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#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
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Whooping cough infections spike as vaccination rates drop
The U.S. 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.NBC News
Vaccines work… and do not cause autism
Vaccines have saved millions of lives, yet their importance and safety is repeatedly in question. W e cannot let disinformation campaigns get in the way of global public health – it is not time to defund, but rather invest in these life-saving tools.journals.plos.org
A security official stands guard as a health worker administers a polio vaccination to a child. Pakistan has launched its second nationwide polio vaccination campaign, running from 21 to 27 April, aiming to vaccinate more than 45 million children, Quetta, #Pakistan
Photograph: Fayyaz Ahmed/EPA
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There already is a #MeaslesEpidemic in the #UnitedStatesOfAiling people... just saying...
s/: In a year or so, I'll ask #Kennedy, "How's that #GreatReplacementTheory thing going for ya?/s
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Most #pharmaceuticals are made at least in part in foreign nations#Trump has been saying for weeks that he plans to impose #tariffs specifically on pharmaceuticals….He has said those levies could be 25% or higher. Drugmakers still expect tariffs targeting them to be announced soon.
“The pharmaceutical companies are going to come roaring back, …to our country because if they don’t, they got a big tax to pay,” Trump said Wed.
#economy #medications #PersonalFinances
nytimes.com/2025/04/04/health/…Trump’s Next Tariffs Target Could be Foreign-Made Pharmaceuticals
President Trump wants to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States. Experts warn that tariffs could result in shortages and higher prices for generic drugs.Rebecca Robbins (The New York Times)
The largest #measles outbreak by far is in West #Texas, where the #disease is spreading quickly in remote, rural areas where the #vaccination rates are low. The outbreak has also spread across the boarder into #NewMexico, but the outbreak there is moving more slowly due to higher vaccination rates.
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Caroline Orr Bueno reports that ProPublica contacted the CDC to ask why it suppressed a report warning that the risk of measles is higher in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lower.
CDC responded,
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one." As Bueno notes, this echoes HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s own language about vaccination.
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No, vaccination is not a “personal choice”
The dangerous myth behind HHS Secretary Kennedy’s claim that the decision to get vaccinated is a personal one.Caroline Orr Bueno (Weaponized)
