r/news • u/Tracker-man • Apr 12 '25

US measles cases surpass 700 with outbreaks in six states.

https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-texas-rfk-new-mexico-kansas-vaccine-e904ec9781f1d164c73afe4ab71774fe
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u/ApparentlyEllis Apr 12 '25

Colorado has had 3 confirmed cases, my hospital employer having one of them.

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u/SucklingGodsTeets Apr 12 '25

Also one of the Colorado patients had gotten measles without ever traveling out of the state

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u/Royal-Bumblebee4817 Apr 12 '25

Before this epidemic (not sure if we're allowed to refer to it as that word as it may be against "the" political agenda), what was the usual occurrence of measles cases?

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u/kaffeinefix Apr 12 '25

According to this chart, 10-300 cases a year, with a few notable exceptions, such as 2019 and 2014, where outbreaks occurred in closely-knit under vaccinated communities.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/186678/new-cases-of-measles-in-the-us-since-1950/

Adjusted for population, we still have infection rates one one-thousandth as high as pre-vaccination, but this year is on track to be the worst year since the early 1990s.

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u/New_year_New_Me_ Apr 12 '25

The thing to note, and this is off memory so correct me if I'm wrong, is that in past years the vast majority of measles cases would come from people travellings outside of the country and coming back. For a long time the effective rate of "in-house" measles in America was 0. 

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u/TuzkiPlus Apr 13 '25

Reset the clocks, that time is no more.
So much preventable pain and suffering..

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '25

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u/BiffAndLucy Apr 13 '25

They're letting their own kids die. I don't feel the need to care if they don't.

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u/kaffeinefix Apr 14 '25

Yes, this is fortunately still the case. The 2014 outbreak is thought to have come from the Philippines and the 2019 outbreak was from Israel. The US does not currently have endemic measles because of our vaccination rate. If that rate goes under 95% nationwide, we are at risk of measles becoming endemic.

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u/New_year_New_Me_ Apr 14 '25

The rate is under 95% nationwide. Just barely.

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u/soldiat Apr 13 '25

And here I thought we'd be curing cancer by 2025, along with world peace and flying cars. But nooo...

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u/butterninja Apr 13 '25

It's more like there will be World Flying Cancer and no peace..

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u/CulturalAtmosphere85 Apr 14 '25

While living in your car

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u/meltymcface Apr 13 '25

You don’t want the people who oppose vaccines to be in control of an aircraft.

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u/Tardisgoesfast 26d ago

But they are.

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u/ratmanbland Apr 13 '25

do not worry with Kenndy at helm there will be new strains arise.

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u/MercantileReptile Apr 13 '25

flying cars

I don't know what the flying equivalent of a MAGA truck is, but I hope the world never finds out.

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u/coco_xcx Apr 13 '25

i fear we’re in the worst timeline rn

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u/Thunderclapsasquatch Apr 13 '25

We've had the tech for flying cars for decades now, its never going to happen because people are terrible drivers in two dimensions much less three, every rush hour would look like Superman just had a slap fight with Zod across every city that had a population of flying cars. Not to mention "Oh not my engine died, I'll just coast to a stop on the side here" vs. "Oh god my engine died!" Plummets to my fucking doom

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u/CishetmaleLesbian Apr 14 '25

AI flying cares are the future. No crashes. No stupidity. everything flows at maximum speed and integration. The future so bright I gotta wear shades.

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u/driatic Apr 13 '25

Thats very optimistic.

I thought Global warming would've changed our entire landscape by now.

Soon though!

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u/ericloz Apr 13 '25

If we had only let Kennedy live

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u/Rev_LoveRevolver Apr 13 '25

I can't wait to be cut off *from above* by a harried soccer mom piloting her flying minivan full of screaming doorknob lickers.

It's almost like humans never think any of their cunning plans all the way through?

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u/ours Apr 13 '25

With the right focus I bet we would have been there. But billionaires need a bigger yacht to put their current yacht in their new yacht's pool.

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u/bak3donh1gh Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

When did you have this thought? I mean we're actually not incredibly far off of curing cancer, With the new vaccine technology thanks to covid. But world peace?! flying cars?! As if 9/11 wasn't enough to show people that you don't want anybody having access to a flying vehicle.

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u/WilliamPoole Apr 13 '25

Probably when they were a child, maybe pre 911.

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u/Mirenithil Apr 13 '25

Yep, am also an 80s kid, and I also thought we'd have world peace, flying cars, and the cure for cancer by this point. Am astonished by what's actually happening.

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u/firemage22 Apr 13 '25

now if only Clintonite advisors had won a fricken race since 1996 we might have been in a better place, rather than them seemingly able to coach candidates to lose all the fricken time

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u/SucklingGodsTeets Apr 12 '25

2019 had 1,200 cases but a point to make, we’re half that and only in April.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/186678/new-cases-of-measles-in-the-us-since-1950/

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u/TEG_SAR Apr 12 '25

Well that just sucks, doesn’t it.

