US Measles Cases Surpass 2,000, Highest in 30 Years: CDC
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/31/1335203/us-measles-cases-surpass-2000-highest-in-30-years-cdc
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> As of Dec. 23, a total of 2,012 cases have been reported in the U.S. Of those cases, 24 were reported among international visitors to the U.S.
[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-measles-cases-surpass-2000-highest-30-years/story?id=128747603
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Let's not forget that this has happened because people like you voted for a rapist and pedophile for President. One thing we can count on is that your "theory" will never be that you're to blame.
Heck of a job, Robbie (Score:2)
What's next, re-introducing smallpox?
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Perhaps they still keep some blankets at Mars-a-Lardo.
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Oh, I see a religious nut with a grudge has mod points. Tell me, dear ISIS brother, what's the reason for the disappearance of the smallpox and how it relates to the vaccination policies of the current government that you helped to get elected.
One more reason.. (Score:2)
> 24 were reported among international visitors to the U.S.
..to avoid visiting the USA.
It's bad for both mental and physical health (apart from the chance of lead poisoning).
Let's create some strict liability here (Score:5, Insightful)
Ideally an unvaccinated kid should not be allowed to attend public schools unless there is an overwhelming medical reason (known allergy in the child) for not being vaccinated. That particular boat seems to have left, so perhaps we need to see some cases where the parents of a child who is in the chain that leads to damage or death in another child is sued for the damages. This would only be just...
Re:Let's create some strict liability here (Score:5, Insightful)
You mean like it used to be until recently?
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It is incredibly difficult to prove just where the links of that chain led to, though. Such lawsuits have been filed but to date, there is apparently not a single one that has been successful. Sure, you may have a really damn good idea that UnVaxedBobby was the kid who infected your child, because UnVaxedBobby was the only positive case you know of - but the defense will argue "your child was out and about in the environment, walking through supermarkets, licking doorknobs, who knows where in the world they
One case needed to frighten the anti-vaxxers (Score:2)
It might be an extreme one: unvaxxed Billy bursts into immuno-compromised Johnnie's otherwise sterile hospital room without a facemask because he's his best friend. Johnnie dies of measles and Billy had it at the time. Once the story started to roll, it would send the message.
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Pretty sure this exact scenario has played out and _still_ not led to a victory in court. Hospitals are not completely sterile; they're not AMRIID isolation rooms. Infections do occur. Personnel move to and fro through them. Enough to create doubt.
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... Enough to create doubt.
This, however would be a civil case not a criminal one. Reasonable doubt is only the standard in criminal cases. In a civil case like this, the standard is the preponderance of evidence. That means that the jury is supposed to judge for whichever side is more likely; 51% is supposed to be enough.
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When you have people in government creating doubt about the effectiveness of vaccines in general, then those people in government are fully responsible for the drop in vaccination rates. The US government even has it in the preamble to the US Constitution..."...to promote the general welfare...", and that says government should be doing things to improve things for the overall population. While some doubt might be reasonable for NEW vaccines, the idea of vaccines overall has been proven to be a good thin
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You're not going to get any argument out of me. Last wellness visit when my son needed shots, the Dr. was kinda skating around language saying things like "Well, the general recommendation is ..." - it took me a bit to realize that I live in Indiana and she was not sure what kind of person she was talking to. So I cut through the whole thing by saying "Doctor, this is a factory fresh baby, he is on the factory maintenance schedule". She looked visibly relieved.
No one should be surprised (Score:5, Insightful)
When you have Republicans saying they want things to be like their were in the 50s, then put an anti-vaxxer in charge of the nation's top health agency, what would you expect?
Whooping cough cases are also seeing a similar increase as well as deaths.
Re:No one should be surprised (Score:5, Informative)
The spike happened in an area where the measles vaccination rate is low, which makes it easy to have an outbreak. The vaccination rate is low because there has been since September 1st, 2023 a broad "exemption" from vaccination due to reasons of religious-based willful ignorance:
> Since September 1, 2003, Texas law has allowed parents to exempt their children from school-required vaccines for reasons of conscience, which includes religious and philosophical beliefs. This is a much broader standard than states that only allow narrow medical exemptions.
So, it is the policy of the party of the current administration as practiced in one of the states that is best aligned with the raging idiocy of that administration emanating from its leaders, ratfuck jr. and donold j. trump.
But please tell us how it isn't the case.
> Health officials confirmed Tuesday that two dozen people have been identified with measles in Gaines County, Texas, which has one of the highest rates of vaccine exemptions in the entire state. All of the confirmed measles cases in the county involve unvaccinated residents, and nine patients have been hospitalized.
> "It is troubling, because this was completely preventable," Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins, told CBS News on Wednesday. "What we're seeing is, one of the places in Texas — it has the lowest vaccination rates, the highest school exemption rates from measles vaccination — having a measles outbreak, including hospitalizations of individuals who've been infected with measles."
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> When you have Republicans saying they want things to be like their were in the 50s, then put an anti-vaxxer in charge of the nation's top health agency, what would you expect?
