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#Measles on the move in rural TX as #antivax movement and illegal border crossings create perfect storm for wider outbreaks as at least 64 affected by recent #measles cases in rural areas..

Increasing opt out options for common #vaccines affecting #PublicHealth as approx 15-20% of population refusing vaccines in #NewMexico and #Tejas. Those susceptible to dangerous and occasionally deadly #infections are growing, and potentially deadly diseases are spreading at rates once considered eliminated.

Now with #RFKjr installed as nations's anti vax #health czar, wider risks will likely increase during #DJT admin.

pbs.org/newshour/health/measle

cidrap.umn.edu/measles/measles

news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p

news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p

2 ppl in WY/OH: hospitalized with #H5N1.
-CDC

"This shows that H5N1 can be very severe -shouldn't assume that it'll always be mild" -amid one of the worst flu outbreaks in 15 years *raising the potential for the emergence of a more dangerous virus that combines them -comes as the Trump admin weighs a strategy that WOULDN'T SEEK TO CONTAIN OUTBREAKS in poultry thru depop-.

#RFKJr #HHS -stopped a seasonal flu vaccine campaign."

#Musk #DOGE: weakened the #CDC #FDA.
#USPol theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f

The Guardian · Two people in US hospitalized with bird flu, CDC reportsBy Melody Schreiber

Sharpe Way No. 562! The Trump cabinet confirmation hearings! Ask me Anything!

In this Ask Me Anything forum as we break down the Trump cabinet confirmation hearings for RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel. How did their hearings go? Were they treated fairly, or was it just a political circus? What does this mean for the future of Trump’s cabinet and his ability to push real change in Washington?

#Trump #RFKJr #TulsiGabbard #KashPatel

youtube.com/watch?v=xCx31WhOglY

#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #VincentRacaniello #RFKJr

(A person with such a severe psychiatric disorder, like RFKJr, should NOT be allowed to decide about healthcare of anyone. Period.)

"Dr. Offit explains that RFK Jr.' 's many weird beliefs about the causes, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases are rooted in the fact that he doesn’t believe in the germ theory, but something called the miasma theory."

youtube.com/watch?v=mqn0is7alPI

Bear in mind, birdflu is transmitted not only from humans to cats, but also from cats to humans.

And then there is this. 👇🏼🤦🏼‍♀️🙄😖☣️😷

"Newly confirmed US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants the government to pivot away from infectious disease research and cast doubt on whether germs actually cause illness.

He has also for decades questioned the use of vaccines – seen as key to containing bird flu if it does become a pandemic – and has promoted the consumption of raw milk, a known vector for bird flu."

sciencealert.com/bird-flu-can-

ScienceAlert · Bird Flu Can Spread From Humans to Cats With Fatal ConsequencesA study published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that people can transmit bird flu to their domestic cats, with fatal consequences.

🤔🤔🤔 Maybe vaccines do work 🤔🤔🤔

Why Texas measles outbreak may be ‘the tip of a bigger iceberg’

“The ongoing #Texas #measles outbreak has rapidly grown to the largest the state has seen in decades, spreading through mostly unvaccinated residents and creeping across both county and state lines.

On Friday morning, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported there are now 90 confirmed cases across seven counties in Texas. That’s not counting the nine cases reported by New Mexico health officials as of Thursday evening.”

#vaccines #rfkjr #antivaxxer
dallasnews.com/news/public-hea

#RFKjr reportedly orders #HHS staff to obey Elon Musk's email demanding they justify their jobs or quit, while many federal govt agency leaders are instructing their teams to ignore it.

Well, he doesn't know crap about his job, so why not just let Elon do it. mediaite.com/a/fackk

Mediaite · RFK Jr. Orders HHS Staff to Answer Elon Musk Email ThreatHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly ordering his staff to comply with the email request from Elon Musk for federal workers to justify their jobs.

“Were they dying from Covid or were they dying from chronic disease?”

Easy. They died from Covid.

This idea that having a chronic disease somehow means that it’s ok that you died, or that you could have prevented your own death, is straight up eugenics.

I’m no less worthy of life than those without chronic illness. My chronic illnesses are not my fault. I can’t cure them with diet and exercise (believe me, I tried).

