Measles outbreak: Gaines County, Texas

[Winehole23]

Disinfo hurts people


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Gaines_County.svg/300px-Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Gaines_County.svg.png (http://ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaines_County,_Texas#Geography)



As of Feb. 7, there were nine confirmed and three probable cases, said Zach Holbrooks, executive director of the South Plains Public Health District, which includes Gaines. The department is investigating many other potential cases among close contacts, he said, in hopes of treating people quickly and curbing the spread of the virus.


Gaines County has one of the lowest rates of childhood vaccination in Texas. At a local public school district in the community of Loop, only 46% of kindergarten students have gotten vaccines against measles, mumps, and rubella. Vaccination rates may be even lower at private schools and within homeschool groups, which don’t always report the information.


Most people who aren’t protected by vaccination will get measles if exposed. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/texas-measles-outbreak-gaines-county-public-health-measles-vaccine/

[SnakeBoy]

Disinfo hurts people



Yeah Fauci & Co did a lot of harm

[ChumpDumper]

Howso, snacks?

In your opinion, of course.

[SnakeBoy]

Howso, snacks?

In your opinion, of course.

They should have told the truth during covid

[baseline bum]

They should have told the truth during covid

Injecting disinfectant and shining UV light through the skin obviously

[ChumpDumper]

They should have told the truth during covid

About what?

Measles?

Use your words

[Winehole23]

Yeah Fauci & Co did a lot of harmdeflection

[Winehole23]

Texas public health officials recommend the MMR vaccine to fight the measles outbreak in Gaines and surrounding counties


The number of measles cases in an outbreak in the South Plains region of northern Texas has grown from 24 illnesses to 48 in just the past 3 days, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reported today (https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/measles-outbreak-feb-14-2025).

Thirteen patients (27%) have required hospital care. All patients are unvaccinated, or their measles vaccine status remains unknown. The first cases in the region were confirmed (https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/state-health-officials-urge-vigilance-additional-measles-cases-are-identified) on January 23. Since then (https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/measles-outbreak-texas-rises-24-cases-new-mexico-reports-illness), the DSHS reported 6 cases on February 5 and 24 cases on February 11.

Gaines County is the hardest hit, with 42 of the 48 cases. Other affected counties are Terry (3 cases), Yoakum (2), and Lynn (1).

More cases likely

"Due to the highly contagious nature of this disease, additional cases are likely to occur in Gaines County and the surrounding communities," the agency said today. "DSHS is working with South Plains Public Health District and Lubbock Public Health to investigate the outbreak."
"The best way to prevent getting sick is to be immunized with two doses of a vaccine against measles, which is primarily administered as the combination measles-mumps-rubella [MMR] vaccine," the agency added. "Two doses of the MMR vaccine are highly effective at preventing measles."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/texas-measles-outbreak-doubles-48-cases

[Thread]

You ain't turnin' Texas!!!

[Winehole23]

Officials told NBC News (https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-outbreak-west-texas-grows-unvaccinated-rcna192163) that it's likely that 200-300 residents of West Texas are infected and untested.ttps://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/measles-vaccine-vaccinations-outbreak-texas-20169162.php

[Spurs Homer]

Not to worry...rfk JR - is in charge! nothing to worry about!

(its NOT like Putin would order trump to install the person that would do the most damage to the usa as health czar!!!!- amirite?- and absolutely- zero trump decisions would be in the best interests of russia would they?)

:cheer:cheer:cheer:cheer

[Thread]

Not to worry...rfk JR - is in charge! nothing to worry about!

(its NOT like Putin would order trump to install the person that would do the most damage to the usa as health czar!!!!- amirite?- and absolutely- zero trump decisions would be in the best interests of russia would they?)

:cheer:cheer:cheer:cheer

Solly Cholly, you lost, Homer.

[SnakeBoy]

So much for the herd immunity theory

[ChumpDumper]

So much for the herd immunity theoryHow have you not committed suicide?

[SnakeBoy]

I want to live to see the glorious network state monarchy

[ChumpDumper]

I want to live to see the glorious network state monarchy

Which one?

[Winehole23]

I want to live to see the glorious network state monarchyfunny, before the election you pretended not to know what that is

[Winehole23]

btw, watch out for the ding-dang flu, it's pretty bad this year

https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2025-week-06.html

[Winehole23]

Outpatient respiratory illness is stable compared to last week but is higher than it has been all season and is above the baseline nationally for the eleventh consecutive week. All 10 HHS regions are above their region-specific baselines.
The week ending January 25, 2024, was the first time that the percent of deaths for influenza (1.7%) was higher than the percent of deaths for COVID-19. The percent of deaths for influenza has continued to increase and is 2.6% for the week ending February 8, 2025.
Eleven pediatric deaths associated with seasonal influenza virus infection were reported this week, bringing the 2024-2025 season total to 68 pediatric deaths.
CDC estimates that there have been at least 29 million illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations, and 16,000 deaths from flu so far this season.

[Thread]

^^^You just want the old man to have to be driven into the shitter again like with the COVID.

Damn you, Winester!!!

[koriwhat]

Injecting disinfectant and shining UV light through the skin obviously

More disinfo... You bum!

[koriwhat]

Not to worry...rfk JR - is in charge! nothing to worry about!

(its NOT like Putin would order trump to install the person that would do the most damage to the usa as health czar!!!!- amirite?- and absolutely- zero trump decisions would be in the best interests of russia would they?)

:cheer:cheer:cheer:cheer

Does anyone take this mentally ill retard seriously? Spurs Homer is working with an IQ of 20 similar to his counterpart Richard Madcow.

[koriwhat]

This shit is more than likely due to importing 3rd world trash illegals tbh. Same has been going on in CA and other parts of the country being brought in by illegals and "asylum seekers".

[ChumpDumper]

This shit is more than likely due to importing 3rd world trash illegals tbh. Same has been going on in CA and other parts of the country being brought in by illegals and "asylum seekers".

But you're anti vaccine.

[Thread]

This shit is more than likely due to importing 3rd world trash illegals tbh. Same has been going on in CA and other parts of the country being brought in by illegals and "asylum seekers".

Yep.

[velik_m]

Bill to ban mRNA vaccines passes out of House committee

...

“[mRNA vaccines are] the most destructive and lethal medical products that have ever been used in medical history,” Dr. Christine Drivdahl-Smith, a family physician in Miles City, told the committee earlier this month.

Opponents, though, said mRNA vaccines safely help the body build antibodies against diseases. They also argued that removing vaccines limits individual choice and involved the government in health care decisions.

