Measles Outbreak

[Anonymous]

Measles seems to have been brought here by the March for Life folks. Ave Maria students attended the march (and were hosted by St John’s Church in McLean)


https://www.npr.org/2026/02/08/nx-s1-5705972/measles-march-for-life-dc-reagan-national-union-station-metro

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Anonymous wrote:So when are we going to get the pile of bodies we were promised?

1 to 3 in 1000 children with measles die. Try as you might, you haven't been able to infect that many yet in this outbreak. There have been some child deaths already in overall cases, though.

Just imagine how much fun you'd have if you could ensure they were all unvaccinated! Are you betting on the numbers? What's the spread?

The rate was 1 in 1000 back in 1960. You guys really should update your numbers now and then, because a lots happened in the last 65 years. We don't have pockets of malnourished children like we did then, so the disease ends up being pretty mild.

The disease remains severe. What we have now is ECMO, ventilators, a whole lot of pharma, and the ability to crack a kid’s head open so his swollen brain has somewhere to go. If you don’t mind dropping a couple of million, we can save your kid, too. No guarantees about what he’s going to be like after, though.

+1 this person is very ignorant. 11% of the people diagnosed with measles in 2025 were hospitalized, more than 1/10. Three of these people who had measles died last year! In 2025, even with modern medical care you are talking about the fatality rate was still 1/760 last year.

Makes me so angry. These are needless deaths. Brought on by repudiation of one of the most amazing things science has ever produced because a conman wants to be president.

Most deaths in this country are arguably needless, but we give people the freedom to make the decisions that lead to their deaths or the deaths of others. We let any ole idiot purchase a 5,000 pound battering ram and drive it around a city, while carrying a military inspired weapon, a couple of pit-bulls roaming around the backseat while chugging the largest slurpee they could fit in a cup-holder. All of these things are far dumber decisions than passing on the measles vaccine and they produce far more deaths.

That's before you factor in the often ignored fact that vaccines are not risk free. You really should read the package inserts of the vaccines you advocate for. Let me show you a small portion of one:
Nervous System
Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) subacute sclerosing
panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS); acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM);
transverse myelitis; febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis;
polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia; syncope."

Hrmm, one of those looks familiar...

So how many kids do we have to give SSPE to, uh, save kids from SSPE?

You know it's more common with the viral infection than with the vaccine, right?

I do not, could you tell me what the rate is for the vaccine?

Either way thanks to the work up thread on the lethality of SSPE we can safely say the MMR vaccine is killing kids.

People are disgusted by you, and rightfully so. You are reviled.

The rate of SSPE after vaccination is roughly 0.7 to 1 per million doses, and it is thought to be connected to unrecognized pre-existing measles infection.

The risk from measles infection (without widespread vaccination, this is essentially 100%, because it is so contagious) is a rate of somewhere between 10-300 cases per million -- unless you are under 1 year old, where the rate goes up to about 1 in 600.

You are so contemptible.

So that’s 3.6 million kids a year times two doses, SSPE at .7 per million and 95% fatality rate gets roughly 5 deaths per year. Agreed?

Aren't you still arguing that complication rates are down with better nutrition (et al.), or are we still using the same standard complication rates as previously for both vaccination and infection?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Measles seems to have been brought here by the March for Life folks. Ave Maria students attended the march (and were hosted by St John’s Church in McLean)

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/08/nx-s1-5705972/measles-march-for-life-dc-reagan-national-union-station-metro

Way to teach your children to spread filthy contagious diseases.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly for Americans, many are going to learn some very stark lessons that will have lifelong repercussions.

Darwin's 'Natural Selection'

For the zillionth time, no.

It isn't just the innocent children of the parents who will be punished. It's babies under 12 months who are not old enough to be vaccinated. It is people undergoing chemo for treatable cancer. It is elderly people and people who are immune deficient. If it were just the stupid people, it would still be wrong to put their offspring at risk, but it isn't. There are a lot of victims here.

Then complain to your congresspersons. If you can find them.

What are you going on about? I call and write to my congressman at least once a week even though we agree on almost everything. What's your point again?

The point is that Congress has the power to impeach Kennedy and tell Trump that his next nominee needs to have expertise in public health. Though unpalatable to Congress, it actually is in the driver’s seat here.

Are you taunting or clueless? Republicans are either cult members or terrified. Even a handful of Republicans switched sides in the House (doubtful but possible), do you know how many would have to vote to reach 2/3 in Senate... like 20! With this bunch of spineless traitors, it isn't even worth talking about. They would rather watch children die of a totally preventable disease than challenge Trump. The Republicans are hopeless

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly for Americans, many are going to learn some very stark lessons that will have lifelong repercussions.

