Now drink your lead and other poison.

[Aaron112]

america stupid again !

So far, never otherwise; never wise. Never going the correct, good or right direction.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Two individuals in Oklahoma reported symptoms consistent with measles and had potential exposure to outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico, the Oklahoma Health Department said Tuesday. It praised the individuals for “immediately excluding themselves from public settings.”

[Sooners obeying the rules!]

At least 223 cases of measles have been detected in the South Plains region of Texas since January, the state’s health authority said Tuesday. Of those, 218 involved those who were not vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status.

New Mexico’s health department had reported 33 total cases as of Tuesday, the majority of which are in an area along the border with Texas.

 

[RileyG]

Vaccinate! Vaccinate! Vaccinate! X infinity

Protect those with an immunocompromised system!

 

[RileyG]

Measles outbreak: 146 cases reported in Texas following death of unvaccinated child​

Can that be considered neglect? How very sad!

 

[essentialsaltes]

Can that be considered neglect? How very sad!

Vaccination isn't mandatory. However, in many states (dunno about Texas) it's required if you send your kids to public school.

 

[RileyG]

Vaccination isn't mandatory. However, in many states (dunno about Texas) it's required if you send your kids to public school.

Makes sense to me!

 

[essentialsaltes]

Newborns exposed to measles in Texas hospital​

Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.

On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.

Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts — implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as three days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system fight off infections.

A 2021 study found that the therapy is highly effective in protecting exposed newborns from getting sick.

 

[RileyG]

That’s so sad!

 

[wing2000]

Newborns exposed to measles in Texas hospital​

Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.

On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.

Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts — implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as three days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system fight off infections.

A 2021 study found that the therapy is highly effective in protecting exposed newborns from getting sick.

On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.

...so unnecessary.

 

[FireDragon76]

In 2014 Flint found lead in the water and Republicans bashed the Democratic mayor over it. They are still working on the problem but if you think about replacing the lead pipe in the existing structure will be a time/money-consuming undertaking.

I think Trump is dumb because we need a time limit and benefits for individual homeowners. After all our government knew lead paint was dangerous in the 80s but no one thought (out of sight out of mind) about lead pipes after 30 years or maybe some did but realized the undertaking.

Flint's water woes were mostly due to the fact the Republican dominated state government allowed improper sterilisation of the water, just to save money, making the problem of lead contamination much worse. It went far beyond the usual exposure one would expect from old city water pipes.

 

[Laodicean60]

Flint's water woes were mostly due to the fact the Republican dominated state government allowed improper sterilisation of the water, just to save money, making the problem of lead contamination much worse. It went far beyond the usual exposure one would expect from old city water pipes.

I don't care about it. This seems to have gone on for too long, and no party is fixing the issues.

 

[Larniavc]

Texas pastor brags online about his school having the state’s lowest measles vaccination rate: ‘We celebrate it’​

Mercy Culture Church Lead Pastor Landon Schott posted a video to the platform on Wednesday to commend the K-12 preparatory school.

Only 14.3 percent of kindergarteners at the 300-student Fort Worth school were vaccinated for measles for the 2023 to 2024 school years, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said. It is one of six facilities in North Texas that have less than 50 percent of its kindergarten population vaccinated, according to The Dallas Morning News.

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This guy should be defrocked or whatever it is that happened to bad pastors.

 

[FireDragon76]

This guy should be defrocked or whatever it is that happened to bad pastors.

Unfortunately, many of these types of fundamentalist religious groups have few or no accountability structures outside the congregation that would make that possible. They are almost one-man feifdom's in terms of the pastor's authority.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Just two days ago, the LA Times ran a story about falling measles vaccination rates among kindergarteners entering school.

Fewer California kindergarten students immunized against measles last year, new data show​

New data from the California Department of Public Health show that last year, 96.2% of California students in transitional kindergarten and kindergarten were vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella in the 2023-24 school year, down from 96.5% the year before.

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96.2% is above the 95% rate considered to provide herd immunity, but there is a great deal of variation by county. For those unaware of the red-blue divide in California, a roughly accurate notion is that the coasts (where most of the population is) is very blue, and the inland areas are red. And looking at the vaccination rates, this is largely borne out, with a few outliers like nutty flaky kooky back to nature Santa Cruz having a somewhat lower vaccination rate (91.8%) than other super-blue areas. But hovering in the 70s% are Sutter and El Dorado. As you might tell from the names, this is literally Gold Country -- them thar hills where the gold was (and still is) in the Sierra Nevada.

And now from today, not too far from there, in Tuolumne County (93.1%), bordering Yosemite.

Tuolumne County confirms two measles cases, warns of exposure at high school and emergency room​

The department said the cases involved an adult and a child under 18 who lived in the same household and had traveled internationally. It’s unclear whether they had been vaccinated against measles, a highly contagious and potentially deadly disease most often associated with a high fever and rash.

