US news | The Guardian<p>Texas reports large leap in measles cases bringing total to 481 across 19 counties <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/texas-measles-spread" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/04/texas-measles-spread</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/UShealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UShealthcare</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a></p>
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Trillium Jones Get MMR vax 🫂<p>Do adults need a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> booster? An epidemiologist explains who is immune</p><p>"There are two special circumstances where the previous recommendations may not hold.</p><p>First, if you were vaccinated between 1963 and 1967, one of the measles vaccines available at the time consisted of just proteins from the virus rather than a live, weakened version of it. Researchers soon realized this inactivated, or “killed,” vaccine was less effective and didn’t provide long-term immunity. Unless you know for certain you received the live vaccine, physicians and public health experts recommend that people vaccinated during those years get one dose of the live vaccine at some point.</p><p>Second, if you fall into a high-risk group – for example, if you are a health care provider, are traveling internationally or attending college, physicians and public health experts generally recommend getting a second dose if you have only had one."</p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/do-adults-need-a-measles-booster-an-epidemiologist-explains-who-is-immune" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/newshour/health/do-adu</span><span class="invisible">lts-need-a-measles-booster-an-epidemiologist-explains-who-is-immune</span></a></p>
Dwight Williams (💉 x9) + 😷,<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@WTL" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WTL</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@ABC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ABC</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mindly.social/@TAV" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TAV</span></a></span> Okay, I think I'm good on that blood donation point re: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a>. I got my booster 2-3 months ago.</p>
Lionel <p>Typhus? Cool. Cool.
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<a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23CDC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDC</a> Measles Outbreak Update, <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23MMR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MMR</a> Vaccine News, <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Typhus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Typhus</a> Disease, and the End of <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Flu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Flu</a> Season 2025
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LyleDAL<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> Measles Outbreak Update, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> Vaccine News, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Typhus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typhus</span></a> Disease, and the End of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Flu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flu</span></a> Season 2025</p><p>"AMA's Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, discusses murine typhus and measles outbreaks in the U.S., the latest measles vaccination rates, as well as current COVID-19 and seasonal flu going around. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AmericanMedicalAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanMedicalAssociation</span></a> CXO Todd Unger hosts."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-jMNALtDI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=eU-jMNALtD</span><span class="invisible">I</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AMA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccines</span></a></p>
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin<p>Has nobody seen <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppenheimer</span></a>? The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apollo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo</span></a> mission?<br>Has no one seen, with century old technology, what we accomplished against diseases like TB, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polio</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/malaria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>malaria</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a>?<br>What we lack is courage, imagination, and daring.<br>Fuck these retrogrades. Fuck them. Fuck their input or opinions.</p>
nomotime<p>From the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Yale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yale</span></a> School of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> (via BlueSky)</p><p>Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> Two doses of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccine</span></a> are 97% effective against measles. </p><p>If you're wondering if you should get (re)vaccinated against measles, here is a helpful chart.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a></p>
ferricoxide<p><span>Git the </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/MMR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MMR</a><span> booster, yesterday. Arms a little sore, this morning. I </span><i><span>mufht</span></i><span> be a little fatigued. But, other than that, not feeling too bad.<br><br>I'll have to get another titer to see if it "took", though.</span></p>
US news | The Guardian<p>Nearly 500 confirmed cases of measles across 19 US states, says CDC <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/measles-cases-us-cdc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/28/measles-cases-us-cdc</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/UShealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UShealthcare</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, as someone who used to work for a New Age newspaper back in the late 90's / early 2000's, I've seen my share of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewAgeQuackery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewAgeQuackery</span></a>. And as someone who has looked at studies about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VitaminA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VitaminA</span></a> and the immune system, and who has been tested for low levels and brought them up, and has seen the results firsthand... All I can say is VITAMIN A IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR AN <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> SHOT! WTF! Especially with breakthrough cases! Get your shots updated! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MeaslesAreNoJoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MeaslesAreNoJoke</span></a> and can cause real damage!</p>