Darwin's 'Natural Selection'

For the zillionth time, no.

It isn't just the innocent children of the parents who will be punished. It's babies under 12 months who are not old enough to be vaccinated. It is people undergoing chemo for treatable cancer. It is elderly people and people who are immune deficient. If it were just the stupid people, it would still be wrong to put their offspring at risk, but it isn't. There are a lot of victims here.

Then complain to your congresspersons. If you can find them.

What are you going on about? I call and write to my congressman at least once a week even though we agree on almost everything. What's your point again?

The point is that Congress has the power to impeach Kennedy and tell Trump that his next nominee needs to have expertise in public health. Though unpalatable to Congress, it actually is in the driver’s seat here.

Are you taunting or clueless? Republicans are either cult members or terrified. Even a handful of Republicans switched sides in the House (doubtful but possible), do you know how many would have to vote to reach 2/3 in Senate... like 20! With this bunch of spineless traitors, it isn't even worth talking about. They would rather watch children die of a totally preventable disease than challenge Trump. The Republicans are hopeless

PP. You misunderstand. No expectation whatsoever that Congress will act. Point is it has the power and responsibility to clean up this mess starting today. Tired of people wringing their hands and saying nothing can be done to control Trump. Congress could.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Measles seems to have been brought here by the March for Life folks. Ave Maria students attended the march (and were hosted by St John’s Church in McLean)

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/08/nx-s1-5705972/measles-march-for-life-dc-reagan-national-union-station-metro

Lovely. Wish those so called "pro lifers" understood what measles does to pregnant women and babies too young to be vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:So when are we going to get the pile of bodies we were promised?

1 to 3 in 1000 children with measles die. Try as you might, you haven't been able to infect that many yet in this outbreak. There have been some child deaths already in overall cases, though.

Just imagine how much fun you'd have if you could ensure they were all unvaccinated! Are you betting on the numbers? What's the spread?

The rate was 1 in 1000 back in 1960. You guys really should update your numbers now and then, because a lots happened in the last 65 years. We don't have pockets of malnourished children like we did then, so the disease ends up being pretty mild.

The disease remains severe. What we have now is ECMO, ventilators, a whole lot of pharma, and the ability to crack a kid’s head open so his swollen brain has somewhere to go. If you don’t mind dropping a couple of million, we can save your kid, too. No guarantees about what he’s going to be like after, though.

+1 this person is very ignorant. 11% of the people diagnosed with measles in 2025 were hospitalized, more than 1/10. Three of these people who had measles died last year! In 2025, even with modern medical care you are talking about the fatality rate was still 1/760 last year.

Makes me so angry. These are needless deaths. Brought on by repudiation of one of the most amazing things science has ever produced because a conman wants to be president.

Most deaths in this country are arguably needless, but we give people the freedom to make the decisions that lead to their deaths or the deaths of others. We let any ole idiot purchase a 5,000 pound battering ram and drive it around a city, while carrying a military inspired weapon, a couple of pit-bulls roaming around the backseat while chugging the largest slurpee they could fit in a cup-holder. All of these things are far dumber decisions than passing on the measles vaccine and they produce far more deaths.

That's before you factor in the often ignored fact that vaccines are not risk free. You really should read the package inserts of the vaccines you advocate for. Let me show you a small portion of one:
Nervous System
Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) subacute sclerosing
panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS); acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM);
transverse myelitis; febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis;
polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia; syncope."

Hrmm, one of those looks familiar...

So how many kids do we have to give SSPE to, uh, save kids from SSPE?

You know it's more common with the viral infection than with the vaccine, right?

I do not, could you tell me what the rate is for the vaccine?

Either way thanks to the work up thread on the lethality of SSPE we can safely say the MMR vaccine is killing kids.

People are disgusted by you, and rightfully so. You are reviled.

The rate of SSPE after vaccination is roughly 0.7 to 1 per million doses, and it is thought to be connected to unrecognized pre-existing measles infection.

The risk from measles infection (without widespread vaccination, this is essentially 100%, because it is so contagious) is a rate of somewhere between 10-300 cases per million -- unless you are under 1 year old, where the rate goes up to about 1 in 600.

You are so contemptible.

So that’s 3.6 million kids a year times two doses, SSPE at .7 per million and 95% fatality rate gets roughly 5 deaths per year. Agreed?