On Tuesday, the department said it was investigating the cases for measles and warned of potential exposure at Summerville High School in Tuolumne on March 10-11 and at Adventist Health Sonora Emergency Department on the evening of March 15 and morning of March 16.

Public health officials issued another update Thursday night warning those who visited the Sonora Sports and Fitness Center’s back gym, locker rooms, restrooms and back pool area on March 10 between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. of possible exposure.

[This has to be a public health nightmare for vectors: school, hospital, gym.]

I'm not predicting disaster, but public health is right to be taking actions and raising awareness. Overall, California has had 8 cases of measles this year.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Texas parents of child who died of measles urge others not to vaccinate​

The couple, members of the Mennonite community in Gaines County, were interviewed by the anti-vaccination group Children Health Defense [founded by HHS Secretary RFK Jr.].

“She says they would still say ‘Don’t do the shots,’ ” an unidentified translator for the parents said. “They think it’s not as bad as the media is making it out to be.”

The couple, members of a Mennonite community in Gaines County, spoke on camera in both English and Low German to CHD Executive Director Polly Tommey and CHD Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker.

“It was her time on Earth,” the translator said the parents told her.

“The measles wasn’t that bad. They got over it pretty quickly,” the mother said of her other four surviving children who were treated* with castor oil and inhaled steroids and recovered.

Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, which cared for the couple’s daughter, released a prepared statement on Thursday. They said the interview circulating online contains “misleading and inaccurate claims regarding care provided at Covenant Children’s” and that the hospital could not directly speak about the girl’s case because of patient confidentiality laws.

*But then, the family had the children treated by an alternative practitioner, Ben Edwards, who has grown popular in their West Texas community amid the ongoing measles outbreak. Edwards administers unproven treatments, including cod liver oil and the steroid budesonide, which is used to treat asthma and Crohn's disease.

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Texas + NM = 300+ cases now

 

[essentialsaltes]

We need a new metaphor.

Opening the barn door a little wider just as the horses begin escaping.

Kansas lawmakers want to loosen vaccine requirements amid a measles outbreak in the state​

The bill is aimed at reducing specific fees and training requirements for early child care facilities. But a provision expands religious exemptions for vaccines that are required for child care programs. The Kansas House recently approved the bill with bipartisan support.

Kansas vaccine advocates argue the requirement changes could reduce vaccine rates amid a growing public health issue.

 

[essentialsaltes]

But then, the family had the children treated by an alternative practitioner, Ben Edwards, who has grown popular in their West Texas community amid the ongoing measles outbreak. Edwards administers unproven treatments, including cod liver oil and the steroid budesonide, which is used to treat asthma and Crohn's disease.

West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak​

Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock confirms it is treating children with severe cases of measles who are also suffering from vitamin A toxicity. According to the hospital, they have admitted fewer than 10 pediatric patients who were all initially hospitalized due to measles complications but have elevated levels of vitamin A that is resulting in abnormal liver function.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the CDC to update its measles guidance to promote the use of vitamin A.

Kennedy, who has a history of spreading misinformation about vaccines, recommended in an article published March 2 on FOX News to take vitamin A under the supervision of a physician for those with mild, moderate and severe infections.

During a March 4 interview on Fox News, Kennedy suggested that therapies such as the use of cod liver oil — which contains vitamins A and D — were "working" in treating measles patients.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Growing measles outbreak in Texas pushes U.S. cases above 520​

The number of recorded cases in less than three months in 2025 is higher than for any year in the last decade, except for one. Texas alone has 400 confirmed cases.

The outbreak has spread to three other states: New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas, where the World Health Organization reported on Thursday that a DNA sequence of the virus in one case was identical to those from Texas.

 

[That Guy 11200]

West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak​

Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock confirms it is treating children with severe cases of measles who are also suffering from vitamin A toxicity. According to the hospital, they have admitted fewer than 10 pediatric patients who were all initially hospitalized due to measles complications but have elevated levels of vitamin A that is resulting in abnormal liver function.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the CDC to update its measles guidance to promote the use of vitamin A.

Kennedy, who has a history of spreading misinformation about vaccines, recommended in an article published March 2 on FOX News to take vitamin A under the supervision of a physician for those with mild, moderate and severe infections.

During a March 4 interview on Fox News, Kennedy suggested that therapies such as the use of cod liver oil — which contains vitamins A and D — were "working" in treating measles patients.

This dangerous RFK quack belongs in prison and so do the irresponsible parents.

 

[Perpetual Student]

This guy should be defrocked or whatever it is that happened to bad pastors.

I know that such a procedure exists within the Roman Catholic Church, and possibly in the Church of England too. Does this exist in other denominations? Please enlighten me.