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US measles epidemic.

If it weren't for the fact that one of actors was much too young to act:

But maybe MAGA can accuse the mother of deliberately having contracted measles to provoke a postpartum 'abortion'.
What age was this infant?
 
The infant was unborn, fetal, when the infection occurred. The baby's mother was infected and passed it to her child.
 
The infant was unborn, fetal, when the infection occurred. The baby's mother was infected and passed it to her child.

The Subsequent Mrs. de Winter on bsky, Aug 29, 2026
If true that they were too young to be vaccinated then they died of measles because someone else wasn't vaccinated. Can you say, "herd immunity" Doc?
Aaron Rupar on bsky, Aug 29, 2026
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya defends measles on Fox News and condemns Gov. Shapiro for "playing this out over the airwaves for political purposes, just like what happened during covid. And this is why there's such deep distrust in public health."
With a short clip from Fox News, 1 min.
 
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For several reasons, the Pennsylvania measles outbreak is about to get much worse (Paul Offit on Substack, Aug 28, 2026)
Subsequently, we have learned that one of the two measles deaths was an infant who died shortly after birth due to splenic rupture. The coroner reported detecting measles virus in lung tissue. Given that congenital measles infection can cause splenic enlargement and thinning of the splenic capsule, it is likely that the child ruptured the spleen during birth.
 
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The point of herd immunity, and why the lack of it killed this baby, is that a few years ago pregnant mothers weren't encountering the virus at all, so their babies didn't die from it. Specifically for this baby, it was infected just before birth, and the physical stresses of birth ruptured its spleen.
 
The point of herd immunity, and why the lack of it killed this baby, is that a few years ago pregnant mothers weren't encountering the virus at all, so their babies didn't die from it. Specifically for this baby, it was infected just before birth, and the physical stresses of birth ruptured its spleen.
I get that. But RFK Jr. has little to do with that right now. Adults who didn't get vaccinated as kids didn't miss getting vaccinated because of RFK Jr. That herd immunity isn't missing because of anything that happened within the last two years.
 
I get that. But RFK Jr. has little to do with that right now. Adults who didn't get vaccinated as kids didn't miss getting vaccinated because of RFK Jr. That herd immunity isn't missing because of anything that happened within the last two years.
Sure, not him specifically (though he's been fighting for measles for decades, look at his trip to Samoa and the aftermath) but anti-vax in general has been targeting the MMR since Quackfield was paid to produce a study using twelve children to discredit the MMR in favor of his M-only vaccine in 1998. This child is what happens when humanity stops fighting its predators and lets them eat.
 
Every time this idiot mouths his nonsense, he contributes to declining vaccination uptake. He is a clear and present danger.
 
I get that. But RFK Jr. has little to do with that right now. Adults who didn't get vaccinated as kids didn't miss getting vaccinated because of RFK Jr. That herd immunity isn't missing because of anything that happened within the last two years.
Because it isn’t as if he has had a career and and organization dedicated to increasing vaccine hesitancy.
 

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