jetsilver<p>Hey Denton (and DFW folks), heads up about our school vaccination rates. </p><p>I had assumed that being in a more urban area generally meant that we'd be doing better with this. We're not. There isn't a single North Texas county that has a kindergarten vax rate high enough for herd immunity.</p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DFW</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Dallas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dallas</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Denton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denton</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/NorthTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthTX</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/measles-texas-vaccine-vaccination-rates-schools-dfw-fort-worth-dallas/287-1c321c7d-d1ff-4326-ae9b-eec5c9100699" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wfaa.com/article/news/health/m</span><span class="invisible">easles-texas-vaccine-vaccination-rates-schools-dfw-fort-worth-dallas/287-1c321c7d-d1ff-4326-ae9b-eec5c9100699</span></a></p>
Expat Repeat<p>Local public health says that they are booked solid through May for <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> boosters. Not sure if I should be happy that people are taking this seriously and are seeking immunisation, or if I should be worried that it will be that long of a wait for me. <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> save lives. If only the anti-vax madness hadn't spread so far. And of course still nobody around here masks.... 😩</p>
Jerry on Mastodon<p>The stupidity is stunning</p><p>The mother who lost her 5-year-old to <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> says that measles isn't that bad, and she still recommends against the vaccine. </p><p><a href="https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/23/anti-vax-parents-say-measles-wasnt-bad-daughter-dies-outbreak-22775494/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">metro.co.uk/2025/03/23/anti-va</span><span class="invisible">x-parents-say-measles-wasnt-bad-daughter-dies-outbreak-22775494/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/mmr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mmr</span></a></p>
US news | The Guardian<p>‘The goal is to disassemble public health’: experts warn against US turn to vaccine skepticism <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/vaccine-disinformation-trump-measles-covid" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/24/vaccine-disinformation-trump-measles-covid</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Vaccinesandimmunisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccinesandimmunisation</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Trumpadministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpadministration</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Infectiousdiseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infectiousdiseases</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/RobertFKennedyJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertFKennedyJr</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Highereducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Highereducation</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Coronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coronavirus</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/RonDeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RonDeSantis</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Hospitals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hospitals</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a></p>
US news | The Guardian<p>More US states report measles cases amid vaccine misinformation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/measles-spread-vaccine-misinformation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/23/measles-spread-vaccine-misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Vaccinesandimmunisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccinesandimmunisation</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Infectiousdiseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infectiousdiseases</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Washingtonstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Washingtonstate</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/RhodeIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RhodeIsland</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/NewJersey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewJersey</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maryland</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Kentucky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kentucky</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a></p>
Science | The Guardian<p>More US states report measles cases amid vaccine misinformation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/measles-spread-vaccine-misinformation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/23/measles-spread-vaccine-misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Vaccinesandimmunisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccinesandimmunisation</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Infectiousdiseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infectiousdiseases</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Washingtonstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Washingtonstate</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/RhodeIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RhodeIsland</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/NewJersey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewJersey</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maryland</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Kentucky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kentucky</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a></p>
MFennVT<p>Husband and I acquired our <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> boosters this morning. So far, for both of us, the only reaction has been feeling extra tired. Hopefully, that stays the case.</p>
Ricardo Harvin<p>While I still can, here in the U.S., I got another COVID booster along with Tdap and updated (for me) MMR vaccines.</p><p>That's 10 COVID shots for me in 4 years. It's been about 10 years since I had a tetanus shot, I think, and I'm getting scratched and bitten by cats at the shelter where I volunteer, and apparently the original Measles vaccine I got in 1963 has dubious long-term effectiveness.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tdap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tdap</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SARSCoV2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SARSCoV2</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Measles</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tetanus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tetanus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Diptheria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diptheria</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pertussis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pertussis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WhoopingCough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoopingCough</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pfizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pfizer</span></a></p>