“This bill interferes with the health care provider, patient relationships, it interferes with the practice of medicine,” said Dr. Douglas Harrington, a preventative medicine physician and the state medical officer for the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, during testimony earlier this month.



https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2025/feb/14/bill-to-ban-mrna-vaccines-passes-out-of-house-committee/

[SnakeBoy]

Good news whinehole, Trump is working on it

1892685884517912622

[ChumpDumper]

Good news whinehole, Trump is working on it

1892685884517912622
:lmao "border related"

Half a school district had kids whose parents applied for vaccine exemptions.

But you won't talk about it.

You never talk about it.

[Thread]

Good news whinehole, Trump is working on it

1892685884517912622

Trump don't miss a trick!

[velik_m]

RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign

Just days after anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the country's top health official, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already pulled back some of its efforts to protect Americans with safe, lifesaving vaccines. The agency has indefinitely postponed a public meeting of its vaccine advisory committee and killed a campaign promoting seasonal flu shots.

Last weekend, a Washington Post columnist noted on Bluesky that the CDC's effective "Wild to Mild" seasonal flu shot campaign had vanished. The campaign highlighted how the seasonal vaccines can prevent influenza infections from becoming severe or life-threatening. It used animals as an analogy for the diminished threat of the flu virus after vaccination, juxtaposing a lion and a domestic kitten in one ad while showing an elephant and a mouse in another. The CDC page no longer leads to a "not found" landing page, but it wasn't restored either. It now redirects to a 2023 article announcing the campaign, which does not contain the shareable resources found on the original page. The removal is startling given that the US is currently battling one of the worst flu seasons in 15 years.
...


https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/rfk-jr-promptly-cancels-vaccine-advisory-meeting-pulls-flu-shot-campaign/

[ChumpDumper]

Whoopsie!

1893999637956079780

https://x.com/KUT/status/1893999637956079780

The individual from Gaines County also traveled to multiple areas in San Antonio on Saturday, Feb. 15. They include the University of Texas at San Antonio main campus between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m, the River Walk attractions — Wax Museum, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and Ripley’s Illusion Lab — between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., and Mr. Crabby's Seafood and Bar in Live Oak between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

The person also visited a New Braunfels Buc-ees on Feb. 16 between 9 a.m. and noon.

[Blake]

That crazy busy Bucees would be the one I'd be most concerned with.

[Winehole23]

That crazy busy Bucees would be the one I'd be most concerned with.


Measles is one of the most contagious of all infectious diseases. Up to 9 out of 10 susceptible people with close contact to a measles patient will develop measles.

The virus is transmitted by:



Direct contact with infectious droplets.
Airborne spread when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes.



Measles virus can remain infectious in the air for up to 2 hours after an infected person leaves an area.
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html

[Winehole23]

one of the deadliest

one of the most preventable


The initial symptoms (https://www.cdc.gov/measles/symptoms/signs-symptoms.html) of measles are similar to those of many other common viral illnesses in the U.S.: fever, cough, runny nose and red eyes. Several days after symptoms begin, characteristic tiny white spots develop inside the mouth, and a facial rash spreads to the rest of the body.

While most people’s symptoms improve, 1 in 5 unvaccinated children will be hospitalized, 1 out of every 1,000 will develop brain swelling that can lead to brain damage, and up to 3 of every 1,000 will die (https://www.cdc.gov/measles/symptoms/complications.html#). For unvaccinated people who are pregnant, measles infection can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth and low birth weight.

The risk of severe complications from measles persists even after a person appears to be fully recovered. In rare cases, people can experience a brain disease called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/subacute-sclerosing-panencephalitis#) that develops seven to 10 years after infection and leads to memory loss, involuntary movements, seizures, blindness and eventually death.
https://theconversation.com/measles-is-one-of-the-deadliest-and-most-contagious-infectious-diseases-and-one-of-the-most-easily-preventable-224493

[Blake]

SMH anti vaxxer morons

[Winehole23]

A person who was hospitalized has died from measles in West Texas (https://apnews.com/article/measles-texas-new-mexico-mmr-outbreak-vaccines-408371700e3ab548777bf0354e586549), the first death in an outbreak that began late last month.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa Whitfield confirmed the death Wednesday. It wasn’t clear the age of the patient, who died overnight.

Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-west-texas-death-rfk-41adc66641e4a56ce2b2677480031ab9

[Winehole23]

An unvaccinated school-aged child who was hospitalized with measles has died, marking the first death in a West Texas outbreak that began last month, according to Lubbock and state health officials.


Health officials on Wednesday said the child passed away in the past 24 hours.
https://myfox8.com/news/child-becomes-first-measles-death-reported-in-texas-outbreak/

[Blake]

https://myfox8.com/news/child-becomes-first-measles-death-reported-in-texas-outbreak/

".....Most of the cases have been concentrated in the under-vaccinted, close-knit local Mennonite community, according to Texas Department of State Health Services spokesperson Lara Anton.....

.....Measles was thought to be eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, about 30 years after the first MMR [measles, mumps, rubella] vaccine was approved. But a rise in vaccine skepticism in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has left a growing number of children vulnerable to the potentially deadly disease across the country.


https://www.newsweek.com/texas-measles-outbreak-mennonites-2034627

Fucking retarded antivaxxers and religious nuts. How many more kids gonna die?

[velik_m]

When questioned about a growing measles outbreak in West Texas that has claimed at least one life, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told reporters "we have measles outbreaks every year."

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/-it-s-not-unusual-rfk-jr-comments-on-growing-texas-measles-outbreak-232983109592

[Blake]

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/-it-s-not-unusual-rfk-jr-comments-on-growing-texas-measles-outbreak-232983109592

Fucking idiots voting for idiots who appoint idiots in positions they are ridiculously unqualified for

[ChumpDumper]

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/-it-s-not-unusual-rfk-jr-comments-on-growing-texas-measles-outbreak-232983109592

Well, now we do thanks in no small part to this drug dealer.

[velik_m]

In Early-Phase Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial, Investigational mRNA Vaccine Induces Sustained Immune Activity in Small Patient Group

An experimental approach to treating pancreatic cancer with the messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapeutic cancer vaccine autogene cevumeran continues to show potential to stimulate an immune response that may reduce the risk of the disease returning after surgery in a small patient group.

New results from the phase 1 clinical trial, now published in the journal Nature, show that the therapeutic cancer vaccine activated tumor-specific immune cells that persisted in the body up to nearly four years after treatment in some patients. In addition, patients with a vaccine-induced immune response had a reduced risk of the cancer coming back at a three-year follow-up compared with patients whose immune systems did not respond.

