It's not just the U.S. that's gone anti-vax bonkers. Measles cases across Europe increased 10x in 2024 compared to 2023. In the Americas they are already up 11-fold since last year.
The U.S. outbreak is now approaching 900, with 3 deaths, and dozens hospitalized.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/measles-cases-europe-americas-skyrocket
Measles by itself is not highly lethal, but the danger it poses is serious for three reasons.
First, it is the most contagious disease known to humankind. The Spanish Flu had an infection rate of 1.5-2. Measles has an infection rate of 12-18.
Second, Measles can hide in the body for years, cross the blood-brain barrier, and cause death long after you forgot about it.
Third, the extreme danger of measles is what it does to your immune system. Throughout your life, as your body contracts and fights off diseases, it keeps a record of how to fight those diseases. Measles comes in and burns 20-70% of those records, so that the next time you catch a sniffle it might turn into a life-threatening lung infection. —summation of the linked podcast by u/animorphsgeek #Measles #MeaslesOutbreak #Epidemiology #PublicHealth #HHS #RFKjr #epidemic #Childhood
#politics #measles #vaccines #RFK #epidemic #stupidity
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As Trump tries to destroy universities
“US faces millions of #measles cases over next 25 yrs if vax rates drop 10%
No change in current vax rate would result in 100s of 1000s of measles cases over same per, per math model by team of Stanford U
researchers”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
#Congress created the #Vaccines for #Children program in 1993 after a US #measles #epidemic had killed dozens of children a few years earlier. The #CDC found
that >50% of the children who got measles then were unvaccinated. The #cost of the #immunization was a primary reason families had skipped the shot even though they were seeing doctors regularly….
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#PublicHealth #Disease #Epidemic #BirdFlu #USPol
"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has proposed addressing the H5N1 bird flu that is decimating U.S. poultry and cattle farms by simply letting the disease run rampant. He suggests such a course would permit scientists to discover birds that are immune to the disease."
Caption: "Bob, it worked!!"
https://www.europesays.com/1920581/ Network Scientists Are Using AI to Predict the Next Epidemic #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BirdFlu #covid #epidemic #EpidemicModeling #H5N1 #NetworkScience
#Brazil, #FIOCRUZ: Margareth Dalcolmo warns: "The #risk today is that an #H5N1 #epidemic could occur", https://portal.fiocruz.br/noticia/2025/03/margareth-dalcolmo-alerta-o-risco-hoje-e-que-uma-epidemia-de-h5n1-possa-ocorrer
Margareth also lamented that access to #monitoring of the circulation of new viruses, offered by the US agency #CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), was interrupted due to the new measures adopted by the US government.
"*On March 9, a case was confirmed in the Maryland/metro D.C. area.
Measles is more contagious than many of the diseases we take far more seriously in the media and halls of Congress.
Measles infection can result in severe and sometimes permanent complications including pneumonia, lung damage, brain damage, and death."
#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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"According to the Centers for Disease Control, as of March 6, 2025, a total of 222 measles cases have been reported by twelve U.S. jurisdictions in just the first 65 days of 2025.
The current outbreaks are in:
Alaska
California
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York City
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Texas
Washington state"
~ Amelia Mavis Christnot
#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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https://auntiemavis.substack.com/p/measles-dangers-immunity-vaccination-testing
"He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved 'almost miraculous and instantaneous' recoveries with steroids or antibiotics."
Note that shifting blame for contracting measles to lack of good diet and exercise blames victims in a particularly nasty way that makes invidious insinuations about social class and income. RFKJr. and his kind are models of good health?
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"[RFKJr] issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research. He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research."
~ Teddy Rosenbluth
#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html
Evidence suggests that measles immunity fades about 10-15 years after vaccination. If it's been more than 10 years since your MMR, or you can't find the latest record of vaccination, update your shot.
And WEAR A MASK. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases of all time. There is NO reason to expose yourself when a KN95/N95 mask offers so much protection.
An epidemiologist has a lot of really good info on the current measles outbreak in Texas.
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-child-is-dead-from-measles
NY TIMES - Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say
It is the first known death from an outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico. At least 124 cases have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown, officials said… #News #BreakingNews #Measles #epidemic #PublicHealth #epidemiology #virus
The number of ongoing and potential epidemics and pandemics we are facing all at once is deeply alarming.
The ruthlessness of capitalism, the impotence of governing institutions, the erosion of public and/or affordable and/or accessible healthcare, the changing climate and weather, the massive concentration of exploited animals, the devastation of some countries economy...
It's a death by a thousand, systemic, malicious and self-destructive cuts...
