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#Trump #RFKJr #AntiVax #eugenics #science #medicine #PublicHealth #vaccines #VaccinesWork #GetVaccinated

The #outbreak has led to at least 155 hospitalizations, including 431 adults & 824 children. There have been 3 confirmed deaths.

The #measles #virus is one of the most contagious #InfectiousDiseases. It's so #contagious that 92% of #unvaccinated people who are exposed end up contracting the disease. And 1 in 5 of those people end up in the #hospital, according to [what’s left of] the CDC.

Confirmed #measles cases have been reported by 39 #states & jurisdictions as of July 5. Most of the cases have been reported in #Texas, #NewMexico & #Kansas, acc/to the #JohnsHopkins Center for Outbreak Response Innovation & the #CDC.
The measles #outbreak in west TX is growing; 36 counties have reported cases, acc/to the TX Dept of State Health Services. As of July 1, TX has recorded 753 confirmed cases since Jan, including 2 deaths among school-age children living in the largest outbreak area.

#Trump #RFKJr #AntiVax #eugenics #science #medicine #PublicHealth #vaccines #VaccinesWork #GetVaccinated

Knowing the #symptoms of this #vaccine-preventable #disease can help reduce its chance of spreading. Here is a comparison of #measles symptoms in children & adults.

According to the [fmr] #CDC, measles symptoms appear 7 to 14 days after contact with the #virus & typically include high fever, cough, runny nose & watery eyes. Measles rash appears 3 to 5 days after the first symptoms.

#Trump #RFKJr #science #medicine #PublicHealth #vaccines

Other signs & #symptoms of #measles include:

Koplik's spots, tiny white spots that may appear inside the mouth 2 to 3 days after symptoms begin.

Small raised bumps may also appear on top of the flat red spots (the spots may become joined as they spread from the head to the rest of the body).

When the rash appears, a person’s fever may spike to more than 104°F.

#JohnsHopkins University CORI measles page:
https://cori.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/measles-outbreak-response

Measles Outbreak Response | Center for Outbreak Response Innovation

Center for Outbreak Response Innovation

Urzl Jul 7

@Nonilex The only bright side to the Texas flooding is the slowing of their measles factories.

@Nonilex
Koplik's spots. There were once examples on the CDC website, before the nuts got into power and had DOGE scrub the site.
#KolpiksSpots
You can still find photos on sites from less backward countries, like Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK.
https://www.carlislehealthcare.co.uk/news/think-measles

@Nonilex
Still available on American Family Physician.
https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2017/0601/p729.html

Rash Inside the Mouth

A 40-years-old woman presented with a four-day history of sore throat, dry cough, malaise, and myalgia. One day prior to presentation, she noted a rash on the inside of her mouth.

@Nonilex
There are photos on
Science Photo Library.

This is important, because younger physicians in the US may never have seen a case in person, until the anti-vax movement took hold, causing this resurgence.
https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/259736/view/koplik-s-spots-in-measles

@Nonilex
The Anti-Vax "movement" in the US was largely Kremlin backed social media bot and troll posts. It goes back at least as far as 2014.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6137759/

Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate

Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content. Methods. We compared bots’ to average users’ rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which we collected online from July 2014 through September 2017. We ...

PubMed Central (PMC)

Catherine is not complacent Jul 7

@Nonilex I volunteer to take all the anti science idiots on a tour of pre vaccination cemeteries.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/keep-babies-high-risk-albertans-away-from-stampede-due-to-measles-doctors-caution-1.7576448

maya_b 🇨🇦Jul 7

@Nonilex

Calgary, Alberta is currently hosting an internationally attended spreader event

The province has had its own outbreak this year, the Premier says Alberta is following comms guidelines - which are basically non-existent.

Keep babies, high risk Albertans away from Stampede due to measles, doctors caution | CBC News

As the Calgary Stampede kicks off, health experts are warning about the risk of measles exposure and are urging parents with babies and unimmunized children – along with other vulnerable Albertans – to sit this one out.

CBC

JackPearse Jul 7

@Nonilex of course in Texas. The source of the worlds s*******y. Still burning oil. Supporting Trump. Denying Climate Change. Refusal of vaccines. Conspiracy theories.

The world should put the Trumpists into quarantine to protect the rest of the world from them.

Drey Jul 7

@Nonilex - FIRE RFK jr.

gavinisdie

Jul 7

@atlovato @Nonilex out of a cannon too, preferably

Cameron Bosch Jul 7

@Nonilex Vaccinate yourself and your kids ASAP. Unless you (or they) had a severely negative reaction to a previous dose or have otherwise been told by your doctor not to get it, please just get it!

Also, if you cannot get it for those legitimate health reasons above, you should be advocating for everybody you know that can get it to get it (unless they already have gotten the full regimen).