Go to your doctor and request updates titers for you and your family.
Update vaccines as needed
I got tested. Both measles and rubella antibodies well above levels consistent with immunity or past infection.
America's health czar sez measles, whooping cough, polio and smallpox are fun, so I ain't asking my doctor nuthin'!
Is there any betting sites taking action on what eradicated disease comes back and kills the most?
Quote from: Uncle Rico on March 04, 2025, 12:08:28 PMIs there any betting sites taking action on what eradicated disease comes back and kills the most?
Of course! The czar is actively trying to have measles kill kids, so that's where the early money is.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on March 04, 2025, 12:08:28 PMIs there any betting sites taking action on what eradicated disease comes back and kills the most?
ADA.org
Will marijuana or measles kill more kids this year?
Lmao
https://globalnews.ca/news/11062885/measles-parties-us-texas-health-experts/amp/
Quote from: Shaka Shart on March 05, 2025, 01:33:04 AMLmao
https://globalnews.ca/news/11062885/measles-parties-us-texas-health-experts/amp/
Fox News kills Americans
Measles parties are just resurrecting a boomer tradition. There were COVID parties a few years ago.
Anti-vaxxing balderdash leads to measles outbreak. Connect the dots.
Quote from: tower912 on March 05, 2025, 11:25:13 AMAnti-vaxxing balderdash leads to measles outbreak. Connect the dots.
ok sheep!
Quote from: Frenns Liquor Depot on March 04, 2025, 06:42:49 AMI got tested. Both measles and rubella antibodies well above levels consistent with immunity or past infection.
Curious .. what's the decision between .. just getting another MMR shot, or getting tested for antibodies?
(Maybe a second MMR shot isn't advisable?)
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 05, 2025, 03:39:48 PMCurious .. what's the decision between .. just getting another MMR shot, or getting tested for antibodies?
(Maybe a second MMR shot isn't advisable?)
Back in the autumn of 2023 before going to India I received a "booster". Travel Clinic recommended so I have lifetime immunity since it's been decades since my last one.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 05, 2025, 03:39:48 PMCurious .. what's the decision between .. just getting another MMR shot, or getting tested for antibodies?
(Maybe a second MMR shot isn't advisable?)
Well, always the potential for risk with any medical procedure or medication, including vaccine.
So, get titers first to determine need for the risk of vaccine
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 05, 2025, 03:39:48 PMCurious .. what's the decision between .. just getting another MMR shot, or getting tested for antibodies?
(Maybe a second MMR shot isn't advisable?)
I was wondering the same thing because my pcp said your good on these two but your mumps are low. So I get a shot of all three anyway...
Good times continue ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/health/measles-death-new-mexico.html?
An unvaccinated person who died in New Mexico has tested positive for measles, state health officials said on Thursday, possibly the second such fatality in a growing outbreak that began in West Texas.
Quote from: MU82 on March 06, 2025, 09:27:59 PMGood times continue ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/health/measles-death-new-mexico.html?
An unvaccinated person who died in New Mexico has tested positive for measles, state health officials said on Thursday, possibly the second such fatality in a growing outbreak that began in West Texas.
Good
Look, if America is going to continue to be the strongest country on earth, survival of the fittest has to come into play sometime right?
58 more opportunities for America to toughen up!
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4418621-cdc-reports-58-new-measles-cases-as-nationwide-count-surpasses-200
I'm sure there will be an outstanding response - probably by eliminating the CDC. If there is no CDC, there are no reports. And if there are no reports, there is no measles outbreak. Easy peasy!
Finally some good news
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/health/hhs-cdc-vaccines-autism/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2025-03-08T00:43:05
Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories: In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html?
Sigh. We live in batsh!t crazy times.
Quote from: MU82 on March 11, 2025, 02:48:14 PMKennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories: In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html?
Sigh. We live in batsh!t crazy times.
He went to the Marquette dental school?
With his family name? He can do better
Who wanted cancer vaccines? Not I
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/
Thoughts and prayers.
Looks like a second measles death in Texas. And the parents of the first one are standing by their decision not to have vaccinated.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/texas-measles-family-gaines-county-death/?
"We would absolutely not take the MMR. The measles wasn't that bad. They got over it pretty quickly," she said of her other four surviving children, who were treated with castor oil and inhaled steroids and recovered.
Quote from: MU82 on April 06, 2025, 10:10:32 AMLooks like a second measles death in Texas. And the parents of the first one are standing by their decision not to have vaccinated.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/texas-measles-family-gaines-county-death/?
"We would absolutely not take the MMR. The measles wasn't that bad. They got over it pretty quickly," she said of her other four surviving children, who were treated with castor oil and inhaled steroids and recovered.
Goodness gracious, only one died is acceptable?
