Now drink your lead and other poison.

[Larniavc]

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.

I think we can assume nothing really happens and the perp gets congratulated for turning over a new chapter in their lives; thanks be to God.

 

[essentialsaltes]

CDC leaders ordered staff not to release their experts’ assessment showing the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccinations are lagging.

That's according to internal records reviewed by the non-profit ProPublica. The agency's plan to roll out the news was aborted.

A CDC spokesperson told ProPublica the agency decided against releasing the assessment quote “because it does not say anything that the public doesn't already know.”

[Next up hurricane warnings. What? People in the affected areas know it's windy out.]

 

[Pommer]

CDC leaders ordered staff not to release their experts’ assessment showing the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccinations are lagging.

That's according to internal records reviewed by the non-profit ProPublica. The agency's plan to roll out the news was aborted.

A CDC spokesperson told ProPublica the agency decided against releasing the assessment quote “because it does not say anything that the public doesn't already know.”

[Next up hurricane warnings. What? People in the affected areas know it's windy out.]

Since the people involved with (now not) disseminating this information have nothing to do, DOGE can eliminate their positions, another win!

 

[essentialsaltes]

2nd child with measles dies in Texas, according to state health officials​

There have been nearly 500 cases of measles in Texas, with over 600 in the U.S.

"The school-aged child who tested positive for measles was hospitalized in Lubbock and passed away on Thursday from what the child’s doctors described as measles pulmonary failure," the statement said, in part. "The child was not vaccinated and had no reported underlying conditions."

An unvaccinated school-aged child also died of measles in Texas in late February, according to the Texas Department of Health Services – the first measles death in a decade in the United States. A week later, an unvaccinated adult in New Mexico diedwith measles, the New Mexico Department of Health reported.

The U.S. declared measles eliminated in the year 2000, after finding no continuous spread of the highly contagious disease over 12 months. The country would be at risk of losing that status if an outbreak continued for more than one year. The Texas outbreak saw its first measles cases in January.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Measles cases at 541 in Texas, increase since Tuesday update​

In a White House cabinet meeting Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated in part, “We have about 680 [measles] cases now in 22 states…”

[This puts us halfway to breaking 2019's kind of phenomenal record of 1,249 from recent years. Before the vaccine arrived, cases in the US were routinely in the hundreds of thousands.]

 

[essentialsaltes]

700 total US

 

[essentialsaltes]

Michigan reports first confirmed measles outbreak since 2019​

Three cases were confirmed in Montcalm County, according to a MDHHS statement.

Almost 25% of children under 3 years of age in Montcalm County have not received their first dose of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, according to the MDHHS vaccination data.

CDC:

As of April 17, 2025, a total of 800 confirmed* measles cases were reported by 25 jurisdictions

 

[essentialsaltes]

Video shows Texas doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer​

Edwards is asked whether he had measles, and he responded, “Yes,” then said his infection started the day before the video was recorded.

 

[essentialsaltes]

As of May 1, 2025, a total of 935 confirmed* measles cases were reported by 30 jurisdictions

This is still short of the 2019 annual total (1274), but apparently is the largest weekly increase since the 1990s, before measles was 'eradicated'.

 

[Desk trauma]

Video shows Texas doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer​

Edwards is asked whether he had measles, and he responded, “Yes,” then said his infection started the day before the video was recorded.

Papa nurgle approves.

 

[7thKeeper]

Papa nurgle approves.

I've gotten into Trench Crusade recently. Beelzebub approves.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Did a recent Texas Rangers game become a measles super-spreader event?​

Health officials warn that a person with measles in Denton County attended a Rangers game.​

One of those locations [where the patient was known to be while considered infectious] was Globe Life Field, where the patient attended the April 19th contest against the Los Angeles Dodgers among a crowd of 39,244 people. It is not yet known whether the patient was vaccinated against the disease.

