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  1. A local coroner has said that an infant from the Amish community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has died of #measles
    County coroner Stephen Diamantoni shared the finding Friday after state officials last month announced that two people with measles infections had died.
    “The child contracted measles, and measles caused the death of the child,” Diamantoni said in an interview.
    washingtonpost.com/health/2026

  2. Pennsylvania infant’s death confirmed to have been caused by measles – Yahoo News Australia

    Pennsylvania infant’s death confirmed to have been caused by measles  Yahoo News Australia6-week-old Amish child died from measles, Lancaster…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Countycoroner #Healthcarenewsletter #JoshShapiro #LancasterCounty #Measles #Pennsylvania #raregeneticcondition #RobertF.KennedyJr. #StephenDiamantoni
    newsbeep.com/au/880872/

  3. Pennsylvania infant’s death confirmed to have been caused by measles – Yahoo News Australia

    Pennsylvania infant’s death confirmed to have been caused by measles  Yahoo News Australia6-week-old Amish child died from measles, Lancaster…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Countycoroner #Healthcarenewsletter #JoshShapiro #LancasterCounty #Measles #Pennsylvania #raregeneticcondition #RobertF.KennedyJr. #StephenDiamantoni
    newsbeep.com/au/880872/

  4. "Upcoming respiratory virus season: have we learned any lessons from Australia?

    New FDA-approved vaccines: updated COVID-19 vaccine and the first mRNA flu vaccine for the fall ..."

    youtube.com/watch?v=bNaWxx_TVVo

    #InfectiousDisease #Measles #Medicine

  5. One more #RFKJr lie destroyed:

    "Today in #Pennsylvania, Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni, MD, confirmed that the county’s second #measles infant death, which he initially called 'measles associated,' was caused by the highly contagious virus. The county is the site of a rapidly growing measles outbreak."

    cidrap.umn.edu/measles/lancast

  6. One more #RFKJr lie destroyed:

    "Today in #Pennsylvania, Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni, MD, confirmed that the county’s second #measles infant death, which he initially called 'measles associated,' was caused by the highly contagious virus. The county is the site of a rapidly growing measles outbreak."

    cidrap.umn.edu/measles/lancast

  7. One more lie destroyed:

    "Today in , Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni, MD, confirmed that the county’s second infant death, which he initially called 'measles associated,' was caused by the highly contagious virus. The county is the site of a rapidly growing measles outbreak."

    cidrap.umn.edu/measles/lancast

  8. One more #RFKJr lie destroyed:

    "Today in #Pennsylvania, Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni, MD, confirmed that the county’s second #measles infant death, which he initially called 'measles associated,' was caused by the highly contagious virus. The county is the site of a rapidly growing measles outbreak."

    cidrap.umn.edu/measles/lancast

  9. One more #RFKJr lie destroyed:

    "Today in #Pennsylvania, Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni, MD, confirmed that the county’s second #measles infant death, which he initially called 'measles associated,' was caused by the highly contagious virus. The county is the site of a rapidly growing measles outbreak."

    cidrap.umn.edu/measles/lancast

  10. The #CDC #measles page still doesn't list any measles-related deaths in 2026. But the coroner in Lancaster County, PA has reported that at least 1 of 2 recent deaths linked to measles was due to measles.
    The CDC site was updated today. Will another update follow? nytimes.com/2026/09/04/well/me

  11. CW: USPol, measles

    U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked his new CDC director to remove a reference to two Pennsylvania deaths from the agency’s online measles tally after he questioned whether the disease contributed to the ​fatalities.

    reuters.com/world/kennedy-aske

    #measles

  12. New CDC director erases 2 measles deaths from the record

    U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Erica Schwartz in 2026 The Centers for Disease Control and…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #CDC #covid-19 #deathcertificates #DebHoury #EricaSchwartz #excessdeaths #JoshShapiro #LancasterCounty #Measles #PaulOffit #Pennsylvania #publichealth #RobertF.KennedyJr. #socialism
    newsbeep.com/au/879328/

  13. "In general, the number of measles cases is believed to be vastly underreported, in part because some communities experiencing the most severe outbreaks have less contact with public health agencies."
    cidrap.umn.edu/measles/conflic

    #measles #PublicHealth #epidemiology

  14. @luckytran

    it's also important to address the maiming

    people talk about mortality rates, but then there's a whole other group of children that become permanently debilitated

    a big example with #measles:

    permanent hearing loss

    and children often develop measles around the same age as speech acquisition, so it harms their intellectual and social development as well

    children harmed because their parents are pridefully ignorant

    #vaccinate your damn kids!

    nardelliaudiologists.com/heari

    #vaccination

  15. @jik One of my sibs is now as antivax as RFK thanks to #antivax propaganda that got very slick in 2020. The book How Fascism Works talks about how fash propaganda fractures our previously shared reality, which makes it easier for fascists to take & keep power.

