International Measles Resurgence in America (2025)

44nutman said:
Media turned them Anti-Vax for clicks.
When you have to explain to the dumb fuck from High School that there is not harmful Mercury in vaccines because he likes to post twitter posts from SuperPatriotIDontKneel69 on Facebook, you then realize how easy it is to influence people.
You explain its a mercury based compound, then they say hey Mercury kills, open your eyes. Then you are like so does Chlorine, so you must not use salt either, then they tell you keep getting vaccines and enjoy dying early.
It's exhausting arguing with people who think some rando on Twitter, facts supersede actual science.
I have always said too bad I have morals, because I could absolutely bank selling rage porn to MAGA idiots.
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- A guy that studied with me, he even worked as a pharm representative, but always posts antivax conspirations. I dont know if he still works in this field. But dude became a real\ nutjob.
 
Nameless Ghoul said:
This happened 10-15 years ago with mumps, and at the time it was largely attributed to people coming into the country who didn't get the MMR. Given the large number of border crossings the last decade I'm inclined to think that's also what is going on here.
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This outbreak is 100% on natives. A Mennonite colony. Every one of them unvaccinated. I know you guys love to villainize the "others", but this outbreak happened because of dipshit white people that don't know how to wash their ass right.
 
Crazy Source said:
This outbreak is 100% on natives. A Mennonite colony. Every one of them unvaccinated. I know you guys love to villainize the "others", but this outbreak happened because of dipshit white people that don't know how to wash their ass right.
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Crazy Source said:
This outbreak is 100% on natives. A Mennonite colony. Every one of them unvaccinated. I know you guys love to villainize the "others", but this outbreak happened because of dipshit white people that don't know how to wash their ass right.
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Sure Jan. Also, a Mennonite colony is hardly a reflection of how the way the rest of the country is.
 

Saw this article this morning ~​

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This 1 Measles Graph Obliterates the RFK-Hating Media's Fear-Mongering​


This 1 Measles Graph Obliterates the RFK-Hating Media’s Fear-Mongering

Looking at a 10-year rolling average of measles cases shows you that there's no "comeback" happening, despite the outbreak.
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If you’ve turned on the late local news or your favorite liberal-leaning cable outlet these last few weeks, you’ve heard the story: There’s a measles outbreak that started in Texas.

You’ve also probably heard the subtext: President Donald Trump chose a noted vaccine skeptic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to run the Department of Health and Human Services. The two are supposed to be connected.

Never mind the fact that RFK Jr. has called for children to be vaccinated against measles after the outbreak began, saying in a media release that “[v]accines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.”

Never mind, too, that out of 146 confirmed cases since late January, there’s been only one confirmed death — tragic, yes, but the first death in 10 years in the country.

Instead, Kevin Bass — an academic with a strong following on social media — destroyed the narrative of the measles outbreak being an emergency of significant proportions that Americans have to start going all Chicken Little about.

First, the facts, from Science Alert: “On Feb. 26, 2025, Texas health officials announced the death of a child in a measles outbreak – the first measles death in the United States since 2015.

“The outbreak was first identified in early February in Gaines County, Texas, where just 82% of kindergartners are vaccinated against measles, compared with 93% on average across the country.”

The article went on to note that “there have been occasional minor flare-ups” since the first commercially available measles vaccine came on the market in 1963, “usually brought in by international travelers, but by and large, measles outbreaks have been rare.” Pay attention to that fact.

The article went on to say that “the vast majority of people falling ill are unvaccinated.” This is technically untrue, according to HHS: “The DSHS reports that 79 of the confirmed cases involved individuals who had not received the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, while 62 cases had unknown vaccine status. At least five had received an MMR vaccine.” [Emphasis ours.]

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There could be a number of reasons why someone had unknown vaccine status, which we’ll go over in a second. That fact is not, however, unconnected to the first fact I drew your attention to. Do keep both in mind.

So clearly, you come away from this thinking that this is all the work of treacherous anti-vaxxers — and, by extension, RFK Jr. Now, granted, RFK Jr. was a bit of an anti-vaccine crank — but he wasn’t nominated for that fact, or the fact that he was a blind squirrel finding a nut with the efficacy of the COVID vaccine mandates, but because he had the temerity to challenge the Biden administration and has a wider health agenda that involves pushing back on big pharma.