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on April 06, 2025, 03:23:16 PMGoodness gracious, only one died is acceptable?
America is a fundamentally stupid country
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on April 06, 2025, 03:23:16 PMGoodness gracious, only one died is acceptable?
Some context (i don't think it's acceptable but helps explain their thought process) they are mennonites. Distrust of technology and a belief that death is gods will is central to their beliefs.
Quote from: TAMU, Knower of Ball on April 06, 2025, 04:56:23 PMSome context (i don't think it's acceptable but helps explain their thought process) they are mennonites. Distrust of technology and a belief that death is gods will is central to their beliefs.
I was not aware but at least that's a real "religious exemption" vs "I don't like vaccines just because".
If my religion believes in child sacrifice, am I allowed to torch my child in a bonfire in the village square? If not, why not? It's the lord's will!
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on April 06, 2025, 03:23:16 PMGoodness gracious, only one died is acceptable?
Well... They're doing fantastic by 1840's standards.
Quote from: MU82 on April 07, 2025, 01:09:23 AMIf my religion believes in child sacrifice, am I allowed to torch my child in a bonfire in the village square? If not, why not? It's the lord's will!
Religious exemptions to medical procedures are incredibly wild. Like I'm not allowed to beat the crap out of my child, regardless of what my religion states. But I can actively prevent medical doctors from saving my childs life with medicine because of ReLiGiOn.
You literally can argue that you can hurt your own children because if they die they'll be in a better place anyway - and some wingnut judges will agree with that argument.
Meanwhile, kids are getting sick from Vitamin A overdoses.
Because, you know, our worm-brained health czar promotes Vitamin A as a measles prevention and cure.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/04/05/multiple-texas-children-with-vitamin-a-toxicity-from-use-vs-measles/
More voodoo science from the "merit" hire who was brought in to "go wild on health."
Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US
https://apnews.com/article/measles-texas-vaccines-funding-cuts-5785985d6b74024b0502f6a2fc1576e2?
The measles outbreak in West Texas didn't happen just by chance.
The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say.
"We haven't had a strong immunization program that can really do a lot of boots-on-the-ground work for years," said Katherine Wells, the health director in Lubbock, a 90-minute drive from the outbreak's epicenter.
Immunization programs nationwide have been left brittle by years of stagnant funding by federal, state and local governments. In Texas and elsewhere, this helped set the stage for the measles outbreak and fueled its spread. Now cuts to federal funding threaten efforts to prevent more cases and outbreaks.
Quote from: MU82 on March 11, 2025, 02:48:14 PMKennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories: In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html?
Sigh. We live in batsh!t crazy times.
Meh, nothing that can't be solved with eight glasses of beef tallow and raw milk every day.
From ABC News:
Louisiana, Virginia and Missouri reported their first measles cases of 2025, bringing the total number of states with at least one case to 27. Officials say 96% of this year's cases are in the unvaccinated or those whose status is unknown.
Quote from: MU82 on April 21, 2025, 12:22:43 PMFrom ABC News:
Louisiana, Virginia and Missouri reported their first measles cases of 2025, bringing the total number of states with at least one case to 27. Officials say 96% of this year's cases are in the unvaccinated or those whose status is unknown.
The pope was vaccinated and now he's dead. Do the math
Quote from: Uncle Rico on April 21, 2025, 12:29:50 PMThe pope was vaccinated and now he's dead. Do the math
He didn't pray hard enough.
Quote from: cheebs09 on April 21, 2025, 05:48:23 PMHe didn't pray hard enough.
If praying worked, mubb would be better at basketball.
Measles shouldn't have all the fun. Whooping cough is also making a nice comeback!
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/whooping-cough-surges-vaccines-decline-us-rcna201853
So far this year, there have been 8,064 reported cases of whooping cough in the U.S., compared with 3,835 for the same time in 2024, according to the CDC. And there were more than four times as many whooping cough cases in the U.S. in 2024 compared with 2023.
According to the medical journal BMJ, if the current trend continues, the U.S. may be on course for the highest number of infections since vaccination was introduced in 1948.
Vaccine hesitancy in general is playing a major role in the increase.
"Vaccine hesitancy" is language for snowflakes. Anti-science idiots. Luddites.
Quote from: Skatastrophy on April 23, 2025, 05:36:35 PM"Vaccine hesitancy" is language for snowflakes. Anti-science idiots. Luddites.
Was Jesus vaccinated? No. End of story
Quote from: MU82 on April 23, 2025, 09:23:39 AMVaccine hesitancy in general is playing a major role in the increase.[/i]
I'm certainly not vaccine hesitant, but I'm not sure I would have thought about re-upping my tdap if a travel doctor hadn't recommended it before a trip to SE asia a few years ago.