vaxxers experience this daily as people continue to troll them, however, you know what's even worse than getting challenged by someone you don't know online - someone online with a medical degree. That's right according to data analysis from CNN measles cases in the United States have surpassed the highest number on record since the disease was declared eliminated nationwide in 2000.

Doctors are employing all strategies to fight the disease from using electronic medical records to identify unvaccinated patients living in outbreak zones to refusing to accept patients who haven't been vaccinated - and now they have taken the fight to Twitter. Sure some of these savage tweets are funny, but believe it or not, fighting misinformation on the internet is vitally important, even when it's done in a simple tweet. Scroll down below to read some anti-vaxxers get destroyed by doctors and don't forget to upvote your favs!

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Wil Vanderheijden
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the kind of language that everyone should use to these incredible blockheads that refuse to have their offspring vaccinated.

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Measles became a nationally notifiable disease in the United States in 1912, meaning that health care providers and laboratories were required to report diagnosed cases. During the first decade of reporting, an average of about 6,000 measles-related deaths were reported annually.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great one! Telling idiots off won't help. Making fun of them will!

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In the 1950s, researchers found a way to isolate the measles virus in a patient's blood, and in the 1960s, they were successful in transforming the isolated virus into a vaccine. The vaccine was licensed and became part of the measles vaccination program, introduced in 1963.

Before the introduction of the measles vaccination program, according to the CDC, there was an estimated 3 to 4 million people getting infected with the disease yearly nationwide. Following this program the numbers of cases and deals from measles substantially dropped. In 1994 there were 963 reported cases, which fell to 508 cases in 1996.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is actually a very good strategy. Just make sure that anti rub-patients also get a treatment with rotting swedish fish, also internally.

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Jump forward to 2000, when the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S and there were only 86 reported cases. This meant there had been no continuous transmission of the disease for over 12 months. These numbers only continued to plummet until a resurgence in 2014 where the country experienced 23 separate outbreaks, which occurred primarily among the unvaccinated Amish community.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh! Saving this whole thing! Thank you for saving me the explaining :-)

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In 2018 the U.S saw 17 separate outbreaks and the numbers continue to climb. According to the CDC, the disease was largely imported and spread among unvaccinated pockets: "Eighty-two people brought measles to the U.S. from other countries in 2018. This is the greatest number of imported cases since measles was eliminated from the U.S. in 2000."

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Kaisu
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Their "evidence" is: I saw someone called Karen, who is definitely not a doctor or a medical researcher, write a Facebook post about it, so that's my evidence

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My ex-husband believes that vaccines are bad for vegetarians and vegans. So, after our twins had all their vaccines, I put our younger children's vaccines on halt til they were a bit older. He was determined for them to not be vaxx'd, especially because of the "autism" connection. Laughs on him - I'm ASD, and three out of our four girls are also. Nothing to do with vaccines, as #3 kid was dx'd before she had any immunizations. And they're amazeballs kids.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, so he thinks that vaccines are OK for people on a standard human omnivore diet? Vaccines only cause problems for vegans and vegetarians? That's... an interesting theory!

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Carol Emory
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the one guy that said he had a doctor that said vaccines are unsafe and you shouldn't vaccinate your kids for fear of autism. He posted the link to the Doctor. Turns out she had a doctorate in a non-medical field. That's like saying someone is a military expert, but then finding out the closest they're gotten to anything military is playing Call of Duty online....

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You mean gamers aren't military experts?!?! Lol. I love the "I was going to, so I'm an expert" arguement. "I was going to be become a doctor, so I know what I'm talking about." "I thought about joining the military, so I know all about it."

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw on r/askreddit recently for "People who were blocked by famous people on twitter, what got you blocked?" One person wrote that they were following Jenny McCarthy, and she asked everyone what they look for in romantic partners. The OP wrote "Someone who believes in vaccines." Aaand blocked.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jenny McCarthy... her credentials include: being a one-time playboy model, getting booted off snl, being a host on The View, and fooling legions of idiots who can somehow understand the sodium is dangerous and chloride is dangerous, yet don't understand that sodium chloride is salt.

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Christina Sersif
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they read a blog by some spiritually woke mom who swears that her shiny rocks cure anything.

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Sarah Grape
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i like this because of how true it is (in some cases, people have sent me cites that seemed pretty legit, but it was for the covid vaccine; its pretty well known that it had a rough start)

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OMEGA
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i love that. they just yell, and then hide when logic approaches

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Michèle Gyselinck
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People replace knowledge with hearsay got on the internet. Well, you can learn a lot of good info on the internet, but you can also get a lot of nonsense.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, if it's in black & white (print), it's true. . . We should have had "internet rules" right from the beginning. . . #1: if statement is false = font shows in red, if true = font is black. There would be an awful lot of "red font" stuff posted. However, those same self-proclaimed anti-vaxxers wouldn't believe the "red font" designation anymore than they believe the "black facts" for vaccines.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why Are American Children Sicker Than Ever Before? We want government officials to explain to us why our country — which spends the most on health care and has one of the highest child vaccination rates in the world — is crippled by a chronic disease and disability epidemic that costs more than $2 trillion a year and has created the sickest child and young adult population in America's history: 1 child in 6 learning disabled 1 in 9 with asthma 1 in 10 diagnosed with a mental disorder 1 in 13 severely allergic to food 1 in 20 epileptic 1 in 50 developing autism 1 in 400 with diabetes The people do not understand why government refuses to fund or conduct methodologically sound scientific studies to find out why the bodies of so many highly-vaccinated children and adults are on fire, riddled with chronic inflammation that is common to most brain and immune system dysfunction.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because of the anti-vax movement. We are not extremely sick. The anti-vax movement has made children sicker than they have been in the last 70 years. That has nothing to do with actual numbers. It's just sicker than in our country's history These people are anti-vaxxers!!! When anti-vaxxers didn't exist, the number of sick children was quite low. Now, because of some Facebook idiot, more people say no to vaccines, and therefore get sick, and sometimes die. Not only that, but these un-vaccinated children are the real ones riddled with disease. Now, some moronic parents are forcing all the vaccinated children around them to get sick,by having their child infect your child. Don't be one of these parents, who let some stupid hippies hurt their children. It's just quite sad that some people support this. Some famous supporters who are/were pro-vaccination: Benjamin Franklin - he delivered a speech about how he wish he could've vaccinated his child, after his four year old boy died.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mother in 2019 in a developing country: Thank god I have to walk only thirty kilometers to get my child this vaccine that will keep them healthy

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will never get over the fact that some parents would rather have a dead child than an autistic child.... (not that vaccines cause autism)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Could they really sue for this? If not, I really think they should be able to!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately, you see to this day parents with a cigarette on their hand pusing strollere, the smoke sinking to where the baby is lying. Thus, the unfortunate answer is that enough parents simply do not care.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anti-vaxxer has such a negative ring to it. I suggest to change it to pro-diseaser.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandmother is completely deaf because she contracted measles as a young kid and started slowly losing her hearing ever since

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It takes some real balls to say "NO" to the mumps vaccine. Big, inflamed, painful orchitis riddled balls.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Above explanation by Eve Switzer pretty much describes what anti-vaxxers do on the internet and in real life, and it also describes why they are sometimes succesful. "Health freedom" sounds so much better than being "pro desease" and "quackery".

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We... almost did eradicate measles... with our current vaccine... what the absolute f**k.

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Kaisu
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is absolutely despicable, do not compare you being a terrible parent to the f*****g holocaust??? This makes me so angry

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