This is health supremacy and we need to call it out. When this behaviour takes root, the elimination of disabled people isn’t far behind.

We are ALL vulnerable to Covid. Placing blame on the individual and waving away millions of deaths as “oh well they had comorbids” is eroding whatever moral compass our society has left.

Mitigate the threat, and less people will die.

Clean air, better ventilation, mandatory masking in healthcare, isolating when sick, free and updated COVID tests and public health education on masks.

It’s time to save lives.

>>In Mullin’s telling, his relationships with many of the major nominees, like Tulsi Gabbard — who he calls his “sister” — and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who he said he got to know while traveling on behalf of the Trump campaign — go back further than their relationships with many other senators.

[snip]

Mullin told NOTUS on Thursday there are “very few” nominees he didn’t know “way before this.” <<

#OklahomaWatch #Oklahoma #MarkwayneMullin #RFKJr #TulsiGabbard #SocialMedia
oklahomawatch.org/2025/02/21/m

Oklahoma Watch · Markwayne Mullin Has Made Trump Administration Nominees His Social Media BrandBy Em Luetkemeyer

#ACIP #CDC #vaccine #RFKjr #COVID

CDC under direction from RFK Jr. has indefinitely postponed this week's ACIP meeting. He has signaled that he will replace some or all members. He might disband the committee.

This WILL impact this falls COVID vaccines and their availability.

nbcnews.com/health/health-news

Stupidity on steroids.

NBC News · First CDC vaccine committee meeting of RFK Jr.'s HHS tenure is postponedBy Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

#TrumptyDumpty and friends -- trying to kill us all, apparently! BTW, more cases of #Measles in west #Texas. smh...

#RFKJr promptly cancels #vaccine advisory meeting, pulls #FluShot campaign

Kennedy is reportedly planning to remove agency vaccine advisers, too.

Beth Mole – Feb 21, 2025 2:11 PM |

"Last weekend, a Washington Post columnist noted on Bluesky that the #CDC's effective 'Wild to Mild' seasonal flu shot campaign had vanished. The campaign highlighted how the seasonal vaccines can prevent influenza infections from becoming severe or life-threatening. It used animals as an analogy for the diminished threat of the flu virus after vaccination, juxtaposing a lion and a domestic kitten in one ad while showing an elephant and a mouse in another. The CDC page no longer leads to a 'not found' landing page, but it wasn't restored either. It now redirects to a 2023 article announcing the campaign, which does not contain the shareable resources found on the original page. The removal is startling given that the US is currently battling one of the worst flu seasons in 15 years."

arstechnica.com/health/2025/02

Ars Technica · RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaignBy Beth Mole

RFK Jr. is now openly targeting the childhood vaccine schedule, contrary to his pledges during his senate confirmation hearings, stating that he would convene representatives "all view points," and that "nothing was going to be off limits." This would include the MMR vaccine, which provides lifetime immunity to measles for 95% of those who receive the vaccine.

Meanwhile, the measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has reached 99 cases, mostly in unvaccinated kids, including 16 hospitalizations. The new top medical officer in the country has, so far, said nothing about this outbreak. But his ally, Sayer Ji, published the following on Wednesday: "mainstream medicine rarely acknowledges...that measles...has long-documented health benefits...may help protect against chronic diseases, certain cancers and autoimmune disorders."

All this is consistent with Kennedy's pledge to "give infectious disease a rest for 8 years" and focus on chronic diseases, which he blames, in part, on vaccines.

And while measles continues to surge, so does H5N1, with alarming new developments. A strain found on 8 Canadian farms has a rare mutation that gives it resistance to the antiviral drug oseltamivir (tamiflu). It is believed that this mutation was derived from a low pathogenic strain of influenza, something that could have resulted from genetic reassortment during a coinfection with a human strain of influenza. cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza

Also, a new study (a not yet peer-reviewed, pre-print) suggests that highly pathogenic strains, like H5N1, shed in the feces of infected birds, could be spread through the wind. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

www.cidrap.umn.edu'Exceptionally rare' mutation on H5N1 virus in Canada tied to antiviral drug resistanceThe mutation doesn't appear to reduce viral fitness, as evidenced by its rapid spread, the authors say.