Jenny<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/@HelenBranswell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>HelenBranswell</span></a></span> This has been so thoroughly THOROUGHLY debunked for YEARS now, it drives me crazy that people are still spreading this harmful disinformation. For anyone without a NYT subscription, Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE) recently wrote an informative post about it too.</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/vaccines-dont-cause-autism-so-what" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/yourloca</span><span class="invisible">lepidemiologist/p/vaccines-dont-cause-autism-so-what</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/YourLocalEpidemiologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YourLocalEpidemiologist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MMR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>A Short History of Measles and Vaccine Hesitancy</p><p>The graphs accompanying this article show that vaccination rates have risen over the last ten years in California, while declining in most of the rest of the country. The California increase in vax rates correlates with the aftermath of the 2014 Disneyland Measles Outbreak, which caused over 300 measles infections, mostly in Southern California and Canada, and overwhelmingly among unvaccinated individuals. It also sparked debate on vaccine hesitancy and led to California Senate Bill 277, which revoked the “personal belief” exemption, thus tightening the rules around vaccination requirements for K12 public school children by eliminating nonmedical exemptions.</p><p>SB 277 was co-authored by Senators Richard Pan (who was a physician) and Ben Allen. At the time, some California public schools had vaccination rates below 60%, even though a 95% rate is required for Community Immunity (herd immunity) for many diseases, including measles. Though the bill was supported by the California Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the PTA and California Children’s Hospital Association, there was loud and aggressive opposition by a tiny number of anti-vax activists, who tried (but failed) to get Pan recalled. They also called him a Nazi and made death threats against both him and Allen.</p><p>It takes a serious level of fear and anger to want to kill someone. So, what was driving this fear and anger?</p><p>A major factor is the false belief that vaccines cause autism. For new parents, autism can be a terrifying diagnosis. So, if there is any evidence that something specifically is causing autism, it makes perfect sense to try and avoid it. And if parents believed that the state was imposing an autism-causing drug on their children, it is not hard to see why they’d associate the law-makers with Nazis, and the drug with Zyklon B. To a rational, educated person who understands that the risks associated with vaccines are actually miniscule compared with the risks associated with the diseases they protect against, this kind of thinking by anti-vaxxers probably seems absurd, or ignorant. However, it’s not just an issue of education versus ignorance. Consider that Marin County, California, one of the nation’s most affluent and highly educated communities, once had one of the lowest vaccination rates in the state.</p><p>One reason people have associated vaccines with autism stems from the common mistake of conflating causation with correlation. Autism is often diagnosed in children around the age of two, which is around the same age that many childhood vaccinations are given. Many parents of autistic children got their diagnoses within a year or so of their children’s vaccinations and they made the assumption that the two were connected when, in actuality, it was a coincidence. Dozens of peer-reviewed studies have confirmed that there is no increased risk of autism due to vaccinations.</p><p>The belief that vaccines caused autism really took off in the late 1990s. After British physician Andrew Wakefield published his fraudulent 1998 Lancet article, falsely showing a link between the MMR (Measle, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine and autism, there was a sharp decline in vaccination uptake. However, other researchers were unable to replicate Wakefield’s results (something that should be easy to do if the study was valid). Additionally, journalist Brian Deer discovered that Wakefield had a significant conflict of interest because he stood to earn up to $43 million per year selling test kits. And the British General Medical Council (GMC) later found that Wakefield was guilty of mistreating developmentally delayed children. </p><p>When Wakefield’s study was discovered to be fraudulent, Lancet retracted his paper and the GMC revoked his medical license. In 2004, he moved to the U.S., where he continued to push his bogus anti-vaccination claims, directing the pseudoscience propaganda film “Vaxed.” Robert De Niro, whose son is on the autism spectrum, removed the film from the Tribeca Film Festival. However, proponents of the vaccines-cause-autism hypothesis, including U.S. Health & Human Services boss Robert F. Kennedy Jr., continue to push this lie. For a while, they tried to blame thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative that was used in vaccines since the 1930s. However, in 1999, thimerosal was pulled from vaccines as a precautionary measure. And, guess what: autism rates continued to climb anyway. </p><p>Today’s measles outbreak is currently close to 300 cases, primarily in Texas and New Mexico, but with cases spreading to Oklahoma and other states. And nearly every one of those cases is in an unvaccinated patient. There have also been two deaths, one in Texas and one in New Mexico. However, in the U.S., measles mortality is general around 1-2 deaths per 1,000 cases. Because measles, unlike Covid and Influenza, does not mutate rapidly, this is unlikely due to the evolution of a more virulent strain. Rather, the nearly 300 documented cases today are likely a gross undercount. The actual number may be closer to 500 or even 1,000. And we may not even be at the peak yet, particularly considering how low the vaccination rates currently are.</p><p>Back in 2015, when the California’s vaccination rates were lower, and its legislature was considering SB 277, one of the public faces of the debate was a 6-year-old Marin County boy with leukemia, named Rhett Krawitt. His parents argued that it was not safe for him to attend school with unvaccinated children, since he was immune-compromised and at increased risk of contracting a deadly disease from them. At the time, 20% of Marin’s students had opted out of the required vaccinations. Rhett, himself, spoke to the school board, as well as the state legislature, contributing to Marin County’s shift from being one of the lowest vaccinated counties in California, to one of the highest.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mmr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mmr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publichealth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antivax</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>texas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>california</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rfkjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rfkjr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a></p>
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