Fuck Joe Rogan and every other prominent voice who wants children to get sick and die for their own boneheaded contrarian amusement too.

Director of HHS convinces people to expose their children to measles and then not to take them to a doctor
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/03/director-of-hhs-convinces-people-to-expose-their-children-to-measles-and-then-not-to-take-them-to-a-doctor

Editorial from our local newspaper staff.

Thousand Oaks Acorn: Measles doesn’t have to be a full-blown crisis

"...It’s hard to believe that more than 60 years after the measles vaccine was created, public health officials must remind families to get their kids inoculated or face the consequences.

With measles cases popping up across the U.S. and spring break travel approaching, Ventura County Public Health officials advise residents who are not already immune to get vaccinated against the highly contagious disease.

The best protection against measles infection is the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, the county said..."

https://www.toacorn.com/articles/measles-doesnt-have-to-be-a-full-blown-crisis/

I keep thinking the list of businesses with measles exposures in Oklahoma is some kind of harbinger of how bad this measles outbreak is going to be in the US, given antivax sentiment. It's like the who's who of mainstream US suburban retail shops.

Walmart, Kohl's, Sam's Club, Lowe's, Sprouts, Aldi

https://oklahoma.gov/health/news---events/newsroom/2025/osdh-reports-additional-measles-cases.html

Hey #GenX I'm a bit worried that a lot of you aren't clear about #Measles vs #Rubella

And it's still bloody confusing to me because another name for measles is apparently Rubeola and when I searched "Measles" just now I saw that and I thought there was just confusion on someone's part about how to spell a weird latin disease name.

But anyways, we all most of us got Rubella as kids, and the grownups called it Measles, or else German Measles, but that was Rubella. Little red rashies everywhere for a few days, no further ill effects. One of those "harmless childhood diseases" that antivax crew love to deathcult about.

Measles or "Red Measles" or Rubeola, on the other hand, that shit is bad. Real fuckin bad. And as I understand it, that's what is on the spread.

Rubella = German Measles = don't panic.

Measles = Rubeola = antivaxxers are participants in multiple homicides.

So my concern is, that a lot of you are brushing off the Measles outbreaks, because you think it's Rubella.

From the Wikipedia article on #measles:

"In populations not exposed to measles, exposure to the new disease can be devastating. In 1529, a measles outbreak in Cuba killed two-thirds of those indigenous people who had previously survived smallpox. Two years later, measles was responsible for the deaths of half the population of Honduras..."

THAT is the kind of fire #BrainWormsJr wants us to play with.

Measles in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. 3/14/25

https://swiftcurrentonline.com/articles/measles-case-and-exposure-confirmed-in-swift-current

JAMA:

March 14, 2025
Revising US MMR Vaccine Recommendations Amid Changing Domestic Risks

"...The committee outlines a few special cases for the administration of a third lifetime dose, including during an ongoing measles or mumps outbreak and among high-risk groups (eg, health care workers and immunocompromised individuals). Additionally, for children aged 6 to 11 months scheduled to travel internationally, the committee recommends an additional early dose (ie, a third dose) of the MMR vaccine before travel, administered before initiating their routine 2-dose series at age 12 months. Historically, disease importations from unvaccinated children traveling internationally to endemic regions has been the major source of US measles cases. However, multiple recent US measles outbreaks, coupled with low vaccination rates, signal a growing domestic hazard..."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2831828

Ah, missed it... Michigan now on the measles board.

Michigan Health & Human Services:

March 14, 2025

OAKLAND, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and Oakland County Health Division have confirmed an adult case of measles in Oakland County. This is the first confirmed case of measles in Michigan this year and the first case since July 2024.

The infected adult had recent overseas travel and their vaccination status is unknown.

https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside-mdhhs/newsroom/2025/03/14/first-measles-case-in-the-state-confirmed-in-oakland-county

Friday, March 14, 2025

OKLAHOMA CITY - Today, the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) is reporting two more probable measles cases. The OSDH received notification of the cases on March 14, 2025, and immediately began its investigation.

Business: Kohl's
Address: 12405 E 96th St N, Owasso, OK 74055
Date: Feb. 27, 2025
Time: 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Business: Aldi
Address: 9259 N Owasso Expressway, Owasso, OK 74055
Date: Feb. 27, 2025

Time: 4:20 - 7:00 p.m.
Business: Walmart Supercenter
Address: 12101 E 96th St N, Owasso, OK 74055
Date: Feb. 27, 2025
Time: 5:15 - 8:00 p.m.

Business: Sam's Club
Address: 12905 E 96th St N, Owasso, OK 74055
Date: Feb. 27, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 9:21 p.m.

Business: Sprouts Farmers Market
Address: 9601 N 133rd E Ave, Owasso, OK 74055
Date: Feb. 27, 2025
Time: 7:30 - 10:02 p.m.

Business: Lowe's Home Improvement
Address: 1746 S Lynn Riggs Blvd, Claremore, OK 74019
Date: March 2, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 9:27 p.m.

https://oklahoma.gov/health/news---events/newsroom/2025/osdh-reports-additional-measles-cases.html

NBC News: Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital

"On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.

By that time, other new moms, newborn babies and their families at University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock had unknowingly been exposed to the virus, considered one of the most contagious in the world. ..."

h/t @exador23

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-hospital-newborn-babies-exposed-rcna196519

YIKES!

On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.

By that time, other new moms, newborn babies and their families at University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock had unknowingly been exposed to the virus, considered one of the most contagious in the world.

Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts — implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as three days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system fight off infections. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-hospital-newborn-babies-exposed-rcna196519

Spring Break in the US with a #measles outbreak. How many airports full of people will be exposed?

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/collapsing-us-herd-immunity-to-measles-spurs-experts-to-call-for-extra-mmr-dose/

#Kansas confirms first #measles case since 2018 amid outbreak in other states

The new case is in Stevens County in southwest Kansas. It’s unclear if it is connected to outbreaks in New Mexico and Texas.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed the first case of measles in the state since 2018.

https://www.kcur.org/2025-03-14/kansas-confirms-first-measles-case-since-2018-amid-outbreak-in-other-states

US #measles outlook is so bad health experts call for updating vaccine guidance - https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/collapsing-us-herd-immunity-to-measles-spurs-experts-to-call-for-extra-mmr-dose/ grim

Measles is unlike other viruses: What to know about long-term complications.

From NBC News: "The virus targets certain types of immune cells in the body, destroying them in the process."

https://flip.it/MaZ0pr

Hi #RFKJr

“At least 308 US #measles cases so far this year, marking the most infections reported nationwide in a single year since a record 2019 wave.

More than 90% of the cases have been from a growing outbreak in TX and neighboring NM – totaling at least 284 measles infections in the CDC data.

2 additional "probable" cases linked to the outbreak in OK have so far not been added to the CDC tally”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-outbreak-2025-most-cases-since-2019/

Looks like a local outbreak of measles in Victoria, Australia as well. Feels like somewhat of an international outbreak, perhaps because so many populations swallowed too much antivax propaganda the last few years?

Victoria DOH: Local outbreak of measles in Victoria

"...Five further measles cases have been identified in Victoria. Two of these cases are locally acquired and linked to the recent local outbreak reported in February. Three cases acquired their infection overseas in Bali. These cases have been infectious at multiple locations around Melbourne...."

https://www.health.vic.gov.au/health-alerts/new-measles-case-in-victoria-4