A seventh case, the first in a child under age 5, follows the state’s controversial surgeon general’s decision to let parents decide whether to quarantine children or keep them in school.
The Florida measles outbreak is expanding. On Friday, health officials in Broward County confirmed a seventh case of the virus, a child under age 5.
The patient is the youngest so far to be infected in the outbreak, and the first to be identified outside of Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, near Fort Lauderdale.
It’s unknown what connection the youngest measles case has to the school, but the spread beyond school-age kids was expected.
Cases are “not going to stay contained just to that one school, not when a virus is this infectious,” said Dr. David Kimberlin, co-director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Reminder that Florida’s Surgeon General, hand-picked by DeSantis, is an anti-vaxxer.
And he’s telling parents of kids without measles vaccinations to send their kids to school during this outbreak.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/joseph-ladapo-florida-ron-desantis-measles
Anyone whose kid catches measles because of this should sue the surgeon general for malpractice. Maybe also drop a complaint to the medical board, see if they can get his medical license revoked.
If only we had vaccines for this.
Oh, wait.and then when it gets too hot down there, all of the snowbirds migrate out and start an insane summer spread for the rest of the continent
The vast majority of snowbirds would be vaccinated.
The antivax movement wasn’t as big when they were kids, they would have gotten their shots back then.
Mmr does wear off though. Some older Americans got titers drawn and showed they were no longer immune so they got a third shot.
Not sure what he acip recommendation on that is though.
If this continues (and given this dumbass surgeon general and the antivax movement it will), we might start getting recommendations to get your MMR checked after X years or even for everyone to get it checked.
Florida, Florida, Florida.
Mmm! Very stupid. Much wow.
Good luck!
I wouldnt be shocked if we’re at 50+ cases in 2 weeks.
Yep! Measles is sooooo contagious and takes a week or two to show symptoms.
50+ kids already have it now.
yep. exactly my point.
Anyone who didn’t go home and isolate immediately is probably already infected if they weren’t vaccinated
So people don’t vaccinate their kids, and then they don’t quarantine them when they are sick? What the fuck is broken in the US?
Society, maybe just empathy. A large percentage of the populace simply doesn’t care about anyone other than themselves.
I’m a victim of “chickenpox parties” from the 80s. Some parents are just stupid assholes that refuse to accept you don’t have to make the immune system a punching bag to make it stronger
Now I’m at a higher risk for severe shingles. Yay!! Thanks mom!
I mean, that was the recommendation at the time. Chickenpox can be deadly to adults, and it was considered best to expose children to it when it wasn’t life-threatening. This was well before there was a vaccine available, and letting your kid get the virus was basically like giving them an inoculation.
What’s bullshit is that you can’t get the shingles vaccine if you’re under 55 (in the US.)
Is it that you can’t, or insurance won’t cover it?
Idk about chicken pox, but I know you can’t get the RSV vaccine if you’re not elderly or in a very specific window of pregnancy. Like 34 to 36 weeks. My OB was out of it, I missed the window and then none of the pharmacies would give it to me at 37 weeks, even though my OB still recommended it.
The chicken pox vaccine was developed in Japan in 1974, but not available in the US until 1995.
That didn’t make it ok to have kids hang out with a sick kid so they’d also get sick 😐
Having chicken pox is considerably more painful as a teenager and complications are more likely as an adult. I could easily see a pediatrician recommending this to a mom before school started so her kids don’t miss any school.
It was during school and a pediatrician would never recommend something like this now lol. Plenty if medical professionals were against it at the time too. The vaccine was out by the time I was a teen. We could have waited it out.
I’m so sorry for the kids who are the victims of this insanity, and to some extent the victims of disinformation that created the situation even though they are dumb fucks. What a disaster. Children who aren’t vaccinated because of disinformation should be taken by CPS for medical neglect IMO.
I’m SO glad we got our whole family out of that shithole.
Hey on a side note I have no idea if I ever got my second shot as a kid. There is only a record of one shot and my mom can’t remember. I have always figured that with herd immunity one would be good enough. Seeing that herd immunity is now in question I am wondering if I might need to re-up. Any have any experience with this? One or two shots? I will ask the doc next time, but in the meantime let’s get some random inter-mation
Just let your GP know. I recently got a blood test done to figure out what I’ve been immunised against. Highly recommend.
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I am sure Jesus will protect them, don’t worry.
Eh well this is how it goes. People aren’t really all that intelligent and we operate mostly of emotion, or rationalization.
If you don’t vaccinate your kids against dangerous diseases, you’re a dummy. Vaccines are safe and needed to keep EVERYONE safe from outbreaks.
Frankly, vaccination shouldn’t even be up for debate. The science speaks for itself. It’s infuriating that there are people who endanger their own child and others based on a poor grasp of science and medicine.
Any of these kids vaccinated?
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Florida reaps what it sows. Hahahah Hahaha