> Whooping cough cases are also seeing a similar increase as well as deaths.
Posting AC becuz I've done modding in here. I really encourage people to get vaccine against whooping cough. After herd immunity went away, and my old vaccine lost its protection, I contracted it as an adult.
Damn, it was awful. The coughing fits start at the end of an exhale period, which makes for the whoop. I don't know why, but mine always started when I was by myself. Then I guess you might call it a near-near death experience - the world turns a weird dark brown as your vision starts going away. For
It gets better (Score:5, Informative)
Apparently vaccination rates are dropping by quite a bit: [1]https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
And parents will not know the extent of their stupidity because the CDC won't be collecting data like they did in the past. Immuno-compromised kids will lose.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2025/measles-vaccine-schools-outbreaks-public-health/
Re:It gets better (Score:5, Interesting)
When I came in for a vax a few weeks ago, my pharmacist said "you should get everything you can while it's still on the market... I advise you get [xyz] ASAP". So yeah my arm hurt like a mofo that day :)
Measles Are Great Again (Score:2)
sigh...
Measles are even greater in Canada and Mexico (Score:2, Troll)
From [1]Ten countries in the Americas report measles outbreaks in 2025 [paho.org] we can see that Mexico and Canada already had more cases back in August than the US does now at the end of the year despite them having much smaller populations than the US.
> Countries with the highest case numbers include Canada (4,548 cases), Mexico (3,911 cases), and the United States (1,356 cases).
I find it interesting that ABC chose not to mention this pertinent information, makes me wonder what other news they're suppressing.
[1] https://www.paho.org/en/news/15-8-2025-ten-countries-americas-report-measles-outbreaks-2025
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Well, it's a US news outlet, and US news reporting does tend to be rather parochial; I think it is more myopia than new suppression. The news here is the huge leap up in cases in the USA but I'm sure the RFK will be upset that you're not #1 yet.
It's worth noting that there are some strong similarities between the US and Canadian outbreaks in 2025. Both started in Mennonite communities with very low vaccination rates and spread through close community contact. The Canadian outbreak appears to have started
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Maybe, but based on the responses seen here on Slashdot, ABC's coverage is fanning a political conflict despite the US fairing significantly better than our immediate neighbors during the current [1]global outbreak of measles. [cdc.gov]
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/global-measles-vaccination/data-research/global-measles-outbreaks/index.html
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And the other half are unvaccinated Americans who visit abroad and bring it back, infecting whole communities.
Re: Brought in from visitors (Score:2)
^â^
Canada seems to be way up, too, eh? (Score:2)
[1]https://health-infobase.canada... [canada.ca]
[1] https://health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rubella/
No longer eradicated (Score:2)
Likely in the new year, the CDC and WHO will remove the US from the list of countries that have "eradicated" measles.
I'm tired of winning (Score:4, Funny)
Remember when Trump said that we're going to win so much, we'll get tired of it? If this is winning, I'm well past tired of it.
Or when he pulled RFK Jr. from the nutso bush league, made him the face of federal health policy, and told him to "go wild on health"? Wild indeed.
Nothing compared to the 1990 when 27k reported (Score:1)
Which also happens to coincide (who knows maybe nothing) with the largest spike in immigrant influx. In 1989 to 1991, Immigration was even higher than the years between 1900 to 1910. And yes, I know the population was smaller back then, but the surrounding years to 1989 to 1991 didn't have anywhere near this spike.
While I do understand that anti-vaxxer children are probably overrepresented in this number, even if you ware vaccinated it will just lower the chances, not eliminate all cases. When we ramp up e
Why Does Anyone Even Care? (Score:2)
This falls under the "so what" category. Either you get yourself or your kids vaccinated or you don't. If you got vaccinated... Why do you care? You're not going to catch it.
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It's pointing out stupidity. We're making 19th century diseases great again!
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Most people care at least a little bit about others. But even if you're extremely self-centred and really only care about yourself, think that any strain on health services will increase insurance and healthcare costs for all of you fools.
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There are people who don't have a choice about being vaccinated, fuckwit.
This is the Republican party (Score:2)
We have made public health the political issue because the Republican party cannot govern and their political policies when they do manage to get one through hurt working americans. It's just the same trickle-down economics repackaged and guilded with gold from Trump. More like gold spray paint but you get the idea...
We have been conditioned not to talk about partisan politics so we all have to pretend this isn't a republican problem.
The Republican party does not have working economic or Health Car
Use the chinese method. (Score:3)
Jut suppress the statistics and pretend the problem does not exist.
Chinese method.
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The orange ape will get on it posthaste! If he can keep it together long enough...
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> Jut suppress the statistics and pretend the problem does not exist. Chinese method.
Nah, this is the US. We'll have some half-dead zombie make a public speech saying that these people just need to toughen up and that if we hadn't turned ourselves into giant wusses by taking vaccines this wouldn't be happening. You forgot America's number one rule, never let a tragedy go to waste.
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> Jut suppress the statistics and pretend the problem does not exist. Chinese method.
And endorsed by Trump in 2020.