Measles

[jesmu84]

We are regressing as a country

[MU82]

Florida choosing to cull the science-denying herd. If kids die ... well, we all are going to die.

[cheebs09]

One way to lower school shooting casualties I guess.

[RJax55]

Looking forward to Dgies post extolling how great Florida is.

[Uncle Rico]

One way to lower school shooting casualties I guess.

If more kids die from preventable disease, the good news is, they'll get to be with their best friend, Jesus!

[Pakuni]

We are regressing as a country

We'll be replacing vaccines with Brawndo.

[Uncle Rico]

We are regressing as a country

When you have idiots like Greg Gutfeld leading the way, we shouldn't be surprised how stupid the average American is:

https://bsky.app/profile/mmfa.bsky.social/post/3ly2ffz5wim2b

[tower912]

Years of gutting public education has had the inevitable result of creating an idiocracy.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

When you have idiots like Greg Gutfeld leading the way, we shouldn't be surprised how stupid the average American is:

https://bsky.app/profile/mmfa.bsky.social/post/3ly2ffz5wim2b

OMG, the comments afterwards are priceless.

[MU82]

From Yahoo News:

The CDC updated its website yesterday to suggest a link between vaccines and autism and cast doubt on decades of research showing that vaccines are safe. "'Vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim," it now reads.

What we know: Autism is a developmental disability that causes various symptoms. Research shows that genetics, as well as environmental factors — like prenatal exposure to pollution or parental age — may play a role, but not vaccines. The 1998 study that linked child vaccines to autism was retracted in 2010. [CBS News]

Response: The move sparked criticism from doctors and public health officials. Philip Huang, director of the Dallas County health department, said the federal government's messaging "is not science-based," while some of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s supporters hailed the change. [USA Today]

[Uncle Rico]

From Yahoo News:

The CDC updated its website yesterday to suggest a link between vaccines and autism and cast doubt on decades of research showing that vaccines are safe. "'Vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim," it now reads.

What we know: Autism is a developmental disability that causes various symptoms. Research shows that genetics, as well as environmental factors — like prenatal exposure to pollution or parental age — may play a role, but not vaccines. The 1998 study that linked child vaccines to autism was retracted in 2010. [CBS News]

Response: The move sparked criticism from doctors and public health officials. Philip Huang, director of the Dallas County health department, said the federal government's messaging "is not science-based," while some of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s supporters hailed the change. [USA Today]

Our government is actively trying to kill Americans

[MU82]

Idiocracy.

[cheebs09]

If you thought Covid was fun, let's try and bring back some diseases!!!

[The Sultan]

Our government is actively trying to kill Americans

Can you blame them? Have you met Americans?

[MU82]

Just across the border from my old stomping grounds ...

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is "accelerating" with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials said Wednesday.

As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases had been reported in what's known as upstate South Carolina — an area in the northwest of the state that includes Greenville and Spartanburg.

"We are faced with ongoing transmission that we anticipate will go on for many more weeks," Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist for the South Carolina Department of Public Health, said during a news briefing Wednesday.

Twenty-seven of those cases have been reported since Friday. "That is a significant increase in our cases in a short period of time," Bell said. She attributed the spike in part to holiday travel and get-togethers, as well as low vaccination rates.

According to NBC News data, the K-12 vaccination rate for measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) in Spartanburg County was 90% for the 2024-25 school year, below the 95% level doctors say is needed to protect against an outbreak. In neighboring Greenville County, the MMR vaccination rate was 90.5%.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-accelerating-220728201.html?

[MU82]

Roughly half of counties had kindergarten vaccination rates high enough to prevent measles outbreaks. Now, only about a quarter have herd immunity.

The decline reveals lasting consequences of a backlash against public health efforts during the pandemic, which radicalized many against vaccine mandates.

(From the Washington Post)

[MU82]

Getting "immunized" for measles the hard way ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/measles-outbreak-texas-timmons.html?

After the coughing fits, the head-to-toe body aches, the chest pains that felt similar to a heart attack, the relentless nausea, the fevers of 105, the 911 calls, the sleepless hospital nights and then the long weeks of what doctors termed "healing" — unexplained rashes, chronic fatigue, brain fog, more coughing fits — Kiley Timmons and his family eventually made a full recovery from the measles. The West Texas family was at the heart of the biggest outbreak in a generation last spring, with five family members hospitalized for their symptoms, including four unvaccinated children who were treated in a Lubbock hospital during the same week.

Now the twin boys are back to playing on the high school baseball team. The youngest daughter, 9, is performing in "The Nutcracker." The entire family has returned to the rhythms of school and church, where they often see the controversial doctor who helped treat them, Ben Edwards, a prominent vaccine skeptic who aligned himself during the outbreak with Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.

Edwards treated hundreds of children for measles with cod liver oil and vitamin A at a makeshift clinic over the last year, seeing some patients while he was infected himself. He was recently honored for his work by an anti-vaccine advocacy group, the Children's Health Defense, which named Edwards its Defender of the Year.

"It's been a pretty happy ending to a very scary story," said Carrollyn Timmons, who was vaccinated against the measles as a child and stayed healthy while her husband and four children fell sick. "It took everyone a few months to start feeling like themselves again, but I finally feel confident saying it's behind us."