We were warned, even if by an original work of fiction...
"Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth."
Newborn babies have been exposed to measles at a Texas hospital and are receiving antibodies to protect them, NBC reports. The virus was brought into the University Medical Center Children's Hospital by a mother in labor — doctors didn't realize until after her admission that she was infected, and it's unclear when she tested positive. The immunoglobulin injections have been given to babies as young as three days old. A 2021 study found this therapy is highly effective in protecting exposed newborns who are too young to be vaccinated. Emergency masking procedures have also been implemented.
The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.
"Cancer vaccines weren’t a proper field of research before the pandemic. There was nothing. Apart from one exception, pretty much every clinical trial had failed. With the pandemic, however, we proved that mRNA vaccines were possible.
mRNA cancer vaccines work by giving the body instructions to make a harmless piece of a cancer-related protein. This trains the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells carrying that protein. Think of it like a training manual for security guards. The vaccine gives the immune system a guide on what cancer looks like, so it knows exactly who to watch for and remove.
Going from mRNA Covid vaccines to mRNA cancer vaccines is straightforward: same fridges, same protocol, same drug, just a different patient.
In the current trials, we do a biopsy of the patient, sequence the tissue, send it to the pharmaceutical company, and they design a personalized vaccine that’s bespoke to that patient’s cancer. That vaccine is not suitable for anyone else. It’s like science fiction.
The UK was ready. We had fridges and we had world-class manufacturing and research facilities. During the pandemic, we had proven we could open and deliver clinical trials fast. Also, the UK had established a genomic global lead with Genomics England and the 100,000 Genome Project. All doctors and nurses in this country are trained in genomics.
So the UK government signed two partnerships: one with BioNTech to provide 10,000 patients with access to personalized cancer treatments by 2030, and a 10-year investment with Moderna in an innovation and technology center with capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines. The stars were aligned.
For many years, we believed that research is inherently slow. It used to take 20 years to get a drug to market. Most cancer patients, unfortunately, will succumb by the time a drug gets to market. We showed the world that it could be done in a year if you modernize your process, run parts of the process in parallel, and use digital tools.
We have a trial to stop skin cancer coming back after you cut it out. It’s now completed. We over-recruited again, just like every single one of the trials that we ran, and the trial finished one year ahead of schedule. That’s completely unheard of in cancer trials because they normally run over-long.
What will happen now is that, over the next six to 12 months, we will monitor the people in the trial and work out if there’s a difference between the people who took the cancer vaccine and the ones who didn’t. We’re hoping to have results by the end of the year or beginning of 2026. If it’s successful, we will have invented the first approved personalized mRNA vaccine, within only five years of the first licensed mRNA vaccine for Covid. That’s pretty impressive."
- Dr. Lennard Lee, UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford
https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-lennard-lee-cancer-vaccines/
“'What is the cure for measles?' [RFKJr.] told an audience in 2021 at an Amish country fair in Pennsylvania. 'Chicken soup and vitamin A.'"
~ Darius Tahir
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #vaccination #healthcare #measles #science #medicine #disinformation #nonsense #ChickenSoup #VitaminA
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Every dark cloud has a silver lining, after all. Look on the sunny side of life.
And none of these hazards compare with the gruesome damage any vaccination does.
People in the pre-modern world practicing "primitive" medicine had better instincts about all of this than we science-addled folks today have, right?
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #vaccination #healthcare #measles #science #medicine #disinformation #nonsense
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Besides, getting measles isn't the worst thing that can happen to a child. Only 1 to 3 in 1,000 die of measles. And those who die must not have been meant to live; they lacked natural strength and were not fed and exercised properly.
For children who survive measles, the worst that can happen is that they go blind — but at least, they'll have their lives, even if they can no longer see.
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #vaccination #healthcare #measles #science #medicine #disinformation #nonsense
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I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE THINK WE NEED VACCINES
Wearing asafoedita in a bag around the neck keeps measles at bay. It's a sure preventative.
If you think you need extra protection, sip some water from a holy well while walking widdershins around it and reciting the Lord's prayer backwards.