[With a ~2 week incubation period, we should know the answer to the question pretty soon]

 

[essentialsaltes]

As of May 1, 2025, a total of 935 confirmed* measles cases were reported by 30 jurisdictions

This is still short of the 2019 annual total (1274), but apparently is the largest weekly increase since the 1990s, before measles was 'eradicated'.

US surpasses 1,000 measles cases for 1st time in 5 years: CDC​

Among the nationally confirmed cases, CDC says about 96% are among people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.

In Texas, where an outbreak has been spreading in the western part of the state, at least 709 cases have been confirmed as of Friday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

That's +66 in a week. The 2019 record will likely fall before the year's half over.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Back to enjoying the lead.

CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say​

Under Trump, the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was cut.

On April 1, the staff of the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was terminated as part of the agency's reduction in force, according to NPR. The staff included epidemiologists, statisticians, and advisors who specialized in lead exposures and responses.

The cuts were immediately consequential to health officials in Milwaukee, who are currently dealing with a lead exposure crisis in public schools. Six schools have had to close, displacing 1,800 students. In April, the city requested help from the CDC's lead experts, but the request was denied—there was no one left to help.

[HHS Sec] Kennedy has also previously told lawmakers that lead experts at the CDC who were terminated would be rehired. But that statement was also false. The health department's own communications team told ABC that the lead experts would not be reinstated.

 

[essentialsaltes]

US surpasses 1,000 measles cases for 1st time in 5 years: CDC​

That's +66 in a week. The 2019 record will likely fall before the year's half over.

Friday the 13th: 1,197.

77 to go to tie 2019.

 

[DaisyDay]

Friday the 13th: 1,197.

77 to go to tie 2019.

Is this winning?

 

[essentialsaltes]

As of July 1, 2025, a total of 1,267 confirmed* measles cases were reported by 38 jurisdictions.

This surpasses the outlier (or harbinger) 2019 record, making the numbers for 2025 (only halfway through) the highest this century and most since 1992, well before measles was declared 'eliminated' in 2000.

 

[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.].
The couple ... spoke ... to CHD Executive Director Polly Tommey and CHD Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker.

Guess who got measles?

Prominent US anti-vaxxer says he caught measles in West Texas​

Brian Hooker seems to not have alerted authorities of his illness after leaving west Texas

One of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the US says he caught measles in west Texas and traveled back home – but he seems not to have alerted local authorities of his illness, which means the highly transmissible virus may have spread onward.

[After filming the interview above and others in that community,] Hooker then traveled home to Redding, California, and developed measles symptoms, he said.

“Full disclosure, 18 days after visiting Seminole, Texas, sitting in a measles clinic and being exposed to Doctor Ben with the measles, I got the measles. So cool,” Hooker said.

Hooker says he turned to the alternative treatments hailed by anti-vaccine activists. [antivax Dr. Ben] Edwards had given him cod liver oil and vitamin C supplements in Gaines county, Hooker said, noting: “I stuck them in my luggage, and that’s what I did.”

Hooker is a prominent figure in the anti-vaccine community. He testified on Tuesday before a US Senate committee in its first-ever “vaccine injury” hearing, attempting to link MMR vaccination to autism – despite numerous studies showing no relationship.

Hooker said he became sick with measles despite being vaccinated as a child. But because he was born before 1989, he probably only received one dose of the MMR vaccine, which is 93% effective at stopping illness. Vaccination may also make breakthrough illness milder.

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In other news, 1309 confirmed cases in the US in 2025 (so far).

 

[Gene2memE]

Canada is also undergoing a measles outbreak, centred on Ontario

How Canada became the centre of a measles outbreak in North America

Confirmed cases of measles in Canada are nearly three times higher than in the US, despite Canada's far smaller population.

www.bbc.com

The UK went through its own one in 2024, but is slowly getting it out of control.

Confirmed cases of measles in England by month, age, region and upper-tier local authority: 2025

www.gov.uk