Aren't you still arguing that complication rates are down with better nutrition (et al.), or are we still using the same standard complication rates as previously for both vaccination and infection?

I’m using whatever numbers your compatriots posted. If you have better ones, feel free to post them.

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Anonymous wrote:So when are we going to get the pile of bodies we were promised?

1 to 3 in 1000 children with measles die. Try as you might, you haven't been able to infect that many yet in this outbreak. There have been some child deaths already in overall cases, though.

Just imagine how much fun you'd have if you could ensure they were all unvaccinated! Are you betting on the numbers? What's the spread?

The rate was 1 in 1000 back in 1960. You guys really should update your numbers now and then, because a lots happened in the last 65 years. We don't have pockets of malnourished children like we did then, so the disease ends up being pretty mild.

The disease remains severe. What we have now is ECMO, ventilators, a whole lot of pharma, and the ability to crack a kid’s head open so his swollen brain has somewhere to go. If you don’t mind dropping a couple of million, we can save your kid, too. No guarantees about what he’s going to be like after, though.

+1 this person is very ignorant. 11% of the people diagnosed with measles in 2025 were hospitalized, more than 1/10. Three of these people who had measles died last year! In 2025, even with modern medical care you are talking about the fatality rate was still 1/760 last year.

Makes me so angry. These are needless deaths. Brought on by repudiation of one of the most amazing things science has ever produced because a conman wants to be president.

Most deaths in this country are arguably needless, but we give people the freedom to make the decisions that lead to their deaths or the deaths of others. We let any ole idiot purchase a 5,000 pound battering ram and drive it around a city, while carrying a military inspired weapon, a couple of pit-bulls roaming around the backseat while chugging the largest slurpee they could fit in a cup-holder. All of these things are far dumber decisions than passing on the measles vaccine and they produce far more deaths.

That's before you factor in the often ignored fact that vaccines are not risk free. You really should read the package inserts of the vaccines you advocate for. Let me show you a small portion of one:
Nervous System
Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) subacute sclerosing
panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS); acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM);
transverse myelitis; febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis;
polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia; syncope."

Hrmm, one of those looks familiar...

So how many kids do we have to give SSPE to, uh, save kids from SSPE?

You know it's more common with the viral infection than with the vaccine, right?

I do not, could you tell me what the rate is for the vaccine?

Either way thanks to the work up thread on the lethality of SSPE we can safely say the MMR vaccine is killing kids.

People are disgusted by you, and rightfully so. You are reviled.

The rate of SSPE after vaccination is roughly 0.7 to 1 per million doses, and it is thought to be connected to unrecognized pre-existing measles infection.

The risk from measles infection (without widespread vaccination, this is essentially 100%, because it is so contagious) is a rate of somewhere between 10-300 cases per million -- unless you are under 1 year old, where the rate goes up to about 1 in 600.

You are so contemptible.

So that’s 3.6 million kids a year times two doses, SSPE at .7 per million and 95% fatality rate gets roughly 5 deaths per year. Agreed?

Aren't you still arguing that complication rates are down with better nutrition (et al.), or are we still using the same standard complication rates as previously for both vaccination and infection?

I’m using whatever numbers your compatriots posted. If you have better ones, feel free to post them.

So what is the cite for the 3.8 million from, again? Just to keep it clear.

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Anonymous wrote:So when are we going to get the pile of bodies we were promised?

1 to 3 in 1000 children with measles die. Try as you might, you haven't been able to infect that many yet in this outbreak. There have been some child deaths already in overall cases, though.

Just imagine how much fun you'd have if you could ensure they were all unvaccinated! Are you betting on the numbers? What's the spread?

The rate was 1 in 1000 back in 1960. You guys really should update your numbers now and then, because a lots happened in the last 65 years. We don't have pockets of malnourished children like we did then, so the disease ends up being pretty mild.

The disease remains severe. What we have now is ECMO, ventilators, a whole lot of pharma, and the ability to crack a kid’s head open so his swollen brain has somewhere to go. If you don’t mind dropping a couple of million, we can save your kid, too. No guarantees about what he’s going to be like after, though.

+1 this person is very ignorant. 11% of the people diagnosed with measles in 2025 were hospitalized, more than 1/10. Three of these people who had measles died last year! In 2025, even with modern medical care you are talking about the fatality rate was still 1/760 last year.

Makes me so angry. These are needless deaths. Brought on by repudiation of one of the most amazing things science has ever produced because a conman wants to be president.