    In a recent #TWIV episode, the host shared a story from the recent American Society for Virology conference: "SSPE. This is a late sequalae to #measles. It is uniformly fatal. It is rare. But. These kids who had measles, cuz they weren't vaccinated, they get this disease, neurological degeneration and they all die. & when they're sick, the parents call my host, Roberto Cattaneo, and say, 'What can I do? The doctors tell me there's nothing to do. Can we #vaccinate him now?' Parents don't understand. This is rare but you will lose your child if he gets SSPE. So get vaccinated. . . . [The incidence is] 1 in [10,000 but] if the child gets it in the first year of life, the incidence is 1 in 600."
    microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1344/
    #ThisWeekInVirology

  16. RE: mastodon.social/@luckytran/117

    Saúde nos EUA:
    - surto recorde de parasita causador de diarreia
    - recall de 20 milhões de ovos com salmonela
    - pior qualidade do ar do mundo devido a incêndios florestais
    - ONU alerta para risco de ressurgimento do HIV no mundo devido a cortes de verbas
    - maior número de casos de sarampo em 35 anos

    Sem mencionar que o país não tem saúde pública gratuita.

    #antivax #farright #saude #diarreia #salmonela #wildfires #sarampo #HIV #EUA #USA #health #measles #salmonella #DrFauci

  17. RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

    O que a falta de vacinação representa no Texas, EUA. Enquanto nós, do sul global, já fazia tempo que tínhamos superado o sarampo - que voltou em 2018-2022, durante o desgoverno Bolsonaro, mas foi eliminado em 2023, no governo Lula.
    agenciagov.ebc.com.br/noticias
    #sarampo #measles

  18. @justyourluck
    You would prefer not to be breathed on.

    #Hanta virus is, I think, not very infectious, comparted to #Measles #Chickenpox #Influenza #COVID *

    In a previous emergency I was dubious about #vapes , as they emit a cloud of cool droplets from the lungs which goes a long way.

    How far can someone blow a smoke ring, except without smoke - a vortex ring?

  19. As professionals who have had to reason and analyze antivax behavior, the comment that always stayed with me is that "People will remain willfully ignorant until it affects them directly".
    --
    As Measles Takes Toll on Kids, Anti-Vaxxers Have Change of Heart

    For some vaccine-hesitant parents...who’ve been goaded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., watching an outbreak rip through their state has made the deadly realities of the disease more concrete.

    They’re starting to question their own deeply held beliefs and the conspiracy theories that fueled them. And in several measles hotspots, enough of them are quietly changing their minds on the MMR shot that it’s slowing down the outbreaks.

    msn.com/en-us/money/other/as-m
    --
    I wish I could say I believe it is a turning point, but our recent history suggests that ignorance will keep outpacing facts unless laws are made and enforced to protect everyone.

    #AntiVax #Measles #Infectiousdiseases #GetVaccinated #WearAMask #PublicHealth

  20. As professionals who have had to reason and analyze antivax behavior, the comment that always stayed with me is that "People will remain willfully ignorant until it affects them directly".
    --
    As Measles Takes Toll on Kids, Anti-Vaxxers Have Change of Heart

    For some vaccine-hesitant parents...who’ve been goaded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., watching an outbreak rip through their state has made the deadly realities of the disease more concrete.

    They’re starting to question their own deeply held beliefs and the conspiracy theories that fueled them. And in several measles hotspots, enough of them are quietly changing their minds on the MMR shot that it’s slowing down the outbreaks.

    msn.com/en-us/money/other/as-m
    --
    I wish I could say I believe it is a turning point, but our recent history suggests that ignorance will keep outpacing facts unless laws are made and enforced to protect everyone.

    #AntiVax #Measles #Infectiousdiseases #GetVaccinated #WearAMask #PublicHealth

  21. As professionals who have had to reason and analyze antivax behavior, the comment that always stayed with me is that "People will remain willfully ignorant until it affects them directly".
    --
    As Measles Takes Toll on Kids, Anti-Vaxxers Have Change of Heart

    For some vaccine-hesitant parents...who’ve been goaded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., watching an outbreak rip through their state has made the deadly realities of the disease more concrete.

    They’re starting to question their own deeply held beliefs and the conspiracy theories that fueled them. And in several measles hotspots, enough of them are quietly changing their minds on the MMR shot that it’s slowing down the outbreaks.

    msn.com/en-us/money/other/as-m
    --
    I wish I could say I believe it is a turning point, but our recent history suggests that ignorance will keep outpacing facts unless laws are made and enforced to protect everyone.

    #AntiVax #Measles #Infectiousdiseases #GetVaccinated #WearAMask #PublicHealth