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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.
#health #PublicHealth #vaccines #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #HHS #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics
The US now has >600 #measles cases in 22 states, acc/to the #CDC [& who knows if that’s being accurately reported]. That includes 481 cases in #Texas alone. The country has now reported >2X the number of measles cases this year than were reported in all of 2024.
The CDC says there have been 6 measles #outbreaks so far this year.
#health #PublicHealth #vaccines #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #HHS #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics
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#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."Samantha Cole (404 Media)
OFFS! These aren’t toys that you break/reassemble! They’re professionals, PEOPLE, whose lives are disrupted as Trump & his thugs disrupt the health & wellbeing of the whole world!
"Personnel that should not have been cut, were cut. We're reinstating them. And that was always the plan. Part of the DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we'll make mistakes”: #RFKJr
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RFK Jr. says 20% of health agency layoffs could be mistakes
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the CDC's lead poisoning program will be reinstated.Alexander Tin (CBS News)
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.
#measles #vaccines #vaccination #RFKJr #CDC
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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)
"If you’ve ever used eye drops that didn’t blind you, thank Dr. Timothy J. Pohlhaus. As of yesterday, he’s gone." #RFKJr is well on the way to being the deadliest serial killer in American history.
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Drugmakers sink after key #FDA official ousted as #Trump plans *#health* overhaul
Shares of US drugmakers fell on Monday after reports that the FDA's top #vaccine official, Peter Marks, had been forced to resign, the most high-profile exit at the regulator as the Trump admin undertakes an overhaul of federal health agencies.
#law #science #medicine #RFKJr #HHS #PublicHealth #economy #Trumpcession
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
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The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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#News #CDC #RFKJr #Health #Measles #Medicine #PublicHealth #Vaccines #Science
With #MAGA #antivax morons like #RFKJr in power in the #USA we have people dying of measles, soon polio, then what?
Consumption? Dropsy? Goiter?
What long defeated #health scourges in the #US will make comeback?
Is it going to be like that old game "#Oregon Trail"?:
"You have died of #dysentery"?
wait... what the fuck?:
"Dysentery outbreak hits Oregon
Published Mar 06, 2025 at 2:14 PM EST"
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Dysentery outbreak hits Oregon
Dysentery rates have been rising among the Portland population since 2023, and is attributed largely to a lack of public restroom facilities.Sophie Clark (Newsweek)
