Magat grandbabies with measles.
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@Mary-Anna I had measles, mumps, and chicken pox, but not German measles. The vaccine came out right around the time I hit puberty and I was vaccinated for rubella then.
I wonder if the lack of collective memory is because it was a long time ago (longer for some of us than others!), we were kids and kids aren't always aware of stuff like that, and also that serious illness with measles doesn't happen, relatively speaking, that often.
The tragedy is that the cases like Dahl's daughter are now preventable because the vaccine is available and it isn't being taken advantage of.
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Bill Cassidy, the Republican US senator, has said his home state of Louisiana’s recent decision to cancel the promotion of mass vaccination against preventable diseases is a disservice to parents who want to keep their children healthy.
Nonetheless, before those remarks, the medical doctor-turned-politician who has clashed with Donald Trump joined 51 of his fellow Republicans in voting to confirm anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr as secretary of the US’s health and human services department. Cassidy had also previously voted to advance Trump’s nomination of Kennedy as national health secretary from the committee level to the full Senate.
Louisiana, which Cassidy has represented in the Senate since 2015, made national headlines on Thursday when its surgeon general, Ralph Abraham, announced that the state’s health department would “no longer promote mass vaccination”. The directive meant the state government would immediately stop using media campaigns and health fairs to promote or distribute immunization vaccines that have long been proven to be safe and effective, saying it would essentially be up to each family to weigh “the risks and benefits” on their own.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/16/louisiana-vaccines-rfk-jr
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Apparently the outbreak is centered in a Mennonite community that doesn’t believe in vaccines.
Thus explaining why there are so few Mennonite communities.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday said the nation’s major measles outbreak is “not unusual,” as a child who was not vaccinated died from the virus in West Texas.
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@ShiroKuro If you had the two shot series you are covered for life.
Meanwhile, the CDC has cancelled two vaccine-related meetings in less than a week.
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I was just reading today that there’s concern adults vaccinated many years ago might become more at risk over time as antivaxx sentiment grows. It did say boosters might become necessary at some point but it went short of recommending them now. I’m not even sure how available they are.
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I know there have been sporadic outbreaks of mumps in vaccinated college age kids. And that natural immunity is more long-lasting than vaccine-triggered immunity.
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-so-many-college-students-are-coming-down-mumps
How long do vaccines last?
If anyone is worried about their protection, there is an MMR titer you can have done.
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Didn't take long.
A top spokesman in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services abruptly resigned over reports of internal clashing over the management by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and escalating health emergencies.
"I want to announce to my friends and colleagues that last Friday I announced my resignation effective immediately," Thomas Corry, who served as U.S. assistant secretary of public affairs at HHS, announced Monday via LinkedIn.
The quick exit was prompted due to growing dissent over RFK Jr.'s management style and the influence of his new principal deputy chief of staff, Stefanie Spear, Politico reported. Spear is a longtime Kennedy aide and press secretary during his ill-fated 2024 presidential run in which he bowed out to endorse Trump.
"To my colleagues at HHS, I wish you the best and great success," Corry said.
He served in the first Trump administration in similar roles at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as senior adviser and director of communications.
Corry resigned less than two weeks after his appointment.
He wrote last month after he was sworn in again that he was "thankful that I'll be part of the team that is going to work to make America healthy again, and on making healthcare more affordable and accessible."
But he reportedly grew uneasy with Kennedy's hushed response to a growing measles outbreak in Texas which, so far, has infected at least 146 people and saw its first American death from the virus in at least 10 years, according to Politico.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-leadership-style-growing-222019527.html
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@Steve-Miller loloL very good
