#Australia should stop arrivals or put in #quarantine anyone from or travelling through the #US due to #Trump government lack of medical response to #contagious #diseases.
#Covid #RubyPrincess #CruiseShip #disaster waiting to happen all over again #auspol #RFK
Houston has a new measles case. Travel case (infant) not connected to the outbreak in Texas.
The Houston Health Department confirms travel-associated measles case in infant
March 16, 2025
HOUSTON - The Houston Health Department (HHD) has confirmed the city’s third measles case of 2025. The case involves an unvaccinated infant who was exposed to measles during international travel. The infant was hospitalized and has since been discharged and is recovering at home.
This case is not connected to the measles outbreak in West Texas. This case is not related to the two earlier cases of measles reported in Houston in January 2025.
As well, the world should stop arrivals or put in #quarantine anyone from or travelling through the #US due to lack of medical response to #contagious #diseases. #measles #vaccinations #USPol #auspol #RFK
Hey #GenX I'm a bit worried that a lot of you aren't clear about #Measles vs #Rubella
And it's still bloody confusing to me because another name for measles is apparently Rubeola and when I searched "Measles" just now I saw that and I thought there was just confusion on someone's part about how to spell a weird latin disease name.
But anyways, we all most of us got Rubella as kids, and the grownups called it Measles, or else German Measles, but that was Rubella. Little red rashies everywhere for a few days, no further ill effects. One of those "harmless childhood diseases" that antivax crew love to deathcult about.
Measles or "Red Measles" or Rubeola, on the other hand, that shit is bad. Real fuckin bad. And as I understand it, that's what is on the spread.
Rubella = German Measles = don't panic.
Measles = Rubeola = antivaxxers are participants in multiple homicides.
So my concern is, that a lot of you are brushing off the Measles outbreaks, because you think it's Rubella.
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WALMART? Sam's CLUB? Lowe's? Sprouts? Kohl's? Aldi... Egads.
Friday, March 14, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY - Today, the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) is reporting two more probable measles cases. The OSDH received notification of the cases on March 14, 2025, and immediately began its investigation.
Business: Kohl's
Address: 12405 E 96th St N, Owasso, OK 74055
Date: Feb. 27, 2025
Time: 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Business: Aldi
Address: 9259 N Owasso Expressway, Owasso, OK 74055
Date: Feb. 27, 2025
Time: 4:20 - 7:00 p.m.
Business: Walmart Supercenter
Address: 12101 E 96th St N, Owasso, OK 74055
Date: Feb. 27, 2025
Time: 5:15 - 8:00 p.m.
Business: Sam's Club
Address: 12905 E 96th St N, Owasso, OK 74055
Date: Feb. 27, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 9:21 p.m.
Business: Sprouts Farmers Market
Address: 9601 N 133rd E Ave, Owasso, OK 74055
Date: Feb. 27, 2025
Time: 7:30 - 10:02 p.m.
Business: Lowe's Home Improvement
Address: 1746 S Lynn Riggs Blvd, Claremore, OK 74019
Date: March 2, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 9:27 p.m.
https://oklahoma.gov/health/news---events/newsroom/2025/osdh-reports-additional-measles-cases.html
NBC News: Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital
"On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.
By that time, other new moms, newborn babies and their families at University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock had unknowingly been exposed to the virus, considered one of the most contagious in the world. ..."
h/t @exador23
YIKES!
On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.
By that time, other new moms, newborn babies and their families at University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock had unknowingly been exposed to the virus, considered one of the most contagious in the world.
Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts — implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as three days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system fight off infections. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-hospital-newborn-babies-exposed-rcna196519
In 1 decade, Texas went from having high vaccination rates to low rates
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/experts-vaccines-texas-measles
Ontario measles cases up to 372 (officially, more reported yesterday which undoubtedly not counted).
Per Ontario Public Health:
As of March 12, 2025, Ontario has reported a total of 372 measles cases (277 confirmed, 95
probable) associated with this outbreak occurring in 11 public health units (Table 1).
Things I learned about #measles, a thread:
I've never had or seen measles, I was born in the US after the measles vaccine but before antivaxxers went big, so I did some reading. In order of excitingness:
1) Measles is airborne, making this a great time to #WearAMask. IKR? looks like it would be a skin contact thing, but it's primarily airborne so it can linger in the air for hours after an infectious person exhales in a room. Familiar, no?
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"*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
"Kennedy is a quack, and a dangerous one. These ideas are only the tip of the iceberg. Regardless of what he says for public consumption, he is an anti-vaxxer. So are his 'experts.' They ignore the reality that any vaccine can only be effective with mass administration. Voluntary vaccination won’t cut it. He knows that.
This perversion of science will cost many thousands of lives, perhaps more."
~ Mark Mansour
"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?
#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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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
Big Picture Science for Mar 10, 2025: Preventable
Two infectious diseases that we’ve been able to prevent for a half-century are re-emerging. One of the most contagious viruses in the world, measles, is spreading in the United States. Anti-vax sentiment has driven vaccination rates down leading to outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico. The U.S. has also seen an uptick in cases of tuberculosis which has reclaimed its position the deadliest infection globally. The author John Green shares how his travels to Sierra Leone inspired his new book about TB. Through the story of a young patient, Henry, he highlights the health inequities that contribute to over a million and a half tuberculosis deaths annually despite the existence of a cure.
Guests:
* Adam Ratner – Pediatric infectious disease doctor in New York City, and author of Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
* John Green – Author of The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection
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#PublicHealth #health #measles #autism #rfkjr
~ Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health ~
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#PublicHealth #health #measles #autism #rfkjr
~ Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health ~
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#PublicHealth #health #measles #autism #rfkjr
~ Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health ~
