#Congress created the #Vaccines for #Children program in 1993 after a US #measles #epidemic had killed dozens of children a few years earlier. The #CDC found
that >50% of the children who got measles then were unvaccinated. The #cost of the #immunization was a primary reason families had skipped the shot even though they were seeing doctors regularly….

"*On March 9, a case was confirmed in the Maryland/metro D.C. area.

Measles is more contagious than many of the diseases we take far more seriously in the media and halls of Congress.

Measles infection can result in severe and sometimes permanent complications including pneumonia, lung damage, brain damage, and death."

#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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"According to the Centers for Disease Control, as of March 6, 2025, a total of 222 measles cases have been reported by twelve U.S. jurisdictions in just the first 65 days of 2025.

The current outbreaks are in:

Alaska

California

Florida

Georgia

Kentucky

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York City

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Texas

Washington state"

~ Amelia Mavis Christnot

#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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https://auntiemavis.substack.com/p/measles-dangers-immunity-vaccination-testing

"He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved 'almost miraculous and instantaneous' recoveries with steroids or antibiotics."

Note that shifting blame for contracting measles to lack of good diet and exercise blames victims in a particularly nasty way that makes invidious insinuations about social class and income. RFKJr. and his kind are models of good health?

#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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"[RFKJr] issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research. He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research."

~ Teddy Rosenbluth

#RFKJr #vaccines #measles #epidemic #disinformation #quackery
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

At the #CDC, 2 prestigious training programs were gutted: one that embeds recent #PublicHealth grads in local #health depts & another to cultivate the next generation of PhD lab scientists. But the agency’s #Epidemic #Intelligence Service—the “disease detectives” who track #outbreaks around the world—has apparently been spared, perhaps because of an uproar among alumni after a majority of its members were told on Fri that they would be let go.

@luckytran

That is fckng disgusting. Allowing coding geeks, under a pseudo-intellectual, to make decisions about highly specialised areas such as finance and health, 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 lead to impeachment. Then again, our elected officials override expert opinions all of the time for their own benefit and that of their donors, don't they?

— Similar arguments have been used against the #LGBTQ+ #community, suggesting an "#epidemic" or "#socialcontagion." In reality, as #societal #stigma targeting #marginalizedgroups eases, people feel freer to #express their #authenticselves without #fear or #judgment, as clearly shown in the chart below.