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During questioning after #Trump’s #cabinet meeting, #Health Secy #RFKJr, a #vaccine critic, said the government was closely watching the #measles outbreak across #Texas. He said measles outbreaks occur every year.

[not at this scale & rate in the US, not before the outbreak of the #ConspiracyTheory #propaganda from idiots like Kennedy]

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #AntiVaxxers #PublicHealth #medicine #science #disease #GetVaccinated #vaccines #USpol #Trump #HHS #idiocracy #TrumpCabinetMeeting 🧵

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#NewMexico has also reported an #outbreak, w/ 9 cases in Lea County, in the southeastern part of the state, on the #Texas border. 4 of those cases are #children…, all of whom are #unvaccinated, acc/to Robert Nott, a spox for the NM Dept of Health. None of the cases in NM have led to hospitalizations.

The outbreak comes amid growing concerns among #PublicHealth experts about declining #vaccination rates & the confirmation of #RFKJr, a prominent #vaccine skeptic, as the nation’s #health secy.

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#Measles is a highly #contagious respiratory illness that can be life-threatening to anyone who is not protected against the #virus.

Doctors say the best way to protect against the #disease is with 2 doses of a #vaccine, which is usually administered to children as a combination measles-mumps-rubella, or #MMR, vaccine. 2 doses of the MMR vaccine prevent more than 97% of measles infections, acc/to #Texas #health ofcls.

“A school-age child has died of #measles in West #Texas, the first [#US] death from the disease in a decade… The child had not been vaccinated against measles… The death…is part of a fast-moving outbreak that's infected at least 124 people — mostly children... All …were admitted because they were having trouble breathing. None had been vaccinated against measles… Measles was considered eliminated in the US in 2000 because of widespread use of the [#MMR] #vaccine...” | NBC nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna193812

NBC News · A child dies of measles in West Texas outbreakBy Erika Edwards

:pensive_butt_clap:​ vaxxmaxers bros, its joever... the pharmacists at the clinic told me they can't inject me with a third vaccine in one week ​:blobcatpensive: they told me stuff like "your body can't handle three injections in one week!" and "this rare serum is 90$, its supposed to be injected into newborns"

such a shame
:neocat_pensive:

#vaxxmaxing #vaccine

What to Know About the #Measles #Vaccine

📌 Parts of Texas and New Mexico have been struck by measles outbreaks, sickening nearly 100 people, health officials announced last week.

📌 Most of the patients in Texas are either unvaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown

📌 The news comes a week after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, was confirmed to run the country’s leading health agency, sparking outrage and concern among public health experts.

time.com/7261250/measles-vacci

Time · What to Know About the Measles VaccineBy Chantelle Lee

for no particular reason i'm just going to throw out there that #measles is the most infectious disease known to man and it also is one that wipes your immune system's memory of all other diseases if you get it.

to put measles's infectiousness in perspective, in an unvaccinated population it would take measles, with its 10 day incubation period, roughly 90 days to infect every human being on the planet.