“The latest data from the phase 1 trial are encouraging,” says Vinod Balachandran, MD, principal investigator of the trial and senior author of the new publication. “They suggest this investigational therapeutic mRNA vaccine can mobilize anti-tumor T cells that may recognize pancreatic cancers as foreign, potentially years after vaccination.”

...


https://www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrna-vaccines-fight-pancreatic-cancer-msk-clinical-researchers-are-trying-find-out

Researched just in time to get banned!

FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US vaccine policy (https://endpts.com/fda-meeting-to-pick-next-winters-flu-shot-is-canceled/)

[Winehole23]

measles can wipe your immunity to other diseases



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:vumzskfjncyfwn3lsprn5fsf/bafkreiezucjdxfgyb4p3guiolfxrhyijjwgaxivs2sgixwqne kc24kfyve@jpeghttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opinion/texas-measles-vaccine.html

[velik_m]

Second person dies in US measles outbreak

A measles outbreak in the American southwest has killed a second person, an unvaccinated adult, New Mexico health officials have said.

The fatality comes roughly a week after measles took the life of an unvaccinated child in nearby Texas, the first US death from the disease since 2015.

Measles, which was considered "eliminated" in the US in 2000, is spreading quickly in Texas, with the state identifying 198 cases as of Friday, nearly 30 more since the state's last report on Tuesday. In the same span the number of cases in neighbouring New Mexico tripled, to 30.

The disease has also been reported in other states and across Canada, as well.

The person who died in New Mexico was a resident of Lea County, about 50 miles (80km) from Gaines County, Texas, where the outbreak appears to be centred.

...



https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2nzyjgrwxo

[Winehole23]

Measles outbreaks are a symptom of social breakdown

We're devolving under Trump

[Thread]

Measles outbreaks are a symptom of social breakdown

We're devolving under Trump


But how can you devolve within a week of his Inauguration? That's when the first case showed up there in TX..

[Winehole23]

not going away by itself


Texas doctors say they are worried about measles (https://www.theguardian.com/society/mmr) spreading to population centers in an outbreak the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expects to “expand rapidly (https://www.cdc.gov/han/2025/han00522.html)”.

Two people have died, including a child (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/texas-measles-outbreak-death-family/681985/), and at least 208 people have been sickened across west Texas (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/texas) and New Mexico (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/newmexico) after an outbreak of the vaccine-preventable disease took hold in rural Gaines county.

“It is worrisome,” said Dr Ron Cook, a family medicine specialist in Lubbock who serves as the county’s health authority. “Lubbock is the largest medical center, shopping center, etcetera between Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Dallas-Fort Worth”, and a place many from west Texas (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/texas) visit.

Residents of west Texas “come here to shop at the big box stores – Walmart, Costco, Sam’s and so forth,” said Cook, adding that Lubbock hospitals have already treated 38 measles patients from the outbreak.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/texas-measles-outbreak-spread

[Winehole23]

But how can you devolve within a week of his Inauguration? That's when the first case showed up there in TX..Biden's public health policy was dogshit, but at least he didn't downplay vaccination (the most powerful countermeasure to protect against measles) or take a wrecking ball to health agencies and health sciences research.

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kp7dr5clafxjgm3gcrsij66a/bafkreibi46a42nb35ukzvkw4ayqkpslnduxlw6n2zyfhygzpi g5alozm3m@jpeg

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/health/tuberculosis-kenya-us-cuts.html?rsrc=ss&unlocked_article_code=1.3U4.KDU-.5djIFCj9KW6w&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[Blake]

Biden's public health policy was dogshit, but at least he didn't downplay vaccination (the most powerful countermeasure to protect against measles) or take a wrecking ball to health agencies and health sciences research.

This can be traced back to Covid days when there was so much fear mongering going on about vaccinations in general.

And that taking horse pills was a better remedy....

Americans are so stupid

[Thread]

Biden's public health policy was dogshit, but at least he didn't downplay vaccination (the most powerful countermeasure to protect against measles) or take a wrecking ball to health agencies and health sciences research.

Because [[[forcing]]] Americans to vaccinate their children is a hard sell. Sure, it worked in the backwash of WWII., but starting in the late '60's it gets more difficult as we learn the dishonesty of American gov't. We're forbidden to know what happened with JFK. We're forbidden to know what happened with RFK and MLK, and Malcolm X. With UFO's. And I mean this gov't ain't a gonna tell us. NO!

Hell, they won't even tell us we're giving free healthcare to Israel and Ukraine. Even big shot Trump will grudge 'em on a bevy of points, but, will not indict them on this. FOX won't tell us. CNN won't tell us and brag. It's a GD gentlemen's agreement.

Trump reads Biden's last letter left in the WH for him with kindness and understanding and then proceeds to blast him on a daily basis. Calls him everything but a White man. It's disingenuous and humiliating to behold. Either Joe is a monster, or not. Make up your fuckin' mind.

But they want to mandate you take a shot in the arm.

No.

[Thread]

This can be traced back to Covid days when there was so much fear mongering going on about vaccinations in general.

And that taking horse pills was a better remedy....

Americans are so stupid

...and the bleach cure. Remember, tights?

[Winehole23]

Measles wipes immunity to other diseases


Measles is unlike other childhood viruses that come and go. In severe cases it can cause pneumonia. About 1 in 1,000 patients develops encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, and there are 1 or 2 deaths per 1,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The virus can wipe out the immune system, a complication called “immune amnesia.”

When we get sick with viruses or bacteria, our immune systems have the ability to form memories that quickly allow them to recognize and respond to the pathogens if they’re encountered again.

Measles targets cells in the body, such as plasma cells and memory cells, that contain those immunologic memories, destroying some of them in the process.

“Nobody escapes this,” said Dr. Michael Mina, a vaccine expert and former professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who has led some of the research in the field.

In a 2019 study, Mina and his team found that a measles infection can wreck anywhere from 11% to 73% of a person’s antibody stockpile (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay6485), depending on how severe the infection. That means that if people had 100 antibodies to chickenpox before they had measles, they may be left with just 50 after measles infections, potentially making them more vulnerable to catching it and getting sicker.

Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunology at the Yale School of Medicine, said: “That’s why it’s called amnesia. We forget who the enemies are.” https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-immune-system-brain-swelling-long-term-rcna195918

[Winehole23]

In an earlier study from 2015, Mina estimated that before vaccinations, when measles was common, the virus could have been implicated in as many as half of all childhood deaths from infectious disease (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaa3662), mostly from other diseases such as pneumonia, sepsis, diarrheal diseases and meningitis.

