Mastodawn

More than #covid is #airborne - #measles is airborne too. Also, with #wildfires & folks with pollen allergy issues - wearing a mask helps with not getting super sick, especially if others also mask up. You're guaranteed only one life - don't fuck it up by simply refusing to #MaskUp

https://flipboard.com/@ottawacititzen/ottawa-news-1u5c7nbiz/-/a-_rzWotBrTAOBzfNsL_7o8w%3Aa%3A2439373826-%2F0

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles

#Contagious #Health #Medical #CDNpoli #BCpoli #FireBonnieHenry #Preventative #BeProactive #DoBetter #TakeAction #YallStillMasking #ProtectCommunity #CommunityHealth #HealthFirst #Rubeola #Preventable #FactSheet #Science

Ottawa Hospital, public health warn of possible measles exposures in the city

Officials from The Ottawa Hospital are notifying staff, physicians and in-patients who might have been exposed to measles after a case was identified …

ottawacitizen.com - Elizabeth Payne

Cosmic Librarian Jun 30

Old diseases are new again, thanks to RFK,Jr. and changes in vaccine policy...

New docs get schooled in old diseases as vax rates fall

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is adding a new twist to its curriculum for medical students and residents, using AI tools and learning modules to teach how to more quickly identify measles rashes on different skin tones.

Dr. Paul Offit knows his stuff...I got to hear him speak and met him several years ago when I worked with vaccines. Now we are setting disease prevention back decades.

#vaccines #preventable diseases #medicaltraining

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/new-docs-get-schooled-in-old-diseases-as-vax-rates-fall

New docs get schooled in old diseases as vax rates fall

It's a grim reminder that diseases once thought to have been eradicated are showing up with increased frequency.

Axios

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Nonilex Jun 28

…Some Americans know the reality of these #preventable #diseases all too well. For them, news of #measles outbreaks & rising #WhoopingCough cases brings back terrible memories of lives forever changed – & a longing to spare others from similar pain.

[I can speak to this personally. The Spanish Influenza (which BTWs did not originate in Spain — much like #Trump labeled #COVID “the China virus”) orphaned my grandmother as a toddler killing both her parents & her baby sister.]

#vaccines #RFKJr

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS Jun 18

Info from @medpagetoday shows the #inhumanity of the current US gov't: #Medicaid cuts passed by #HouseOfRepresentatives would result in 8,000 to 25,000 #preventable #deaths annually, #research shows. Cuts also would mean 1.3 million people will go w/o needed #meds. https://tinyurl.com/57728x2u

Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Result in Thousands of Preventable Deaths, Study Finds

Study also shows 1.3 million would forego their medications after losing coverage

Dendrobatus Azureus May 6

Processing the loss of my little cousin, who died Sunday in a traffic 🚦 incident. The tragic thing is that my little cousin was racing with a friend of his without wearing proper motorcycle PPE, category racing. On top of that he was racing on public roads not on a racetrack.

Since the speed was high and proper PPE was not worn, the result was deadly for him

He was only twenty-one

Sigh 😔

@stefano

@Timpostma

#LossofLife #family #PPE #tragic #preventable #permanent #death

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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻Apr 28

Day 29 ⚕️🚒🏥

“Royal Flying Doctor Service Federation chief executive #EmmaBuchanan said more than 32,000 people across the country did not have access to a #GP within a 60-minute drive.

More than 100,000 people do not have access to #MentalHealth resources.

"We know that people who live in very #RemoteAreas are likely to die 14 years earlier to their urban counterparts and that they're dying from causes that are largely #preventable,"

#AusPol / #medical / #resources / #RFDS / #RuralHealth / #Labor / #LNP / #Liberal / #Coalition <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-28/gp-shortage-rural-communities-queensland-federal-election-2025/105205838>

Towns with no doctors say election health proposals a 'bandaid' approach

Rural Queensland residents who are travelling up to 180 kilometres to see a doctor say they are disappointed with the lack of focus on health this federal election.

ABC News

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱Mar 17

#Preventable

From: @chad
https://mstdn.ca/@chad/114176172664402634

Chad :mstdn: 🇨🇦 (@chad@mstdn.ca)

I'm getting deja vu... Two cases of measles in Edmonton spurs health alert | CTV Edmonton #yeg #alberta #measles #pandemic https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/two-cases-of-measles-in-edmonton-spurs-health-alert/

Mastodon Canada

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱Mar 7

#Preventable

From: https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114117990512788715

AI6YR Ben (@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)

CBC: More kids hospitalized with breathing issues, 'very high' fevers as measles outbreak grows 3/6/25 "The number of unvaccinated children contracting measles continues to grow across southwestern Ontario with public health officials worried the outbreak is much larger than current numbers show.... There are currently: 136 cases in Southwestern Public Health region (up from 115 cases earlier this week). 82 cases in Grand Erie Public Health region (79 exclusively in Norfolk county) 6 cases in Huron Perth Public Health region (all linked to the above cases)" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/more-kids-hospitalized-with-breathing-issues-very-high-fevers-as-measles-outbreak-grows-1.7476636 #measles #outbreak #canada #ontario #health

AI6YR's Mastodon

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱Feb 27

#Preventable

“Measles death of unvaccinated child in Texas outbreak is 1st fatality in US in a decade

LUBBOCK, Texas -- An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first death associated with an outbreak in the western part of the state that has infected more than 100 people.”

https://abc13.com/post/first-measles-death-is-reported-west-texas-outbreak-infected-more-120-people/15956727/

#AntiVax #AntiScience