"It’s not the diseases that Americans should be afraid of, Bigtree insists: It’s the shots that stop them. ...

He’s been a close adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and served as communications director for Kennedy’s 2024 presidential campaign. ...

'I genuinely am upset that your kids are vaccinated, because it’s keeping my kids from getting chickenpox. It’s keeping my kids from getting measles,' he told me."

#vaccines #measles #polio #pertussis #RFKJr #Trump #children
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"Over coffee at a Starbucks just outside Austin, Texas, Del Bigtree told me he wants his teenage son to catch polio. Measles, too. He’s considered driving his unvaccinated family to South Carolina, which is in the midst of a historic outbreak, so that they can all be exposed. He prefers pertussis—whooping cough—to the pertussis vaccine, which he later described to me as a 'crime against children'.”

~ Tom Bartlett

#vaccines #measles #polio #pertussis #RFKJr #Trump
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/02/del-bigtree-pro-infection-polio-measles/686092/

Del Bigtree Wants His Kids to Get Polio

Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.

The Atlantic

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy
Worrying to see such a BIG increase in South Australia:
“Reported cases:
🔹COVID: 104 (+31.6%)
🔹Flu: 62 (-45.1%)
🔹RSV: 55 (+48.6%)
🔹Pertussis: 47 (+30.5%)”

Time to upgrade precautions, wear masks, improve hygiene etc; check kids’ immunisation against whooping cough (pertussis).

#covid19 #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #RespiratorySyncytialVirus #Pertussis #publicHealth

#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #ThisWeekInVirology #DanielGriffin #VincentRacaniello #MASA #MakeAmericaSaneAgain #infectiousdiseases #vaccinate #vaccines

TWiC, This Week In Cheese... =D

#TWIV 1288 clinical update week 17. Jan. 2026

Today's recommendation:
Stop Spewing Viruses on your fellow humans!

Dr. Griffin's bowtie of today: Prions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7pRBDTlInc

#norovirus #HMPV #influenza #influenzaA #flu #RSV #covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #LongCovid #pertussis #whoopingcough #measles

TWiV 1288: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

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#Keuchhusten kann besonders für Säuglinge lebensgefährlich sein. HZI-Epidemiologin Carolina Klett-Tammen erklärt bei der Apotheken Umschau die Impfempfehlungen gegen #Pertussis und Gründe, warum die Infektionszahlen angestiegen sind.
https://www.apotheken-umschau.de/krankheiten-symptome/infektionskrankheiten/keuchhusten-wer-sollte-sich-impfen-lassen-1096997.html
Impfung gegen Keuchhusten: Wie Sie schwere Verläufe vermeiden können

Die Erkrankung kann besonders für Neugeborene und Säuglinge gefährlich werden. Experten mahnen daher zur Impfung. Wer braucht sie genau und wie schlimm ist die Situation?

Apotheken Umschau
TWiV 1284: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

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"YEAR ONE MAHA:
1. Measles returns to America
2. Pertussis returns to America
3. Chronic hepatitis liver cancer returns
4. Pandemic preparedness gone
5. Swung & missed on autism
6. CDC disassembled
7. Biotech industry shutting down
8. Brain drain underway"

~ Peter Hotez

#Trump #RFKJr #measles #pertussis #hepatitis #vaccines #MAHA #CDC #research #cancer #BrainDrain
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https://www.threads.com/@drjanemedmicromaps/post/DS_1LoajKuX/photo-posted-by-dr-jane-colleen-harrington-drjanemedmicromaps

DrJane Colleen Harrington (@drjanemedmicromaps) on Threads

Threads

Reposting this as the US breaks 2,000 measles cases for 2025, the highest recorded domestically since 1992. On the accelerating crisis of #vaccine preventable disease, the significance of the drop in #vaccination rates, and how this relates to differing responses across the US. This week, an entire school district in Iowa closed to stop a #measles #outbreak, while hundreds are in quarantine in South Carolina.

#PublicHealth #Epidemiology #Pertussis #Disinformation #InfectiousDisease #WhoopingCough #HHS #CDC #influenza

https://jessk.org/blog/the-signal-in-the-noise

The signal in the noise: pertussis, measles & the cost of anti-vaccine rhetoric — Jessica Kant

In the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that measles, a deadly and highly infectious disease which disproportionately harms children, was successfully declared eliminated. Twenty five years later, that status stands to be revoked.

Jessica Kant
TWiV 1280: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

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TWiV 1276: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

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