The researchers found that after a measles infection, the immune system can be suppressed almost immediately and remain that way for two to three years.

“Immune amnesia really begins as soon as the virus replicates in those [memory] cells,” Mina said.

The best defense against serious complications is the measles vaccine (https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/childhood-vaccines-adults-booster-shots-measles-texas-what-know-rcna193197). Two doses of the vaccine are 97% effective in preventing infection.

[Winehole23]

...and the bleach cure. Remember, tights?

https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/04/DD-COMPOSITE-DONALD.jpg?strip=all&quality=100&w=1500&h=1000&crop=1


"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.

"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177

[Thread]

https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/04/DD-COMPOSITE-DONALD.jpg?strip=all&quality=100&w=1500&h=1000&crop=1

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177

He was frustrated, his balloon had been severely bursted. And what's more? He knew. And (they/you guys) knew he knew it.

Nothin' he could do but tuck his tail and wait for---what turned out to be (now)...and repeat what he'd said in '17 after the Griffin girl had threatened to saw his head off...

"But I'm President, and their not."

[ChumpDumper]

Welp.

1902834656971723213

https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1902834656971723213

[Thread]

Welp.

1902834656971723213

https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1902834656971723213


It's a free country, more or less...cept when you want to know who killed Epstein, JFK, RFK, MLK, 9/11, on & on.
tee, hee.

[Winehole23]

It's a free country, more or less...cept when you want to know who killed Epstein, JFK, RFK, MLK, 9/11, on & on.
tee, hee.The Trump disclosures are disappointing, eh?

[Thread]

The Trump disclosures are disappointing, eh?

Of course. We know no more than we knew before them.

They're not going to disclose the truth of any of these events, ever. No way.

[Thread]

Of course. We know no more than we knew before them.

They're not going to disclose the truth of any of these events, ever. No way.

And Trump goes right along with that rule. That rule is non-negotiable. "We'll let you close gov't offices and toss illegals out, and fly 'em out, but, here is the list of things that must be obeyed, or, the next time we will not miss, sir."

"Understood. McDonald's? On me."

[SnakeBoy]

Malpractice lawsuit incoming

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/medical-error-death-6-year-old-girl-pneumonia-after-measles/

When the girl was admitted to the ER, the staff made a general diagnosis that she had a secondary bacterial pneumonia. “She was clearly being admitted from the community so it was implied that it was a community-acquired pneumonia,” Kory said, referring to how the girl didn’t get the pneumonia from being in a hospital or healthcare facility.

They were “absolutely correct” about that, Kory said.

But what they initially gave her for that diagnosis was incorrect, he said.

Generally, doctors put patients on two antibiotics “to cover all the possibilities” of what specific kind of bacterial pneumonia the patient may have.

Kory said:

“It’s in every guideline — infectious disease, pulmonary — every guideline in the country tells you that for a hospitalized child or adult who gets admitted to the hospital, you put them on two antibiotics.

“One is from a category called beta-lactams, which is like penicillin, cephalosporins. And they [the hospital] got that part correct. They put her on something called ceftriaxone, which was excellent.

“But you always need to pair it with an antibiotic from a different category, which is called a macrolide or a quinolone.”

They didn’t do that part, Kory said. “They didn’t put her on the most common, which is azithromycin.”

Instead, they put her on vancomycin, an antibiotic used for very drug-resistant organisms like MRSA.

[ChumpDumper]

Should've gotten the vaccine.:tu

[SnakeBoy]

should've given her a z pack

weird because they hand them out like candy usually

[ChumpDumper]

should've given her a z pack

weird because they hand them out like candy usuallyShoud've gotten an MMR like any non-insane parent would get them.

Weird because they're widely available and effective.

[SnakeBoy]

Shoud've gotten an MMR like any non-insane parent would get them.

Weird because they're widely available and effective.

Think that defense holds up in court?

[ChumpDumper]

Think that defense holds up in court?Would've alived the child.

Not that you give any shits about that at all.

[SnakeBoy]

Would've alived the child.

Not that you give any shits about that at all.

Z pack would've done that too

You gave the thumbs up to the kid dying not me

[ChumpDumper]

Z pack would've done that tooMMR would've obviated all that. Sorry. You're not going to win being anti-vaxx when you've been vaxxed to the gills.

You gave the thumbs up to the kid dying not meThumbs up for life-saving vaccines, which you are clearly against for no reason whatsoever.

[SnakeBoy]

MMR would've obviated all that. Sorry. You're not going to win being anti-vaxx when you've been vaxxed to the gills.
Thumbs up for life-saving vaccines, which you are clearly against for no reason whatsoever.

Nothing I've said is anti-vax.

You're happy the child is dead because the hospital docs fucked up...serves them parents right huh?

[ChumpDumper]

Nothing I've said is anti-vax.

You're happy the child is dead because the hospital docs fucked up...serves them parents right huh?It's really sad. Nothing to be happy about besides your meltdown and the real effort you're putting in here to win the internet this Saturday night.

They should've vaxxed the kid. Easy peasy. That is all their fault their kid is dead and they'll have to live with that. I don't wish that on them. I wish they had vaxxed their kid.

[Blake]

Welp.

1902834656971723213

https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1902834656971723213

No doubt in my mind who they voted for

[SnakeBoy]

It's really sad. Nothing to be happy about besides your meltdown and the real effort you're putting in here to win the internet this Saturday night.

They should've vaxxed the kid. Easy peasy. That is all their fault their kid is dead and they'll have to live with that. I don't wish that on them. I wish they had vaxxed their kid.

Okay, you're really sad

Do you think the hospital should be off the hook for their actions because the parents should've done something 5 years ago?

[ChumpDumper]

Okay, you're really sad

Do you think the hospital should be off the hook for their actions because the parents should've done something 5 years ago?

Never said any of that. The sad truth is the parents could've avoided the hospital visit and the inherent risks with a couple of shots during trips to Walmart.

Did you win yet?

[Winehole23]

Refusing vaccination but then taking your kid to a modern hospital for high tech, often invasive and drug-laden treatment of their acute illness, seems dissonant

[Thread]

Refusing vaccination but then taking your kid to a modern hospital for high tech, often invasive and drug-laden treatment of their acute illness, seems dissonant

...like illegals jamming U.S. hospitals for free emergency health-care on demand.

[Thread]

Never said any of that. The sad truth is the parents could've avoided the hospital visit and the inherent risks with a couple of shots during trips to Walmart.

Did you win yet?