Most deaths in this country are arguably needless, but we give people the freedom to make the decisions that lead to their deaths or the deaths of others. We let any ole idiot purchase a 5,000 pound battering ram and drive it around a city, while carrying a military inspired weapon, a couple of pit-bulls roaming around the backseat while chugging the largest slurpee they could fit in a cup-holder. All of these things are far dumber decisions than passing on the measles vaccine and they produce far more deaths.

That's before you factor in the often ignored fact that vaccines are not risk free. You really should read the package inserts of the vaccines you advocate for. Let me show you a small portion of one:
Nervous System
Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) subacute sclerosing
panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS); acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM);
transverse myelitis; febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis;
polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia; syncope."

Hrmm, one of those looks familiar...

So how many kids do we have to give SSPE to, uh, save kids from SSPE?

You know it's more common with the viral infection than with the vaccine, right?

I do not, could you tell me what the rate is for the vaccine?

Either way thanks to the work up thread on the lethality of SSPE we can safely say the MMR vaccine is killing kids.

People are disgusted by you, and rightfully so. You are reviled.

The rate of SSPE after vaccination is roughly 0.7 to 1 per million doses, and it is thought to be connected to unrecognized pre-existing measles infection.

The risk from measles infection (without widespread vaccination, this is essentially 100%, because it is so contagious) is a rate of somewhere between 10-300 cases per million -- unless you are under 1 year old, where the rate goes up to about 1 in 600.

You are so contemptible.

So that’s 3.6 million kids a year times two doses, SSPE at .7 per million and 95% fatality rate gets roughly 5 deaths per year. Agreed?

Aren't you still arguing that complication rates are down with better nutrition (et al.), or are we still using the same standard complication rates as previously for both vaccination and infection?

I’m using whatever numbers your compatriots posted. If you have better ones, feel free to post them.

So what is the cite for the 3.8 million from, again? Just to keep it clear.

The birth cohort for recent years, and it was 3.6. You can pick other years, but the number will just increase as those cohorts were bigger.

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Anonymous wrote:So when are we going to get the pile of bodies we were promised?

1 to 3 in 1000 children with measles die. Try as you might, you haven't been able to infect that many yet in this outbreak. There have been some child deaths already in overall cases, though.

Just imagine how much fun you'd have if you could ensure they were all unvaccinated! Are you betting on the numbers? What's the spread?

The rate was 1 in 1000 back in 1960. You guys really should update your numbers now and then, because a lots happened in the last 65 years. We don't have pockets of malnourished children like we did then, so the disease ends up being pretty mild.

The disease remains severe. What we have now is ECMO, ventilators, a whole lot of pharma, and the ability to crack a kid’s head open so his swollen brain has somewhere to go. If you don’t mind dropping a couple of million, we can save your kid, too. No guarantees about what he’s going to be like after, though.

+1 this person is very ignorant. 11% of the people diagnosed with measles in 2025 were hospitalized, more than 1/10. Three of these people who had measles died last year! In 2025, even with modern medical care you are talking about the fatality rate was still 1/760 last year.

Makes me so angry. These are needless deaths. Brought on by repudiation of one of the most amazing things science has ever produced because a conman wants to be president.

Most deaths in this country are arguably needless, but we give people the freedom to make the decisions that lead to their deaths or the deaths of others. We let any ole idiot purchase a 5,000 pound battering ram and drive it around a city, while carrying a military inspired weapon, a couple of pit-bulls roaming around the backseat while chugging the largest slurpee they could fit in a cup-holder. All of these things are far dumber decisions than passing on the measles vaccine and they produce far more deaths.

That's before you factor in the often ignored fact that vaccines are not risk free. You really should read the package inserts of the vaccines you advocate for. Let me show you a small portion of one:
Nervous System
Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) subacute sclerosing
panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS); acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM);
transverse myelitis; febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis;
polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia; syncope."

Hrmm, one of those looks familiar...

So how many kids do we have to give SSPE to, uh, save kids from SSPE?

You know it's more common with the viral infection than with the vaccine, right?

I do not, could you tell me what the rate is for the vaccine?

Either way thanks to the work up thread on the lethality of SSPE we can safely say the MMR vaccine is killing kids.

People are disgusted by you, and rightfully so. You are reviled.

The rate of SSPE after vaccination is roughly 0.7 to 1 per million doses, and it is thought to be connected to unrecognized pre-existing measles infection.

The risk from measles infection (without widespread vaccination, this is essentially 100%, because it is so contagious) is a rate of somewhere between 10-300 cases per million -- unless you are under 1 year old, where the rate goes up to about 1 in 600.

You are so contemptible.