Before this, “anti-vaxxers” were mostly yoga teachers and people who bought former Playboy model/MTV host Jenny McCarthy’s spiel about vaccines causing autism, generally not a conservative bunch. Back then, the Suburu owners of America were OK with these folks. But, as Bass pointed out, while we got to the point in the 2000s when there were about 80 cases of measles reported every year in the United States, we’re now up to about 240 — and have been there for a while.

More importantly, though, looking at a 10-year rolling average of measles cases shows you that there’s no “comeback” happening, despite the outbreak.


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And there’s more reason not to panic, as he pointed out:







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In other words, there’s no correlation between peak anti-vaxxerism and new peaks in measles cases or worse outcomes. So what could be driving this?

Note Science Alert telling us that “international travel” is correlated with measles outbreaks. Note, too, that 62 of the cases in the current outbreak “had unknown vaccine status.” Why might that be? In a border state? In the wake of a border crisis?

Hmm. What are the odds? And remember, it was fine for illegal immigrants to be unvaccinated during the Biden administration — but you had to get the COVID shot, at least until the courts intervened.

Of course, this isn’t to say that they acquired measles south of the border and it was dormant until now, although we don’t know how many new arrivals there are in the epicenter of the outbreak and we don’t know why the vaccination status is unknown — but it’s entirely possible this was driven by illegal immigration and not anti-vaccination sentiment.

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The point is, there are plenty of ways to look at the data, not just through the lens of fear and loathing for RFK Jr. It’s helpful to push that storyline, though. It’s thoroughly unhelpful in almost every other way, but there you have our modern media, ladies and gentlemen.

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Was there really a measles death in Texas?

Was there really a measles death in Texas?

In a tragic and deeply concerning turn of events surrounding a measles outbreak in Texas, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) revealed the truth about a child’s tragic death at a Lubbock, Texas hospital. Journalists not only failed...
www.americanthinker.com www.americanthinker.com

In a tragic and deeply concerning turn of events surrounding a measles outbreak in Texas, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) revealed the truth about a child’s tragic death at a Lubbock, Texas hospital. Journalists not only failed to properly investigate the case, but instead engaged in fear-mongering and speculation, resulting in a narrative contrary to the facts of her death.



Most news outlets reported that the child died from measles or complications associated with the viral illness. These same media outlets further speculated that the girl’s death was due to the fact that she “was not vaccinated,” with particular emphasis placed on her Mennonite background, Mennonites being a community allegedly known for being “under-immunized or partially immunized.”

One example of such reporting came from NBC News. Rather than conducting an in-depth investigation, NBC News reported that the 6-year-old girl was the first child to “die of measles in two decades,” framing her death as a consequence of the “anti-vaccine movement ... turning the girl and her family into propaganda, an emotional plank in the misguided argument that vaccines are more dangerous than the illnesses they prevent.”



To help allay fears and clarify the situation, the parents of the deceased child granted CHD access to their daughter’s medical records. These documents revealed that although the child had contracted measles, the disease itself was not the cause of her death. Renowned physician Pierre Kory, M.D. examined the documents, putting to bed the widely reported cause of death.

In a March 19 CHD interview with CHD.TV host Polly Tommey, Dr. Kory, along with other medical experts Brian Hooker and Ben Edwards, provided a significantly different account, calling out a series of catastrophic failures by the hospital’s medical team. Medical error has been recognized as one of the leading causes of death in the U.S.



Kory lamented that the media’s portrayal of the girl’s death as an inevitable consequence of the measles virus is not only misleading, but also overlooks the critical role that medical mismanagement played in this case. Rather, it was the failure to recognize and treat the secondary infection that led to the child’s rapid decline, something that could have been avoided had the medical team followed established guidelines for treating complications associated with viral illnesses.

The child’s worsening condition was primarily due to a “grievous” medical error. Kory found that the hospital failed to administer the appropriate antibiotics at the correct time, allowing an untreated infection to spiral into shock, ultimately leading to the child’s death.