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #vaccination #healthcare #measles #science #medicine #disinformation #nonsense
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Photo of child with day-four measles rash is by CDC/NIP/Barbara Rice, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles#/media/File:RougeoleDP.jpg
At least this time #Bezos bucked a #government official, #rfkjr, & promoted #measles #vaccination.
Or maybe he wasn't looking.
Either way this is serious & we all need to be vigilant since the #usgovernment is not.
#getvaccinated for you, for someone you love or maybe just someone you've never met.
Dear #MAGA folk asking #wwjd. He'd get vaccinated & #isolate if exposed to protect "the least of these". You should too. What? Jesus wouldn't get sick causes he's God? You're not God.
"...Pharmacies at H-E-B, the grocery chain, in Austin are now limiting MMR vaccines to those most at risk, including people born before 1989 who may have only received one dose...."
(Hey, that was me until yesterday! Whoohoo, ahead of the curve!)
The #CDC’s move comes amid one of the largest #measles outbreaks the US has seen in the past decade, with >150 cases & 2 deaths in #Texas & #NewMexico. The outbreak has been fueled by declining #vaccination rates in parts of the #UnitedStates where parents have been falsely persuaded that such shots do more harm than good.
"Medical freedom" should be changed to "stupidity"
AP: Mennonites, West Texans at center of measles outbreak choose medical freedom over vaccine mandates
Essais cliniques pour un vaccin intranasal contre le covid, par un groupe français (financé essentiellement sur crédits INSERM)
Ils recherchent des volontaires en bonne santé (pas mal de critères voir : https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06821126#contacts-and-locations)
Lieux :
#Dijon, #Lyon, #Paris, Saint Priest en Jarez (#SaintEtienne), #Tours
Il faut aussi s'engager à prendre des mesures de précaution (masque) pendant l'étude.
un article plus général : https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/28/exciting-news-from-europe-and-roadblocks-in-the-us-nextgen-covid-vax-update-26/
It is all a little different if they are American deaths.... (or in this case one unfortunate person)
Kennedy Fuckwittery
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-falsely-denied-his-connection-to-a-deadly-measles-outbreak-in-samoa/
Kenedy backtracking
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-health-department
Ugh. I just had to update this article to report that one unvaccinated child has now died of measles in this outbreak.
Measles is preventable with the safe and effective MMR vaccine.
#measles #infection #outbreak #USA #Texas #news #science #health #vaccination #vaccine #MMR
https://www.labroots.com/trending/microbiology/28601/texas-measles-outbreak-widens-nearly-100
#NewMexico has also reported an #outbreak, w/ 9 cases in Lea County, in the southeastern part of the state, on the #Texas border. 4 of those cases are #children…, all of whom are #unvaccinated, acc/to Robert Nott, a spox for the NM Dept of Health. None of the cases in NM have led to hospitalizations.
The outbreak comes amid growing concerns among #PublicHealth experts about declining #vaccination rates & the confirmation of #RFKJr, a prominent #vaccine skeptic, as the nation’s #health secy.
The officials did not release further info, but said that a news conference was planned for Wed afternoon….
At least 124 cases of #measles have been identified in #Texas since late Jan, mostly among #children & teenagers who are either #unvaccinated or whose #vaccination status was unknown, TX #health ofcls say. 18 have been hospitalized.
#RFKJr you 
#Unvaccinated #Child Dies of #Measles in #Texas, Officials Say
At least 124 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children & teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose #vaccination status is unknown, officials say.
#AntiVaxxers #PublicHealth #health #medicine #science #disease #GetVaccinated #vaccines #USpol #Trump #HHS #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/texas-measles-outbreak-death.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=C15BA9BB-F0AD-4601-8606-72C02900E565
"Meanwhile, RFK Jr., who was confirmed last week as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), appeared in Texas on Tuesday. He did not address the burgeoning measles crisis. Instead, he continued his anti-vaccine advocacy, falsely suggesting that childhood vaccines like MMR may be linked to chronic illnesses."
#measles #Texas #Republicans #vaccination #vaccines #RFKJr #antivax #PublicHealth #healthcare #epidemics #disinformation
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