A case of rubella confirmed in San Antonio at Legacy Traditional School. The US has been free of "endemic" (not related to foreign travel) rubella for over a decade.
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The R in MMR.
Oh, yes we'll be seeing this raising its ugly head, also.
During the last major rubella epidemic in the US from 1964-1965:
12.5 million people got rubella
11,000 pregnant women lost their babies
2,100 newborns died
20,000 babies were born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS)
Honestly someone could make a lot of money off a Darwin awards Maga edition. Not as funny as the original though since it's mostly totally preventable and unjustified deaths of children and marginalized people.
Why doesn't the governor work to educate Texans about the reliable benefits of measles vaccines? Surely, all the kids in his own family got vaccinated. Bums me out 🤷
Either way, I was raised outside Texas in a science believing household, so this isn't my issue. I feel for the kids affected by this, though. They don't deserve to die because their parents are morons that hate them.
Greg Abbott supports protecting religion and those that refuse to live in the 21st century over Public Health. It is how he gains consistent votes because so many dumbass uneducated religious people live in Texas.
Fella I've been to "third world countries" even lived for an extended period in a "developing country", I have to live in an expensive "progressive state" to even get free state medical insurance if I am poor enough gahh don't get me started on the joke that is "healthcare" in this entire country
I live in a “3rd world country” that has become the model for vaccination programs around the world. What Republicans want to do is make the US a medieval fiefdom.
Re this image - I'd assume hand foot and mouth disease. Doesn't look like typical rubella.
Shouldn't we use such images as an adjunct to public health messaging?
I just...this didn't need to happen. If people would stop believing everything they see on FB & stop believing vaccines cause Autism (They don't. But some people see Autism as a horrible affliction thanks to Autism Speaks)
When the parents that lost their child this week to the measles this week begin to say “we’d do anything to have our child back” it needs to include vaccination and they need to say so, publicly.
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https://www.cdc.gov/rubella/vaccine-impact/index.html
The R in MMR.
Oh, yes we'll be seeing this raising its ugly head, also.
During the last major rubella epidemic in the US from 1964-1965:
12.5 million people got rubella
11,000 pregnant women lost their babies
2,100 newborns died
20,000 babies were born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS)
Either way, I was raised outside Texas in a science believing household, so this isn't my issue. I feel for the kids affected by this, though. They don't deserve to die because their parents are morons that hate them.
https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/saude/noticia/2023-09/vaccination-brazil-sets-global-example-challenges-still-abound
Shouldn't we use such images as an adjunct to public health messaging?
Unfortunately 1/2 out country are a bunch of idiots that think the 10 guy is onto something because they heard the guy speak on the Joe Rogan Show
MAGA - making nearly eradicated fatal diseases great again