In 2026, there have been over 1,000 cases of measles. If vaccination rates keep dropping, the costs of medical care, public health efforts and lost work productivity could skyrocket.
Main site: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
Most infectious disease we know of. 😔
Measles has this interesting quirk where it can completely reset a person’s immune system. So it’s like they never built up immunity to ask the stuff they were exposed to in their life. That’s actually the thing that ends up killing people who get it.
That leginkább is actually something that’s being researched as a potential way to help people with autoimmune issues.
I hate to have to ask, but can we get an actual source for this? It sounds like it would be extremely important info to verify.
You have Google. It’s called immune amnesia, look it up. It’s not some fringe theory. It’s established science regarding measles.
i read up on how it does it, they speculated its likely the measles attacked antigen-presenting dendritic cells which interacts with memory b-cells hence the “wiping out the immunity”. ALso one nasty complication in children it can cause panecephalitis in children, rarely.
the measles attacked antigen-presenting dendritic cells which interacts with memory b-cells hence the “wiping out the immunity”
And once this happens, a trivial cold can become deadly.
maybe not the cold, but the FLU would be easiest way to get hospitalized/
Nice headline, glad people are upset about this because of the financial impact of a highly contagious and possibly fatal viral outbreak.
It’s just a crying shame that companies are losing money on this.
Ya, but this is literal pennies compared to the financial impact of an idiotic war.
There can be more than one bad thing happening, we get it, war is bad, but this is an entirely separate issue that deserves its own attention.
There can be more than one bad thing happening,
And the root cause is the same in each case.
It’s not, though. It’s the same administration, but the war complex and the anti-science conspiracy idiots aren’t the same root. If you removed everyone from the situation to stop war from happening the anti-vax idiots would still be in full force. There is more than one cause of problems in the world and there is more than one person or group causing them and more than one solution required to fix all the problems. This isn’t a storybook.
Shits happening IN MY TOWN. I hate living in the south. Gotta make sure I keep my hands to myself so I don’t spread that shit. People down here are so dumb. They love the war in Iran, they love paying extra for everything to “own the libs”, and they HATE education with a passion.
I’m so sick of reading dollars and cents headlines about humanitarian crises.
Last I heard, the latest medical advice only required you to get the shot once. A second dose was only recommended in rare circumstances. I don’t remember what the rare circumstances were, but I find myself asking more and more “are these circumstances rare enough?”
You can get a blood test to see if you still have immunity. Ive done it with quest. Its very accurate.
I have no idea about how many shots. Its a good question.
Currently two doses of the MMR vaccine in childhood are recommended in the US, as of 1989 iirc. I got a fresh dose recently as an adult because I knew I’d had the first MMR shot but wasn’t sure about the second, plus I really don’t want measles. The pharmacy didn’t give any pushback when I asked for the shot.
The true losses can’t be counted.
That’s exactly what they’re counting on.
No data, no
or minimalconsequence.Fuck around. Find out.
So much winning.