In his interview, Dr. Kory outlined the series of events that led to the tragic outcome:

I’ve done medical case reviews for malpractice lawyers for a good part of my career and this case was tragic — and really had nothing, I shouldn’t say nothing to do with measles, but she did not die of measles by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, she died of pneumonia. But it gets worse than that, because she died of a medical error, and that error was a completely inappropriate antibiotic. It was an insufficient antibiotic.
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Dr. Kory further explained that the child died of mycoplasma, a common organism found in community-acquired infections. He expressed his frustration, stating:

Mycoplasma is extremely common, and this case is infuriating because the child died from receiving an inappropriate antibiotic. It’s in every guideline for infectious disease that for a hospitalized patient, you need to administer two antibiotics — one from the beta-lactam class (like penicillin or cephalosporins), which they did correctly, but you must also pair it with an antibiotic from a different class, such as a macrolide or quinolone. They did neither of these things.






Kory continued:

And the tragedy is that mycoplasma is an organism that doesn’t have a cell wall. Penicillins and cephalosporins work by disrupting the organism’s cell wall. But if you don’t have a cell wall, you need a different mechanistic antibiotic, which is azithromycin, which interrupts the protein synthesis and messes with the formation of proteins in the ribosome. ... You put them on two antibiotics to cover all the possibilities.

The hospital also allegedly failed to follow some of the required standards for treatment with antibiotics, a failure that led to complications and death. Kory continued,

When I order that antibiotic, that antibiotic has standards. It should arrive within at least two hours, and from my review of the records, the antibiotic was ordered at approximately 11:00 P.M., and as far as I can tell, it was not administered until 9:00 A.M. the next morning. It was actually written to start the next day.

So not only did you have several days’ delay of decline without the appropriate antibiotic, but then when they realized that they were missing the appropriate antibiotic, it took them, as far as I can tell, 10 hours to administer it. And by that time, she was already on a ventilator. And approximately 24 hours later, actually less than 24 hours later, she died rather catastrophically because she was declining.
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“She was in a state of shock.” Kory added, “and she needed medicines to maintain her blood pressure. Suddenly her blood pressure crashed, and she arrested. That kind of suddenness in an infection suggests some other cardiac event. In a child like that, with that amount of inflammation, infection, and disturbances in the bloodstream, I can only surmise that she died of a catastrophic pulmonary embolism. But by the time that happened, there’s not a lot you can do.”

Brian Hooker, CHD’s chief scientific officer, also reviewed the records, confirming Kory’s findings. He shared the following timeline of the girl’s tragic death:

We know that the little girl that passed away, she actually was recovering from the measles. Her measles rash was fading. She had seen a pediatrician beforehand who gave her cough syrup and recommended Tylenol. But after the rash was fading, she was having problems with a cough and was breathing.

Then the parents took her into the E.R. They took her into the E.R. on a Saturday night and saw a resident there who gave the little girl antibiotics. About two and a half days later, she was not progressing, she was getting worse, and she ended up in ICU, and then, about 36 hours later, then she died.
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Renard said:
I realize that a lot of people are slow learners that haven't grown from the Covid experience, even though the controllers truly tipped their hand during that. For people that haven't fully figured things out yet, the RFK jr. thing is about bringing you back into the fold. The Covid operation was very forceful and as a result severely damaged the credibility of the system. Now they have to find a way to repair it and get you buying into it again. So you appoint RFK (controlled opposition) to the post, and you heavily mediatize how disastrous his policies are. Oh my God there are outbreaks everywhere; the anti-vaxxers were wrong, the consensus reality must be right. The Covid vaccines were just too rushed, it was simply some random incompetence, but the vaccine paradigm is fundamentally correct. If they get you there, they've got you. You're ready to be scammed again, like the whole thing never happened.
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lol
 
Beechwood said:
Was there really a measles death in Texas?

Was there really a measles death in Texas?

In a tragic and deeply concerning turn of events surrounding a measles outbreak in Texas, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) revealed the truth about a child’s tragic death at a Lubbock, Texas hospital. Journalists not only failed...
www.americanthinker.com www.americanthinker.com

In a tragic and deeply concerning turn of events surrounding a measles outbreak in Texas, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) revealed the truth about a child’s tragic death at a Lubbock, Texas hospital. Journalists not only failed to properly investigate the case, but instead engaged in fear-mongering and speculation, resulting in a narrative contrary to the facts of her death.