Yeah,

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-23-at-4.15.06%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=1024,579

[SnakeBoy]

Refusing vaccination but then taking your kid to a modern hospital for high tech, often invasive and drug-laden treatment of their acute illness, seems dissonant

Irrelevant to the Standard Of Care the modern hospitals are required to provide. Well, you should've would be an awesome defense for Docs to have though.

I sprained my ankle, and you amputated my leg
Well, you should've watched where you were walking


No doubt in my mind who they voted for

and that's all that matters to the TDS afflicted

[ChumpDumper]

No one is excusing the doctors for malpractice if that's what happened.

We know the parents didn't vaccinate the child. They could've prevented all this.

Tell me a good reason for them to put their child at such a risk in the first place.

[SnakeBoy]

Chump folds

[Dod01]

It's unfortunate that there are so many right-wingers who don't believe in vaccines.

Mark my words: In the next major pandemic, there are going to be tons of Trumpies and right-wingers dropping like flies (good thing or bad thing?) because of their refusal to get vaccinated.

Good for them they got away with it during Covid. Next pandemic, it's going to come back to haunt them, big time.

[baseline bum]

It's unfortunate that there are so many right-wingers who don't believe in vaccines.

Mark my words: In the next major pandemic, there are going to be tons of Trumpies and right-wingers dropping like flies (good thing or bad thing?) because of their refusal to get vaccinated.

Good for them they got away with it during Covid. Next pandemic, it's going to come back to haunt them, big time.


Be a lot of everyone dropping in the next pandemic in Shithole America since the Fourth Reich won't invest in vaccine development.

[ChumpDumper]

Chump folds
Folds what?

You into a pretzel trying to be pro and antivax at once?:lol

[Dod01]

Be a lot of everyone dropping in the next pandemic in Shithole America since the Fourth Reich won't invest in vaccine development.

Try as they (the 4th Reich) may, if it's bad enough to where it affects dad to day society like it did with Covid, a vaccine will surely be developed fairly quickly. When it doesn't have that day to day impact the way Covid did, big Farma usually doesn't give a shit, and no vaccine will be made.

Honestly, in my opinion, they could cure headaches (or anything, really, imo) if they really wanted to, but stuff like that doesn't really affect the national and worldwide economic bottom line the way a highly contagious major pandemic does.

[baseline bum]

Try as they (the 4th Reich) may, if it's bad enough to where it affects dad to day society like it did with Covid, a vaccine will surely be developed fairly quickly. When it doesn't have that day to day impact the way Covid did, big Farma usually doesn't give a shit, and no vaccine will be made.

Doubtful. Trump doesn't have any responsible adults around him this term like he did last time.

[Dod01]

Doubtful. Trump doesn't have any responsible adults around him this term like he did last time.

:lol

Very true actually. When righties say things such as "Well how come Trump didn't do anything last time!?!?! He could've done it lass time!!!!"

This is the most power the extreme racist right-wing has EVER had in this country since pre Civil Rights and the slave era. EVER. This isn't your 4th cousin's sister's boyfriend's pet lizard's Trump administration.

[baseline bum]

:lol

Very true actually. When righties say things such as "Well how come Trump didn't do anything last time!?!?! He could've done it lass time!!!!"

This is the most power the extreme racist right-wing has EVER had in this country since pre Civil Rights and the slave era. EVER. This isn't your 4th cousin's sister's boyfriend's pet lizard's Trump administration.

Trump is Andrew Jackson the sequel and the Roberts court is just as awful as Jackson's Taney court.

[Dod01]

Trump is Andrew Jackson the sequel and the Roberts court is just as awful as Jackson's Taney court.

:lol Hilarious because true. Plus only two months in, and there are already rumblings of certain Republicans trying to get Trump a third term. I have a knack for predicting as well as seeing things exactly as they are, but I'm actually hoping, praying, that I will turn out dead wrong on everything with the right-wing. I doubt it unfortunately.

[Blake]

Refusing vaccination but then taking your kid to a modern hospital for high tech, often invasive and drug-laden treatment of their acute illness, seems dissonant

Seriously. Would the family have even trusted taking a ZPac?

[Blake]

:lol Hilarious because true. Plus only two months in, and there are already rumblings of certain Republicans trying to get Trump a third term. I have a knack for predicting things, but I'm actually hoping, praying, that I will turn out dead wrong on everything, but I doubt it unfortunately.

Shit they were pushing Trump third term almost from day 1

[Blake]

I sprained my ankle, and you amputated my leg
Well, you should've watched where you were walking

Totally spot on analogy!




and that's all that matters to the TDS afflicted

Well no, my point really is that if it's an uneducated, stupid religious nut, they most likely voted for Trump.

[Dod01]

Shit they were pushing Trump third term almost from day 1

Yes they were, very true. Hopefully it's just rumblings but the intentions are there no doubt. And they are dead serious about it too, they aren't joking at all. This could gain legitimate traction, very soon.

[Blake]

"...Congressman Andy Ogles introduced a House Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to allow a President to be elected for up to but no more than three terms. The language of the proposed amendment reads as follows:......

http://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-proposes-amending-22nd-amendment-allow-trump-serve-third-term

[Dod01]

"...Congressman Andy Ogles introduced a House Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to allow a President to be elected for up to but no more than three terms. The language of the proposed amendment reads as follows:......

http://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-proposes-amending-22nd-amendment-allow-trump-serve-third-term

Yupp, and they've manipulated the proposal so that Barack Obama would be disqualified from attempting to run against Trump for a third term himself.

In an even more horrible parallel universe (we're not that far off from it in the present universe) than the one we're currently in, if Trump does get a third term, there would be a proposal by a right-winger where the stipulation "up to, but no more than three terms" would be replaced with "up to, but no more than four terms". Rinse and repeat.

These people are dead serious on a dictatorship, no doubt. There is one problem that though that the right-wing are forgetting: We're in the United States of America. Even though their full intention is to go to a dictatorship, it's not going to be as easy as they think. We're not in an undeveloped third-world country.

I'd say the right-wing does outnumber us, as the mass brainwashing they pulled off was about as successful as they ever could've imagined, but not as much as they think. There are TONS of people that see through the BS of the extreme right-wing, even though again, I believe we are currently outnumbered.

But once again, they don't outnumber us by that much. The 2024 election and Trump's win wasn't a landslide at all, no matter what they "say".

