Shocking to read that two there was just one confirmed #measles case in #Scotland, but now we've had 24 in the last 5 months.
#health
#vaccination
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y5lwlxxp5o

This article made me angry for days when I was copyediting it. But I couldn’t talk about it because it hadn’t been published yet. Now I can. And it’s open-access so you can all read it.

Global health institutions allowed COVID-19 vaccinations to be locked up by patents. Moderna showed they could transfer their manufacturing methodologies to factories in places like South Africa. But those factories were forced to send doses to Europe and North America, while most Africans did not get COVID vaccinations.

There is a different model of medication manufacturing and distribution that is used with AUDS retrovirals for equitable distribution. It could have been used for COVID vaccines. But it wasn’t.And the same thing is now happening with Mpox.

#vaccination #COVID-19 #healthequity

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/article/law-and-global-governance-of-infectious-disease-access-to-medicines-on-covid19-aids-and-beyond/E97A7F55C78530DDB6010E062D3FE035

#Bulgaria expands free #HPV #vaccination to include boys, and older girls: Physicians welcomed the #vaccination program expansion, calling it ‘an extremely important step’ to tackle #HPV, the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world. https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/bulgaria-expands-free-hpv-vaccination-to-include-boys-and-older-girls/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it

#AeroVax does not need injection. It is inhaled. #BillGates #vaccination #mRNA

https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1918327430592319798

Second measles case confirmed in Travis County, health officials urge vaccination https://www.byteseu.com/955249/ #AustinPublicHealth #exposure #Health #immunity #measles #outbreak #symptoms #TravisCounty #vaccination

If you were wondering how the whole #Measles #Vaccination #antivax thing was going, it's not going well: 800 cases through April 17th, 3 deaths, 85 hospitalized (so *not* a good time) and something like 5% of inpatient cases get sepsis, 10% of inpatient cases gets acute kidney failure, 12% get pneumonia, 2-3% get encephalitis, not to mention immune damage. Not a good time at all.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7414a1.htm

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7188204/

"The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday. ...

'This is the largest outbreak in the U.S. since measles elimination was declared in 2000,' [Dr. Dan Filardo] said."

~ Teddy Rosenbluth and Apoorva Mandavilli

#Trump #RFKJr #measles #Texas #Oklahoma #NewMexico #vaccination #vaccines #CDC

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/health/measles-southwest-outbreak.html

Numb arm and fever, but better than getting the actual thing! #COVID19 #JN1 #vaccination

#WhoopingCough infections spike as #vaccination rates drop

The #US has reported more than 8,000 cases of whooping cough cases this year, more than double from this time last year. NBC News’ Sam Brock looks at the surge in this #contagious bacterial #infection that spreads through droplets.

“We’re seeing a return of #Dickensian #diseases” w/ the dissemination of anti-vaccine #ConspiracyTheories.

#PublicHealth #vaccines #HHS #RFKJr #Trump #Antivax #science #medicine
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/whooping-cough-infections-spike-as-vaccination-rates-drop-238123589553

Father and daughter contract measles in Serbia, fear of it spreading in Israel https://www.byteseu.com/946318/ #HealthMinistry #measles #Serbia #TelAviv #vaccination #Vaccines

Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. They have saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than 1 life every 10 seconds.

Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.

The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.

It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.

Read our latest editorial in #PLOSBiology: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism

#vaccines #vaccination #immunization #WorldImmunizationWeek #measles #outbreak #vaccinehesitancy

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143

Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. Vaccination has saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than six lives every minute of every year.

Our technical ability to develop vaccines has outpaced our social, political, and financial systems for ensuring their use. Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.

The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.

We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use.

It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.

Read our latest editorial in @PLOSBiology: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism

#vaccines #vaccination #immunization #WorldImmunizationWeek #measles #outbreak #vaccinehesitancy

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143

The nationwide #measles outbreak now stands at over 800 cases, but you don’t know that since RFK Jr is keeping a tight lid on the news.

The #orange areas in this map show where the #vaccination rate is under the 95% coverage target among kindergarteners. That’s a LOT of orange!