Most news outlets reported that the child died from measles or complications associated with the viral illness. These same media outlets further speculated that the girl’s death was due to the fact that she “was not vaccinated,” with particular emphasis placed on her Mennonite background, Mennonites being a community allegedly known for being “under-immunized or partially immunized.”

One example of such reporting came from NBC News. Rather than conducting an in-depth investigation, NBC News reported that the 6-year-old girl was the first child to “die of measles in two decades,” framing her death as a consequence of the “anti-vaccine movement ... turning the girl and her family into propaganda, an emotional plank in the misguided argument that vaccines are more dangerous than the illnesses they prevent.”



To help allay fears and clarify the situation, the parents of the deceased child granted CHD access to their daughter’s medical records. These documents revealed that although the child had contracted measles, the disease itself was not the cause of her death. Renowned physician Pierre Kory, M.D. examined the documents, putting to bed the widely reported cause of death.

In a March 19 CHD interview with CHD.TV host Polly Tommey, Dr. Kory, along with other medical experts Brian Hooker and Ben Edwards, provided a significantly different account, calling out a series of catastrophic failures by the hospital’s medical team. Medical error has been recognized as one of the leading causes of death in the U.S.



Kory lamented that the media’s portrayal of the girl’s death as an inevitable consequence of the measles virus is not only misleading, but also overlooks the critical role that medical mismanagement played in this case. Rather, it was the failure to recognize and treat the secondary infection that led to the child’s rapid decline, something that could have been avoided had the medical team followed established guidelines for treating complications associated with viral illnesses.

The child’s worsening condition was primarily due to a “grievous” medical error. Kory found that the hospital failed to administer the appropriate antibiotics at the correct time, allowing an untreated infection to spiral into shock, ultimately leading to the child’s death.






In his interview, Dr. Kory outlined the series of events that led to the tragic outcome:


Dr. Kory further explained that the child died of mycoplasma, a common organism found in community-acquired infections. He expressed his frustration, stating:

Mycoplasma is extremely common, and this case is infuriating because the child died from receiving an inappropriate antibiotic. It’s in every guideline for infectious disease that for a hospitalized patient, you need to administer two antibiotics — one from the beta-lactam class (like penicillin or cephalosporins), which they did correctly, but you must also pair it with an antibiotic from a different class, such as a macrolide or quinolone. They did neither of these things.






Kory continued:

And the tragedy is that mycoplasma is an organism that doesn’t have a cell wall. Penicillins and cephalosporins work by disrupting the organism’s cell wall. But if you don’t have a cell wall, you need a different mechanistic antibiotic, which is azithromycin, which interrupts the protein synthesis and messes with the formation of proteins in the ribosome. ... You put them on two antibiotics to cover all the possibilities.

The hospital also allegedly failed to follow some of the required standards for treatment with antibiotics, a failure that led to complications and death. Kory continued,


“She was in a state of shock.” Kory added, “and she needed medicines to maintain her blood pressure. Suddenly her blood pressure crashed, and she arrested. That kind of suddenness in an infection suggests some other cardiac event. In a child like that, with that amount of inflammation, infection, and disturbances in the bloodstream, I can only surmise that she died of a catastrophic pulmonary embolism. But by the time that happened, there’s not a lot you can do.”

Brian Hooker, CHD’s chief scientific officer, also reviewed the records, confirming Kory’s findings. He shared the following timeline of the girl’s tragic death:
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People don’t care. It was measles!!!
 
BFoe said:
You and me both. I don’t have faith in the US either, mainly because so many of my fellow Americans have fallen for this shit. I don’t plan on retiring here, and if I was in a career where working and living overseas was an option I’d seriously be looking into it.
And not just because of Trump—the right wing religious zealots, anti-vax weirdos and dumb CTers have just gotten so much power that I don’t want to spend the rest of my life fighting with them, or spending half my remaining life (or more) suffering every time they take power. But we’re also seeing this right wing style of authoritarianism rising in various countries throughout the world. Scary and sad time.
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