[SnakeBoy]

"...Congressman Andy Ogles introduced a House Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to allow a President to be elected for up to but no more than three terms. The language of the proposed amendment reads as follows:......

http://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-proposes-amending-22nd-amendment-allow-trump-serve-third-term

Wording sucks...good way to get Obama back in tbh

[Thread]

Wording sucks...good way to get Obama back in tbh

The Magic Negro indeed..."I won't be a White President. Or, a Black President, but a President for all Americans."

tee, hee.

[Winehole23]

Vitamin A is toxic if overused

Pushing this and soft-pedaling MMR vaccines is malpractice


Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock confirms it is treating children with severe cases of measles who are also suffering from vitamin A toxicity. According to the hospital, they have admitted fewer than 10 pediatric patients who were all initially hospitalized due to measles complications but have elevated levels of vitamin A that is resulting in abnormal liver function.


There is no evidence that taking vitamin A will prevent measles.

The World Health Organization has administered vitamin A in Africa to reduce mortality during measles outbreaks. This is a strategy in a part of the world with widespread malnourishment, and vitamin A deficiency compromises the immune system. However, malnourishment is not a problem in West Texas or in other locations where the measles outbreak has spread in the U.S.
https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak

[Thread]

Vitamin A is toxic if overused

Pushing this and soft-pedaling MMR vaccines is malpractice



https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak

You have to be a fool to take a shot because the gov't tells you to, or, mandates that you must. No matter the country.

It's incredible that people actually follow these orders, mandates, or, advisories.

[SnakeBoy]

Vitamin A is toxic if overused

Pushing this and soft-pedaling MMR vaccines is malpractice



https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak

The CDC also said vitamin A may be administered to infants and children in the United States with measles as part of supportive management, which is consistent with AAP guidance. Children with severe measles, such as those who are hospitalized, should receive vitamin A under the supervision of a health care provider.

[ChumpDumper]

The CDC also said vitamin A may be administered to infants and children in the United States with measles as part of supportive management, which is consistent with AAP guidance. Children with severe measles, such as those who are hospitalized, should receive vitamin A under the supervision of a health care provider.It's obvious they didn't, you moron.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[velik_m]

An Ivermectin Influencer Died. Now His Followers Are Worried About Their Own ‘Severe’ Symptoms.

...

For the last decade, Lemoi had taken a daily dose of veterinary ivermectin, a dewormer designed to be used on large animals like horses and cows. In 2021, as ivermectin became a popular alternative COVID-19 treatment among anti-vaxxers, he launched what became one of the largest Telegram channels dedicated to promoting the use of it, including instructions on how to administer ivermectin to children.

But despite Lemoi’s death, the administrators of his channel are pushing his misinformation—even as his followers share their own worrying possible side effects from taking ivermectin and some question the safety of the drug.

...

“No one can convince me that he died because of ivermectin,” one member wrote this week. “He ultimately died because of our failed western medicine which only cares about profits and not the cure.”

Despite Lemoi’s death, administrators said this week the Telegram channel would live on, and the group is attracting new members who continue to take ivermectin despite suffering serious side effects.

“I am very new to this… I’ve been on Bimectin paste for 20 days,” one new member wrote on Friday morning, explaining that he too was suffering from Lyme disease. “I have severe chest pain. Costochondritis symptoms. Air hunger, internal tremors, brain fog, headaches on the back of my head, anxiety, depression, doom and gloominess.”



https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/03/14/an-ivermectin-influencer-died-now-his-followers-are-worried-about-their-own-severe-symptoms/

[Winehole23]

wild local reporting

https://alexmorozovny.substack.com/p/real-story-of-the-measles-case-vibrating

[Winehole23]

killer comes to the funeral


Another child with measles in Texas has died, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed late Saturday night, though the exact cause of death is under investigation.


This would be the second pediatric death (https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/person-dies-measles-west-texas-outbreak-rcna193812) amid a fast-growing outbreak that’s infected nearly 500 people in Texas alone since January. An adult in New Mexico is also suspected of dying from measles. The deaths are the first from the disease in the United States in a decade.



HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was expected to attend the child’s funeral, which is scheduled for Sunday, according to a person familiar with the plans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/second-measles-death-texas-child-kennedy-rcna199882

[Winehole23]

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

[velik_m]

Measles Cases In The U.S. Just Hit 1,000. RFK Jr. Still Isn't Taking It Seriously.

Cases of measles in the U.S. surpassed 1,000 for just the second time in 30 years this week. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. still isn’t taking it seriously.

The deadly and fast-spreading outbreak that first started in western Texas in January has spread to at least 31 states, with 1,001 cases in total reported, according to Friday data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Texas currently has the most cases at 709. Three unvaccinated people have died, including two school-aged children from Texas. Data from the CDC shows that 96% of cases in the U.S. came from people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. More than 120 people have been hospitalized.

As the onslaught continues, Kennedy ― an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who now heads the nation’s top health agency ― has routinely downplayed the deadly spread, including promoting a range of unproven treatments.

After the death of a 6-year-old boy in February, Kennedy said the child’s death was “not unusual.”

...


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-measles-cases-1000-rfk-jr-hhs_n_681f8e4be4b0108bb6b70ed3

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

from an array of policy options, Republicans can be relied upon to choose the ones most harmful to people


Texas this year has been the center of the nation’s largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened more than 700 in the state, sent dozens to hospitals and led to the death of two children who were unvaccinated.

But even as the outbreak slows, a bill approved by state lawmakers and sent to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott would make it significantly easier for parents to enroll their children in school without standard vaccinations for diseases such as measles, whooping cough, polio and hepatitis A and B.

Supporters say the bill streamlines an already legal exemption process that allows families to avoid vaccines for reasons of conscience, religious beliefs or medical reasons. It would let them download the required forms from a website instead of contacting state health officials and waiting for one to come in the mail.

The bill does not change which vaccines are required. However, critics say easing the exemption process opens a door to further outbreaks with potentially deadly results.

“If this bill becomes law, Texas is likely to see more illness, more death and higher health care costs for families and business,” Rekha Lakshmanan, chief strategy officer for Texas-based nonprofit Immunization Project, told state senators before the bill won final approval.
https://www.wjtv.com/living-local/focused-on-health/ap-amid-measles-outbreak-texas-is-poised-to-make-vaccine-exemptions-for-kids-easier/

[velik_m]

US Measles Cases at an All-Time High After Disease 'Eliminated'

The United States is experiencing its worst measles outbreak since the disease was declared "eliminated" in 2000, with 1,277 confirmed cases reported as of July 5, according to Johns Hopkins University Center for Outbreak Response Innovation.

This figure has already surpassed the 1,274 cases recorded during the peak year of 2019, marking a critical public health milestone reached just halfway through 2025.