So that’s 3.6 million kids a year times two doses, SSPE at .7 per million and 95% fatality rate gets roughly 5 deaths per year. Agreed?

Aren't you still arguing that complication rates are down with better nutrition (et al.), or are we still using the same standard complication rates as previously for both vaccination and infection?

I’m using whatever numbers your compatriots posted. If you have better ones, feel free to post them.

So what is the cite for the 3.8 million from, again? Just to keep it clear.

The birth cohort for recent years, and it was 3.6. You can pick other years, but the number will just increase as those cohorts were bigger.

What's the cite for the number you are using, again?

(That means your refence, not just the number.)

[Anonymous]

PS: While I'm waiting to hear back from you on that, here is the most useful current article on SSPE, from the July 2025 edition of Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40701692/ :

Epidemiology

... The persistence of measles outbreaks in resource-limited settings ensures a continuous reservoir of SSPE cases, further burdening the fragile healthcare systems. The global incidence of SSPE is estimated at 4-11 cases per 100,000 measles cases, and is higher in countries with a higher incidence of measles (up to 27.9 cases per 100,000 measles cases).
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Infants, particularly those under 12 months of age, are at a higher risk, with the likelihood of developing SSPE rising to 18 cases per 100,000 children.
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The unfounded belief that the measles vaccine can cause or accelerate SSPE needs to be broken, as to date the vaccine virus has not been isolated from SSPE cases. While the re-emergence of SSPE in HIC is related to the measles outbreaks, many children with SSPE in LMIC have no history of prior measles infection. This is due to either a subclinical measles or undiagnosed mild measles infection during early childhood before vaccination.

[Anonymous]

PPS: More specifically, SSPE is a sequelae of infection with a strain of measles virus that contains the PEA motif (residues P64, E89, and especially A209) in the matrix protein. 9 out of the 10 gene sequenced wild-type measles virus strains contain that PEA motif, but the vaccine strains do not. The vaccine strains have an SKT motif (S64, K89, T209) instead.

Measles viruses with the SKT motif have never been isolated in cases of SSPE, and neither has the one wild-type strain which does not have the PEA motif
(i.e., genotype B3 with PET).

So I'm not likely to concede that you are going to be killing a certain number of children a year via SSPE by giving them the measles vaccine. I would, however, like to be accurate in the predictions of how many would be likely to die from complications of measles infection, and for that I would first look at your reference for the number you gave.

[Anonymous]

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PPS: More specifically, SSPE is a sequelae of infection with a strain of measles virus that contains the PEA motif (residues P64, E89, and especially A209) in the matrix protein. 9 out of the 10 gene sequenced wild-type measles virus strains contain that PEA motif, but the vaccine strains do not. The vaccine strains have an SKT motif (S64, K89, T209) instead.

Measles viruses with the SKT motif have never been isolated in cases of SSPE, and neither has the one wild-type strain which does not have the PEA motif
(i.e., genotype B3 with PET).

So I'm not likely to concede that you are going to be killing a certain number of children a year via SSPE by giving them the measles vaccine. I would, however, like to be accurate in the predictions of how many would be likely to die from complications of measles infection, and for that I would first look at your reference for the number you gave.

You guys are arguing over a detail that is irrelevant. Even if the measles vaccine does kill 1/million people that get it. Measles is much more dangerous. Before the vaccine we had 3-4 million cases a year. So the number of deaths from measles each year was well in excess of 1,000 per year. Even if vaccine does kill 4 people a year that is much better than 1,000+ people dying from measles each year. Antivaxxers are incapable of understanding math apparently.

[Anonymous]

I'll always strive to answer questions correctly. The math may not matter to you, but the facts of the matter do seem to matter to some. Personally, I'm happy to whack that mole publicly.

Feel free to skip the posts you aren't interested in.

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PPS: More specifically, SSPE is a sequelae of infection with a strain of measles virus that contains the PEA motif (residues P64, E89, and especially A209) in the matrix protein. 9 out of the 10 gene sequenced wild-type measles virus strains contain that PEA motif, but the vaccine strains do not. The vaccine strains have an SKT motif (S64, K89, T209) instead.

Measles viruses with the SKT motif have never been isolated in cases of SSPE, and neither has the one wild-type strain which does not have the PEA motif
(i.e., genotype B3 with PET).

So I'm not likely to concede that you are going to be killing a certain number of children a year via SSPE by giving them the measles vaccine. I would, however, like to be accurate in the predictions of how many would be likely to die from complications of measles infection, and for that I would first look at your reference for the number you gave.

People who really know their stuff are my jam.