Do not travel to the USA.
Reason number 24.
Why you should not travel to the USA.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91330052/u-s-measles-outbreak-now-reached-11th-state
"RFK Jr. fired another 200 employees of the National Institutes of Health. 50 of them worked at the National Cancer Institute. The move follows the dismissal of about 10,000 employees last month. One fired employee to CBS: 'We thought the worst was behind us, and we were transitioning into this new phase, and the rug was just pulled out from underneath us.'"
~ Ron Filipkowski
#measles #Trump #RFKJr #science #research #cancer
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-125-5625
"There are almost 950 known cases in the United States, most of them in Texas. Reuters reports that is an alarming “180% increase over the 285 cases reported in all of 2024 - the second highest annual U.S. case count in 25 years.” Three people have died, two of them children. These are the first measles deaths in the U.S. in over a decade. All three of the victims were unvaccinated."
~ Jennifer Schulze
#measles #Trump #RFKJr #vaccines
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-measles
World may be ‘post-#herdimmunity’ to #measles, top #US #scientist says
As infections pummel communities in the US, Mexico and Canada, fear of ‘the most contagious human #disease’ grows
Risk of measles is considered high in the #Americas, and has grown 11-fold compared with 2024.
“Measles – because it is the most #contagious of the #vaccine-preventable #diseases, the most contagious human disease really – it is the first to come back.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/03/measles-post-herd-immunity
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) becomes the latest casualty of Trump regime
They were close to finalizing guidelines for airborne infection control in hospitals, including the use of N95 masks.
Hospital acquired COVID has a 10% mortality rate. We’re seeing the worst measles outbreak in a decade. Drug resistant fungus is on the rise.
Cutting the people whose sole job was to reduce hospital acquired infections will just lead to more death, disability and healthcare worker attrition.
This isn’t how you eliminate the chronic disease epidemic, it’s how you eliminate the chronically ill.
Across America, the confirmed measles case count is 935, more than triple the amount seen in the entirety of 2024.
The #measles #crisis in this country is clearly growing, with North Dakota one of the newest states hit.
North Dakota is, in fact, now battling an official outbreak — defined as three or more cases
https://bsky.app/profile/wordswithsteph.bsky.social/post/3lok3hjhihc2q
A familiar vaccine-driven decrease in harmful measles-inflicted disease (encephalitis).
It should blow every parent's mind that leaders would support making this graph a mirror image, fuelling #measles, its associated opportunistic infection-driven harms and the immune memory damage the virus causes.
From a 1977 paper, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022347677807555
As #measles outbreaks grow, #Trump cuts hinder vaccination efforts https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/05/05/as-measles-outbreaks-grow-trump-cuts-hinder-vaccination-efforts/ #Musk #MakeAmericaSickAgain
"While underlying medical conditions certainly affect people’s health, Mole notes that 'the evidence against terrain theory is obvious and all around us.' But if you think germs are less important than overall health, things like the pasteurization of milk to kill E. coli, salmonella, and Listeria bacteria—which Kennedy opposes—are unnecessary."
"This would explain Kennedy’s assertion—refuted by doctors—that the children who died of measles were malnourished. As medical blogger Kristen Panthagani, MD/PhD, explains: Kennedy’s way of thinking is 'the belief that infections don't pose a risk to healthy people who have optimized their immune system.'”
"While Kennedy appears to believe germs exist, he also claims to believe in the older theory of disease called 'miasma theory,' although as [Beth] Mole points out, he misunderstands that theory—the idea that diseases are caused by poisonous vapors—and really appears to believe in another old idea: 'terrain theory.' Terrain theory maintains that diseases are signs that the internal 'terrain' of the body is out of whack."
"In 2025, the top health official in the United States, a man without degrees in either medicine or public health, appears to be rejecting germ theory and reshaping the nation’s medical system around his own dedication to a theory that was outdated well over a century ago."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"How can we get healthier without healthcare? Kennedy repeatedly puts the onus of disease on diet and lifestyle while minimizing the role of social services and doctors. ...
Blaming the weak for their own sickness is one half of the coin of soft eugenics. The other is encouraging the perceived strong to procreate more, which brings us to Elon Musk."
#Trump #RFKJr #Musk #eugenics #healthcare #economy #measles #Covid
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"When Kennedy claims that autism is worse than Covid-19 because the latter only kills 'old people' and 'metabolically healthy' people don’t die from it, or when a Maha associate claims that measles is 'an essential rite of passage, immunologically', you’re hearing the language of soft eugenics. Don’t let vaccines protect everyone, instead let the infirm and weak be culled so that the strong will survive and perpetuate."
#Trump #RFKJr #Musk #eugenics #healthcare #economy #measles #Covid
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Were measles showing up in the US before Andrew Tate was allowed to come back?
“Of the European cases, which reportedly hit 35,212 for 2024, 87% were reported in Romania. The ECDC said the dip in vaccine rates has impacted the recent spike in measles, with only three countries, Hungary, Malta and Portugal, having coverage of 95% or more for both doses of the measles vaccine.”
World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to #measles, top US scientist says : r/ContagionCuriosity https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagionCuriosity/comments/1ke3b5c/world_may_be_postherd_immunity_to_measles_top_us/
Step up #measles #vaccinations, say doctors as outbreaks accelerate in #Ontario, #Alberta https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/measles-vaccination-coverage-1.7525234
also wrt vaccinations, boomers (born 1946-1964) might feel safe because we were all vaccinated as a matter of course, but it’s still worth getting tested for anti-bodies, as sometimes our protection has diminished over time.
"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will ask the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop new guidance for treating measles with drugs and vitamins, an HHS spokesperson said."
There isn't great treatment. Vaccination is the best way to prevent measles.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cdc-measles-treatment-guidance/
Recent visitors to a #Burlington, Ont., health centre and Milton, Ont., clinic may have been exposed to #measles, Halton health officials say. https://buff.ly/TQrb48C