...

The outbreak has resulted in at least 155 hospitalizations, affecting 431 adults and 824 children, with three confirmed deaths. Two elementary school-aged children died in West Texas, while one adult died in New Mexico—all were unvaccinated. The CDC confirmed that 1,267 cases were officially reported through their surveillance system as of Wednesday.

The majority of cases stem from a large outbreak originating in West Texas, where 753 confirmed cases have been reported across 36 counties since January. Gaines County remains the epicenter, with 55 percent of Texas cases concentrated in this area after the virus spread through a close-knit, undervaccinated Mennonite community.

Some critics say Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s efforts to contain the epidemic in the tight-knit, religious West Texas community ran counter to established public health strategies used to end past epidemics.

"The hyperpartisanship we're experiencing, coupled with the de-prioritization of policy expertise, is leading to profound divides in trust in agencies and health recommendations, and this trust will be difficult to rebuild, especially as we see the continued hollowing out of the public health bureaucracy," Miranda Yaver, assistant professor of health policy and management at the University of Pittsburgh, previously told Newsweek.

...


https://www.newsweek.com/us-measles-cases-all-time-high-after-disease-eliminated-2095213

[Winehole23]

hot boxing measles to own the libs

[velik_m]

It looks like Canada's Texas is also having some issues:


Alberta's measles outbreaks surpass case counts reported for entire U.S.

...
According to provincial data, there had been 102 hospitalizations, including 15 ICU admissions, as of July 5. No deaths have been reported.

The latest national statistics show 58 per cent of the new cases reported during the week of June 22 to June 28 were in Alberta.

"We know that per capita we have more measles cases in Alberta than really anywhere else in North America," said Craig Jenne, a professor in the department of microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Calgary.

"We have heard stories that there may be underreporting in the U.S. but even the fact that we're close to those numbers is quite concerning given we have almost a hundredth the population."
...


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-s-measles-outbreaks-surpass-case-counts-reported-for-entire-u-s-1.7584490

[Winehole23]

negging proven measles prevention in favor of uncertain treatments



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:svawqo4jxobyyuqmixplvcux/bafkreielcnjf5zghjzkjmzhzvuyh62uueajc2meoja2wscb6s qafb7yil4@jpeghttps://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/measles-treatment-vaccine-infection-numbers-c8327637?st=U4LzFx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[Winehole23]

Doubtful. Trump doesn't have any responsible adults around him this term like he did last time.Peter Navarro screamed his head off about COVID. Weird that he counts as a responsible adult, in retrospect.

But all his first-term subs were more independent and less subject to surveillance at work.

[SnakeBoy]

“I am very new to this… I’ve been on Bimectin paste for 20 days,” one new member wrote on Friday morning

https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/03/14/an-ivermectin-influencer-died-now-his-followers-are-worried-about-their-own-severe-symptoms/

That one only comes in Apple flavored and scented for excellent palatability and ease of dosing. So it's a good choice of ivermectin paste if you're going to eat ivermectin paste.

[Winehole23]

now Utah and Arizona


“I’ve worked for this health department for about 18 years, and we’ve never seen a case of measles that I know of up until this point,” said David Heaton, the public information officer for the Southwest Utah Public Health Department. “We are just at that low rate of (vaccine) uptake that does leave us open for this kind of an outbreak.”https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-outbreak-utah-arizona-vaccines-data-schools-rcna232399

[velik_m]

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved one step closer to his goal of dismantling the nation’s premier public-health agency by dismissing more than 1,000 scientists, doctors and public health officials from the Department of Health and Human Services late Friday night.

The dramatic move came during the second week of a government shutdown and is part of the Trump administration’s aggressive push to even further slash the size of the federal workforce and punish Democrats. The culling reportedly started with at least 4,000 people across departments including Education, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development and Energy, among others.

But the bloodshed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was especially acute, according to a list crowdsourced by CDC employees who received layoff notices that was viewed by MSNBC. The firings ran across more than a dozen CDC divisions and centers, wiping out entire offices and teams that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses, collect data, publish scientific reports and communicate with global partners and Congress.

...

The CDC has traditionally operated as a nonpartisan institution — its career officials have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations. But there has been a sharp departure from that norm under Kennedy’s tenure.

Trump warned he would seek to ensure the harshest effects of the shutdown would affect Democratic priorities.

“We’re only cutting Democrat programs,” Trump said Thursday during a Cabinet meeting.

The current sweep of the governmentwide cuts is still unknown, but seems to target leadership positions, according to two former senior officials. A former senior official said the CDC cuts amounted to more than 9% of the agency’s remaining workforce, which had already weathered mass layoffs early this year.

...

In a 2023 interview during his failed presidential run, Kennedy said of the CDC and other public health agencies that he wanted to “unravel the corrupt corporate capture of these agencies that turned them predatory, against the American public.” He said he planned to fire officials in charge and appoint people who would “turn them back into healing and public health agencies.”

Neither Kennedy nor the CDC’s acting director, Jim O’Neill — a recent political appointee with little experience — had commented publicly on the firings by Saturday afternoon. O’Neill’s most recent post to X was a photo of what he said was a bald eagle flying over the Capitol, taken from his Washington, D.C., office. He captioned it, “Good morning we are going to win.”


https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/cdc-rfk-jr-shutdown-layoffs-goal-rcna237035

[Winehole23]

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/cdc-rfk-jr-shutdown-layoffs-goal-rcna237035some of these RIFs were reversed, but the animus against public health is still clear

[Winehole23]

“I’m happy people are back, but this damage is not easy to repair both for current staff and for people who will lead public health in the future,” he added.

The agency’s entire Washington office, which was laid off on Friday, will not be rehired. Nor will employees of the office of the director of the center for injury prevention, or those at the division of violence prevention policy.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-layoffs-measles.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-layoffs-measles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.x-YN.Q_Vj1W7ujmHV&smid=url-share)

[Winehole23]

maha


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3gStOeXkAAjCv3?format=jpg&name=small

[Winehole23]

MAHA


C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time

If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/health/measles-us-elimination-status-outbreaks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2E8.urYe.LZ ZxBOjJfCBE&smid=url-share

[Winehole23]

three children have died of pertussis in KY


https://s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-network/production/files/140502/original/KDPH_Pertussis_Health_Alert_11.21.25.pdf?176375379 5

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Measles becoming endemic again

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2152300024-1152x648.jpg


A measles outbreak that began in South Carolina at the start of October is showing no signs of slowing as officials on Tuesday reported 27 new cases since Friday. Those cases bring the outbreak total to 111.