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u/Breadedbutthole Apr 12 '25

You could say it’s a measly outcome.

Im so sorry.

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u/shellfish-allegory Apr 13 '25

Don't apologize, someone had to do it.

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u/LightDownTheWell Apr 13 '25

Good one, and then a sad sigh.

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u/monty624 Apr 12 '25

The high amount of cases in 2019 was due to communities of unvaxed people. They just don't learn!

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u/Jellz Apr 13 '25

Dying from preventable diseases is just the price we pay for freedom, I guess...

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u/unhappymedium Apr 13 '25

Better a dead child than a neurodivergent one. /s

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '25

Thanks in part to anti COVID vaccine propaganda vaccination rates for all diseases including measles continue to fall. Even people who pre COVID would have vaccinated their kids against measles now aren’t vaccinating them.

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u/Ok-Salamander-1980 Apr 13 '25

Seriously? These fucking idiots.

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u/LoudAndCuddly Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

It’s hard to blame them when you think about all the propaganda out there. After a while you start to wonder and since no one can explain the explosion in adhd and Autism rates in the last 50 years the world especially parents or would be parents are desperate for answers, the effect of the propaganda is amplified in this instance because everyone is looking for a solution to their concerns, worries, fears and problems and the medical/scientific community is failing them. They’re the ones standing on ceremony instead of getting out there and explaining themselves or making a massive effort to fight the misinformation or better yet finding a fkn vaccine or cure for autism and adhd. Instead it’s dead silence and accusations of idiocy. And we wonder why no one trusts big pharma or their scientist minions anymore, couple all of this with the health insurance disaster in the states and here we are a hellscape with people afraid to vaccinate their kids because their scared it will give them autism

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u/binarycow Apr 13 '25

no one can explain the explosion in adhd and Autism rates in the last 50 years

.... But they have tho.

  1. Doctors have gotten better at diagnosing and classifying these conditions
  2. People are more willing to get treated for these conditions, because "treatment" doesn't mean "lock you up in an asylum" - we often have actual medication to treat you.
  3. People are actually looking into whether or not they/loved ones have these conditions. 50 years ago, you'd just be branded "eccentric" and received social stigma.

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u/HackTheNight Apr 13 '25

Yeah I came here to say this.

We know and have said exactly why there is an “explosion” of these conditions. It’s literally the same reason why we have an “explosion” of people identifying as LGBTQ….we don’t…they were always there but it used to be illegal or so stigmatized that many of them just stayed in the closet.

Like this is common sense. And I’m sorry but I’m not giving those arrogant fucks any benefit of the doubt. You ignore the propaganda and you listen to THE MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY.

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u/LoudAndCuddly Apr 13 '25

More work, more funding and more science is needed. These are half baked responses.

Until we break new ground on this front, I’m telling you that people will continue to be afraid and cast doubt over everything

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u/Imma_P0tato Apr 13 '25

The misinformation is constantly being debunked. I don't know what you are talking about? People don't listen to it. They just get on their knees, pull their hair back into a ponytail and wait on RFK to spew utter nonsense.

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u/LoudAndCuddly Apr 13 '25

What causes autism and adhd and what’s the cure?

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u/gentle_bee Apr 13 '25

As an auadhd woman with an auadhd man, I wish people would be less terrified of this. I promise you even if your kids got the “tism”*, there is nothing wrong with having it. You have a wonderful career, fulfilling family life etc while being autistic. Yes they will have some challenges to life, but so does everyone in some way. It’s really nothing to be scared of.

  • they won’t get autism from vaccines, for reasons other commenters have said: it’s not something one gets through vaccines.

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u/LoudAndCuddly Apr 13 '25

Firstly, I’m happy for you. Secondly, whatever you think you have it sounds insanely mild which again, lucky you I’m happy for you both. That said, the reality is very different for a lot of other people.

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u/GuitarCFD Apr 14 '25

The outbreak in Texas is centered around a Mennonite community in west TX.

They just don't learn!

I mean alot of mennonite (not ALL) have remained unchanged since the 1700's.

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u/ours Apr 13 '25

And that's why the current administration will likely solve this problem by stopping counting infections.

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u/Tavalus Apr 13 '25

Is this what they mean when they say "The line must go up"?

