#measles — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #measles, aggregated by home.social.
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Look at what these morons are saying:
"It's fine, we expect anyone who's got measles to stay home."
Yeah, well, go look up the word "asymptomatic" in the dictionary. And consider whether anyone can tell the first few hours of the common cold and measles apart.
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Antivaxxer folk music fans recently created a measles spreading event at the Urkult Festival in Sollefteå. Now antivaxxer Anthroposophists* are preparing another festival in Järna, despite knowing that the Urkult measles contagion is already there. 🙄
* A European offshoot of Theosophy based on the writings of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925).
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Standford model projects hundreds of thousands of deaths if current #vaccines policy persists - “The United States has a measles problem again, and it is the direct result of policy choices being made in Washington right now. The disease was declared eliminated here in 2000. It is now on the verge of returning to endemic status, and the federal government is actively weakening the tools that would stop it.”
https://dmnews.com/dmn-stanford-model-projects-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths-if-u-s-childhood-vaccines-lose-liability-shield/ #health #PublicHealth #InfectiousDiseases #measles #HHS #RFKjr #TrumpRegime #RepublicansDidThis
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"The rapidly rising US #measles outbreak grew to 2,777 cases today as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (#CDC) confirmed 211 new infections in its weekly update." But don't worry, #Trump and #RFKJr want to make getting your kid vaccinated more difficult and expensive. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cdc-adds-211-new-cases-accelerating-us-measles-outbreak
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#JV assures everyone that the #TreasurySecretary who helped #DisasterDon create a $40 TRILLION #Debt, has a plan to reduce our debt.
(Brought to you by the same WH that made #Measles great again after ignoring #Covid.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6042908-vance-bessent-national-debt-plan/
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Dear Friends, Another way to look at #vaccine #misinformation. The cost per case of #measles in the United States. About $60k per case. From CIDRAP: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/each-measles-case-2025-us-outbreak-cost-almost-60000-study-estimates-or-134-million-total
The cost of a single dose of MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine? About $3 to $10 depending on who is buying it. -
A #measles outbreak among young audience members at the #Urkult Festival in #Sollefteå has revealed the target demographic as overrepresented in antivaxxer families. Sweden in general has a solid herd immunity, but an event that gathers many unvaccinated people can create a temporary infection nexus.
Neo-folk, world music and Sara Parkman. Apparently that's antivaxxer music.
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Even As Disease Outbreaks Abound, American Vaccination Rates In Children Fall
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I'm not *actually* running a book on PA's measles outbreak.
But I am asking for guesses.
So far the 8th grader is best at estimating the bump in total cases per M/W/F dashboard update.
The senior thinks we'll stay shy of the +20 mark with today's 2pm update, but I think she's just trying to keep a positive mindset with the start of school upon us.
Sigh.
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"The good news is that most parents do get their kids the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which is 97% effective after two doses. Experts who spoke to CIDRAP News for this story say that if a fully vaccinated child has a normal immune system, parents shouldn't worry about their child catching measles at school—especially if that school has a relatively high vaccination rate. Outbreaks are extremely unlikely in communities where overall MMR coverage is 95%.
"But uptake is uneven."
The threat of more, expanded measles outbreaks looms with start of school
By Sarah Boden
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/threat-more-expanded-measles-outbreaks-looms-start-school -
Not good. My little corner of the globe has measles again. So much winning…
https://www.kmaland.com/news/taylor-county-confirms-measles-cases-in-southwest-iowa/article_065cb6cc-a151-4199-b4b5-0408d3fea5e3.html -
RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/117116751921431804
anybody spewing about “parents’ rights” is basically defending their right to abuse their children. they are people who see their children as property, that they get to treat however they want, and with no consequences.
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Measles cases in the United States have reached their highest annual level in more than 35 years.
So far in 2026:
• 2,566 confirmed cases
• 169 hospitalizations
• 93% of cases involved people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown
• Kindergarten MMR coverage has fallen to about 92.4%https://thenewsink.com/us-measles-cases-reach-their-highest-level/
#Measles #PublicHealth #HealthNews #Vaccination #MMR #TheNewsInk
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#ProPublica traces the trail of disinformation and incompetence that led to the most U.S. #measles cases in 35 years. And yes #RFKJr has a starring role.
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NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
---In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-cases-vaccines?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Health #PublicHealth #Measles #Medicine #Children #Vaccines #Science
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@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."
https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1344/
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#RFKJr's campaign to Make Infectious Diseases Great Again scores another win. https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/vaccines/
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Kindergarten #vaccine exemptions jump to another record high, CDC reports, as Trump and #RFKJr. seek overhaul of immunizations. The increase in the share of kindergartners with exemptions extends a years-long erosion of childhood #immunization rates, and comes as the U.S. battles its worst #measles resurgence in 35 years. #publichealth #medicine #pandemics #medicine #children #education #CDC