The southern state’s outbreak now rivals outbreaks ongoing in Utah (https://files.epi.utah.gov/Utah%20measles%20dashboard.html) and Arizona (https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/measles/index.php), which have tallied 115 and 176 cases, respectively. The outbreaks are threatening to cost the country its measles elimination status (https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/cdc-data-confirms-us-is-2-months-away-from-losing-measles-elimination-status/), which was earned in 2020 after vaccination efforts stopped the virus from spreading continuously. If the current transmission of the virus isn’t halted by January, the virus will have circulated for 12 consecutive months, marking it once again as an endemic disease in the US.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/12/over-250-people-quarantined-in-south-carolina-as-measles-outbreak-rages/

[DarrinS]

I'm sure all of the millions that Biden encouraged to "surge the border" were fully screened for infectious diseases.

[ChumpDumper]

I'm sure all of the millions that Biden encouraged to "surge the border" were fully screened for infectious diseases.

What if all those American citizens had just taken some personal responsibility and gotten vaccinated themselves, Darrin?

What would have happened?

In your personal opinion, of course.

[Blake]

I'm sure all of the millions that Biden encouraged to "surge the border" were fully screened for infectious diseases.

LOOK OVER AT THE BORDER FOR ILLEGAL ALIEN DISEASES THAT I DON'T CARE IF THEY WEAR A MASK ANY WAY BECAUSE COVID IS JUST A COLD

[Winehole23]

I'm sure all of the millions that Biden encouraged to "surge the border" were fully screened for infectious diseases.


Of the state’s 27 new cases, 16 were linked to exposure at a church, the Way of Truth Church in Inman

[ChumpDumper]

I'm sure an illegal immigrant who had been contagious for over a year because that's how measles work with them broke into that church and licked all the doorknobs.

Just amazing backflips by Darrin. Trumptards actively want to be stupid for their Trump.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said the United States has 1,912 confirmed measles (https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html) cases so far in 2025, an increase of 84 cases since last week and a bad sign as holiday gatherings, travel, and indoor activities is set to pick up in the final weeks of the year.


In January 2026, the United States is at risk of losing its measles elimination status because of ongoing transmission chains from a West Texas outbreak that began early last year and sickened roughly 800 people. The country first gained elimination status in 2000.
Eighty-eight percent of cases in the United States this year are outbreak-associated, and there have been 47 outbreaks recorded. Last year, 16 outbreaks were reported during 2024 and 69% of cases (198 of 285) were outbreak-associated.


Currently Utah, Arizona, and South Carolina are seeing large outbreaks that since Thanksgiving have pushed state totals well past 100 cases. Those outbreaks have been marked by exposures at schools and churches in communities with low vaccination levels.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-exceeds-1900-measles-cases-outbreaks-expand

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Measles deranges the immune system, sometimes chronically

It wipes immunity, leaving people susceptible to catching diseases they already had acquired immunity to


Reporting today in Science (https://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aay6485), the researchers show that the measles virus wipes out 11 percent to 73 percent of the different antibodies that protect against viral and bacterial strains a person was previously immune to — anything from influenza to herpesvirus to bacteria that cause pneumonia and skin infections.


Elledge, Mina, and colleagues found that those who survive measles gradually regain their previous immunity to other viruses and bacteria as they get re-exposed to them. But because this process may take months to years, people remain vulnerable in the meantime to serious complications of those infections.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/how-measles-wipes-out-the-bodys-immune-memory/

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Measles (https://www.britannica.com/science/measles) is one of the most contagious diseases in the world, with a basic R0 value ranging from 12 to 18, meaning that a single infected person can spread the measles virus (https://www.britannica.com/science/virus) to as many as 18 others in a susceptible population. The disease is caused by the measles virus, which spreads through droplets that are released into the air by coughing and sneezing. The virus can linger (https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/linger) in the air for as long as two hours, increasing its chances of transmission to a new host. Despite its severity, measles is preventable through the MMR vaccine (https://www.britannica.com/science/MMR-vaccine), which protects against measles, mumps (https://www.britannica.com/science/mumps), and rubella (https://www.britannica.com/science/rubella). High vaccination coverage—typically 95 percent or more—is essential to achieve herd immunity (https://www.britannica.com/science/herd-immunity) and prevent outbreaks.https://www.britannica.com/topic/List-of-Most-Contagious-Diseases

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LOOK OVER AT THE BORDER FOR ILLEGAL ALIEN DISEASES THAT I DON'T CARE IF THEY WEAR A MASK ANY WAY BECAUSE COVID IS JUST A COLDMeasles is airborne.

It's still customary to quarantine -- lock down -- infected people. Even in 2025.

[Blake]

Measles is airborne.

It's still customary to quarantine -- lock down -- infected people. Even in 2025.

MEH JUST CHICKEN POX AND I'VE ALREADY HAD IT

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MAHA


“Over the last seven to nine days, we’ve had upwards of over 200 new cases. That’s doubled just in the last week,” Dr. Johnathon Elkes, an emergency medicine physician at Prisma Health in Greenville, South Carolina, said during a media briefing Friday. “We feel like we’re really kind of staring over the edge, knowing that this is about to get a lot worse.”


The South Carolina Health Department said that 531 people are in a 21-day quarantine following an exposure to measles.


The number of cases is expected to grow. The health department’s report only reflects the number of people whose illness has been confirmed as measles by a lab.


Because measles is so contagious and people can spread the virus up to four days before symptoms appear, each sick individual has the potential to infect 12 other people, LaCroix said during the briefing.


“The numbers that you see are actually an undercount,” said Dr. Deborah Greenhouse, a Columbia, South Carolina-based pediatrician, in a separate interview. “The reality is that there’s a lot more. Not everyone with measles is going to see a physician.” Greenhouse is also a past president of the South Carolina chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-cases-double-vaccines-quarantine-rcna253989

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better late than never


Yesterday Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acting director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, posted a video on X promoting the measles vaccine as cases continue to mount across the United States.


"Measles is preventable and vaccination remains the most effective way to protect yourself and those around you,” Bhattacharya said in the video statement. (https://x.com/CDCgov/status/2028515731059425704) Bhattacharya said trust is the foundation of public health, and that he would be ensuring the CDC was working with state partners to maintain trust and best practices.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/bhattacharya-urges-measles-vaccination-us-activity-increases

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Vinay Prasad is out at FDA, per WSJ

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https://publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/resources/us-measles-tracker

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[Blake]

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MAHA!!

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RFK Jr and his toadies need to be punished for what they're doing to public health in this country