The U.S. surpassed 2,000 measles cases this year for the first time since 1992 under the public health stewardship of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
CNN’s Jake Tapper had predicted this surge if Kennedy were to become the nation’s leading public health official.
The Centers for Disease Control reported that as of Dec. 23, the U.S. had 2,012 confirmed measles cases. Last year, the U.S. had just 285 confirmed cases.
Kennedy is a longtime anti-vaccine moron who claimed that a measles outbreak in West Texas was “not unusual.” The HHS secretary alleged that the disease, whose symptoms may include fever, coughing, and a blotchy rash, could be treated with Vitamin A, which, according to real doctors, is not a substitute for being vaccinated against the measles.
Shortly after the outbreak in West Texas, several children with measles needed to be treated for Vitamin A toxicity. The country has been turned by the shaman moron into a backward cesspool of unscientific beliefs, conspiracies and superstitions.
Kennedy was appointed in November 2024 by Trump as Secretary of HHS. The pick horrified virtually every public health official, and many informed educated people across the country. Only imbecile MAGA morons listened to RFK Jr. and now have to deal with the disastrous consquences on their children.
The US is not Kennedy's only victim of his shamanic voodoo bull---t. In 2019, a measles outbreak ravaged Samoa, where Kennedy had visited just months before. His nonprofit organization “helped spread misinformation that contributed to the decline in measles vaccination that preceded the lethal eruption.” Eighty-three people died in the outbreak. Trump should award him a medal for killing so many children, both overseas and here at home.
In May, the CDC said it was no longer recommending vaccination against Covid-19 for healthy kids and pregnant women. Later, Kennedy ordered the CDC to remove language from its website stating that vaccines do not cause autism. Kennedy has baselessly maintained this to be the case. The secretary has also enacted massive personnel and research cuts at HHS. Moreover, in one particularly embarrassing episode, a “Make America Healthy Again” report cited several nonexistent studies.
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Thanks to moron RFK Jr, Measles is now spreading across the US from the backward conservative state of Texas to Massachusetts and New Jersey:
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed that a visitor from Texas was diagnosed with measles after flying into the Boston Logan International Airport on Christmas Eve.
World’s most contagious virus detected at 2 major US airports amid peak holiday traffic
A traveler passing through Newark Liberty International Airport tested positive for measles – one of the world’s most infectious diseases – earlier this month, officials said.
The patient zero passenger was in terminals B and C on Dec. 12, according to a press release from the New Jersey Department of Health.
“Measles symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose, watery red eyes, and a rash that usually appears between three and five days after symptoms begin,” health officials warned in the release.
“The rash usually begins as flat red spots that appear on the face at the hairline and spread downward to the neck, torso, arms, legs and feet.”
The airborne virus can spread when someone coughs or sneezes – and lingers in the air for up to two hours after the infected person leaves the area.
Officials implored anyone who suspects they were exposed to the illness to call their health provider before visiting a medical care center or hospital.
“NJDOH is working in collaboration with local health officials on ongoing contact tracing and on efforts to notify people who might have been exposed and to identify additional exposures that may have occurred,” officials said in the release.
The NJDOH said that anyone who is not fully vaccinated or has not contracted measles in the past are at risk.
While measles is highly contagious, the infection produces decades-long immunity – but the two-dose vaccine offers lifelong immunity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This year, there have been 11 confirmed cases of measles in New Jersey, according to NJDOH.
A record 8.03 million travelers are expected to fly across America this holiday season, according to AAA.
Newark isn’t the only major airport to report detections of the viral disease during the holidays.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed that a visitor from Texas was diagnosed with measles after flying into the Boston Logan International Airport on Christmas Eve.
The traveler was on American Airlines Flight 2384, which departed from Dallas-Fort Worth, according to a release from the MDOPH.
As of Dec. 30, there have been 2,065 measles cases in the US in every state except Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina and West Virginia, according to the CDC.
The US previously touted its elimination of the virus 25 years ago. Declining vaccination rates killed the celebrated herd immunity – resulting in a three-decade high of measles cases.