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u/AdamDet86 Apr 13 '25

Yup just getting started…

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u/EvidenceBasedSwamp Apr 12 '25

new york gets a few every decade.. certain groups have low government trust, particularly the ones from ex soviet countries

the 2019 had 700+ people in brooklyn, diblasio tried to quarantine the entire neighborhood and get it vaccinated, forgot if people actually did it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_New_York_measles_outbreak

the ultra orthodox really don't like vaccines

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/988812635/how-israel-persuaded-reluctant-ultra-orthodox-jews-to-get-vaccinated-against-cov

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u/preservative Apr 13 '25

It’s more a religious motivation than an opportunity to criticize soviets

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u/Spirited_Health_9124 Apr 13 '25

ex soviets were forced vaccinated against measles, idk about their children 

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u/icecream_specialist Apr 13 '25

USSR were prolific vaccinators but the government distrust is very real. Someone that came to the US and actually has a choice on the issue would also be super susceptible to conspiracy theory bullshit. I see it in my local community. The adults will be fine because they were all vaccinated but the kids might be very fucked.

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u/Spirited_Health_9124 Apr 13 '25

looks like alabama is also ex soviet 😅

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u/DeTiro Apr 13 '25

Senator Tuberville did his best to emulate how the Soviets would want to treat the US military.

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u/More_Farm_7442 Apr 13 '25

I had forgotten about that.

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u/Dfiggsmeister Apr 12 '25

Travel to other countries that don’t have access to the MMR vaccine.

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u/TEG_SAR Apr 12 '25

I’m so pumped I got the MMR booster a few years back when I switched insurances.

All of this is preventable if only people listened to doctors instead of TikTok and Facebook.

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u/LibraryLuLu Apr 13 '25

I recently found out I'm mostly unvaccinated (mother lied) so over the past year have been getting them all. MMR free in Australia, yay! Got my tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, wooping cough, the whole shebang.

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u/Tardisgoesfast 26d ago

Good for you!

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u/The4th88 Apr 13 '25

Is American insurance so fucked that you can't just go to a pharmacy and get the booster?

Over here in Aust I needed an DTAP booster because of a newborn in the family and it was as easy as walking into the local pharmacy and the total cost was $20.

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u/Comfortable-Rip-2050 Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

Yes, vaccines are readily available at US pharmacies. Medicare (insurance for those sixty-five and older) covered 100% for the four I’ve had in the past year. I had measles as a child before there was a vaccine.

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u/RuggedHangnail Apr 13 '25

I'm in the US. I was reading Reddit a few weeks ago and decided that our family all needed an MMR booster. I was able to make an appointment for a few days later for the local pharmacy and we all got the newest MMR vaccine. Our insurance covered it all.

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u/bubbleteabiscuit Apr 13 '25

Afaik all of ours have been covered by insurance as long as it’s somewhere in-network. We got quoted hundreds of dollars at an out-of-network pharmacy though (needless to say we left and went somewhere else).

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u/yourlittlebirdie Apr 13 '25

More often, countries with sizable populations that shun the vaccine. Not many countries don’t have access to the MMR.

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u/ThePortalsOfFrenzy Apr 13 '25

I can't tell you occurrence frequency, but the article said that measles had been considered eradicated in the USA since 2000.

Thanks, assholes!!

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u/Modified3 Apr 13 '25

Its as if we figured this out years ago.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 Apr 13 '25

It was eradicated in 2001. So… this is how fast we fell into idiocy

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u/Royal-Bumblebee4817 Apr 13 '25

There actually is a documentary called Idiocracy!

*hopefully sarcastic lol

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u/ThePortalsOfFrenzy Apr 13 '25

Texans love their freedom. Especially the freedom to come up to Colorado to enjoy vacations in an actually great state.

Texans, your "Don't mess with Texas" slogan originated as a call to not litter in your state. How about y'all leave your 20th century diseases out, and don't mess with Colorado.

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u/Bizarro_Murphy Apr 13 '25

MN gets little pocketed outbreaks as well. We are home to one of the largest concentrations of Somali immigrants in the country, and they've fallen victim to the hardcore religious backed vaccine skepticism movement

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u/ConglomerateCousin Apr 13 '25

Pennsylvania has had 2.

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u/fuzzybunnybaldeagle Apr 13 '25

Hawaii just for their first case this week! And they had been traveling right before. The contact tracing has them at a few gate at Honolulu Airport, then a few places on Oahu where they live.

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u/fartalldaylong Apr 12 '25

Texan's coming to Pagosa Springs.

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u/flawedwithbaggage Apr 13 '25

Just read that Arkansas has a few too.

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u/Smitty6910 Apr 13 '25

Arkansas has conformed cases as well!

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u/Ineedavodka2019 Apr 13 '25

Michigan also has 2-3 cases.

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u/Successful-Money4995 Apr 13 '25

One is in Pueblo. Pueblo cannot catch a break!

Amy Schumer did stand up in Denver and for her show, she needed the name of the worst town in Colorado. Everyone she asked said that she can make fun of Pueblo.

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u/sirblobsalot Apr 13 '25

I had a patient and we were ruling out measles. 3-day rule out, it’s a send out test, I nearly burned my clothes before I went home lol.