Measles is a 'heat-seeking missile' experts warn as Florida outbreak grows
T he 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.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that as of Friday there have been at least 35 measles cases in 15 states in 2024 — most related to international travel. In January, there were nine measles cases in Pennsylvania, eight of them in Philadelphia. (If there are no more cases reported there as of early next week, the Philadelphia outbreak will be declared over.) Late Friday, Michigan ’ s health department announced that it, too, had identified a measles case — its first since 2019.
Florida’s outbreak is the largest in the U.S. right now. And what Florida’s health officials are doing — or not doing — is drawing fire from experts who study the way diseases spread.
Measles is so contagious and has such a long incubation period that the decision of the state’s Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo to let parents decide whether to quarantine their children or let them keep going to school could allow cases to spread, experts warn.
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Florida State’s Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo is playing with fire. The way to stop measles is well documented and that is not what Ladapo is doing.
This is result when you control it correctly and when you don't.
that clown should be good for a few more party wrecking deathsantis jokes...
are there any survival stats for anti-vax seniors that get infected? my Dr told me last summer that I may need a booster if measles blows up.
Mine did the same and from the looks of what is happening here now it may be necessary
The Surgeon General, appointed by Governor De Santis, is a vaccine opponent and won't back the CDC recommendations
against a highly contagious disease with no cure.
He should lose his license to practice medicine
Currently he is being blasted by the medical field for his handling of the measles outbreak.
He has been called a quack by more than a few members of the medical community and if these measles thing spreads he may well be looking for a new job.
One has to question why he was appointed.
DeSantis wanted to fight the mask mandates and the vaccine mandates.
To his apparent delight he finds a black, Nigerian born Doctor who hates vaccines and masks
and will stand beside DeSantis and criticize the CDC and common sense medicine in favor of "feelings".
You know those parents have rights too, and if their kids die, well it's the parents fault right?
He has, in spite of being traumatized by sexual assault by a baby sitter, collected degrees from
NYU, Harvard and USC.
He promoted Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine during Covid while questioning the vaccines.
He routinely opposes and criticizes the FDA and the CDC.
He opposes all gender care for minors.
He's a perfect Republican/s
In Florida, surgeon general ushers in a bright new day for medical quackery
Awesome article, lol!
doesn't measles have the potential to cause blindness also?
Yes, it does.
The rest of this thread was removed for no value. Knock it off. Only warning.
yeah!
They keep saying measles but I cannot find anywhere which of the two types it is. Is it rubella or rubeola. Both are contagious.
EVERYONE BACK ON THE SUBJECT OR YOU'LL BE DELETED.
It's got to be some sort of human axiom that people have to keep repeating the mistakes of the past.
... it's called the republican party.
There are enough anti-vax flakes on the left to make them a problem - hell we have one of their leaders running for President.
Please point out the 'anti-vax flakes on the left' - thank you very much.
You're speaking of JFK, Jr. as one on the - I don't know where the fuck he is, but it's not the 'left' and Jenny McCarthy an actress, not a leftie as far as I know. Two examples of anti-vaxxers that pop right to mind but I can't think of any on the left that I would deem anti-vaxxers.
jfk, jr.'s family has pretty much denounced him.
The No True Scotsman Fallacy does work with me. It's RFK Jr and he runs as a liberal and supports most liberal causes. The fact he's also a flake doesn't make him not liberal.
After this article there have been two more cases and the medical field is blasting the Florida Surgeon General.
The medical field all over the country is taking notice. I first read about it on an LA Times article.
Yes, they are but our fearless leader and Surgeon General are much more interested in fighting ''woke''...
I read somewhere the outbreak was in an elementary school. isn't the quarantine time length from exposure excessive and this clown is telling parents their kids don't need to be vaccinated?
Exactly right, devan.
maga healthcare...
anti-woke public healthcare
We can now add to our property insurance and auto insurance as the highest in the US and insurance companies leaving and others going bankrupt a breakout of measles makes us number one in another diaster.
But the ''war on woke'' is drawing most of our fearless leader's time and energy.
do you think deathsantis's 3 kids have their measles vaccinations?
Of course they do.
yeah, his wife has both height and reach advantage over him...
meh, she knew how to handle short pawing italians from that miami strip club back when she was a coed.
he always had new dollar bills and couldn't reach over the stage... they fell in love...
More reasons I am so happy I live in the Arizona desert.
It is HILARIOUS that there are people who think the state are stopping people from getting a vaccination.
Especially when there are School Immunization Requirements:
Did NOBODY do a simple google search to look this up?
Did you read the article? Where does anyone claim the state is STOPPING people from getting vaccinated?
Where did I say that was in the article. I was referring to the comments section.
If you are addressing a comment then hit ''reply'' and address it directly making the comment.
You mean like in 6 below?
Yes, since it copies your comment you should know it's directed to you.
Now, you want to try and make a comment on the crux of the article or not.
You should follow your own direction.
I did. My comment deals directly with the false information provided by the article.
And you should comment on the article.
There is no false information.
Be on topic or be deleted.
Please stay on topic and within the scope of the article. Any further comments will be deleted. The seeder has the right to determine the scope of the article always.
I think you missed the point of the article.
Dr Quack Lapado is in charge of the Florida department of health and has quite publicly suspended vaccine requirements
Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, says vaccination not required for school (ajc.com)
Yes, I used Google Search.
Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, telling parents it's fine to send unvaccinated kids to school - CBS News
Florida measles outbreak: Cases spread as state defies CDC guidance (usatoday.com)
Florida schools see measles cases grow, urge vaccination for 'public health threat' (msn.com)
And where in my link does it reflect any suspensions? It doesn't. This is what happens when you don't do your own research and rely on what somebody else told you..
I have feeling you won't read any of the links provided, even the one from Fox News, but I will try one more time.
(that implies that there are unvaccinated kids in the schools, Broward County says over 1000)
If you would like to verify the Dr's letter or the fact that Florida now permits unvaccinated children to attend school here is a good phone number for the FL Dept of Health (850) 245-4444
But since every news agency in the states is reporting on this incorrectly, maybe you should refer them to the web page you think matters.
Broward County Superintendent Peter Licata told Local 10 News Wednesday that the elementary school has a 92 percent vaccination rate.
Vaccination rules at Florida schools
In Florida, the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or MMR, is required to attend public and private childcare and K-12 schools. But some students can avoid the vaccine by getting a medical or religious exemption .
In Broward county (Manatee School District) that number is 8%.
There's only 2 million people in Broward County, what could possibly go wrong with the Surgeon General suspending vaccination requirements in defiance of his own Health Department's own web page?
I couldn't find a whole copy of Lapadope's letter to the community but he even poo poos the 21 day incubation
period and tells parents to "just use your judgement" on when to send them back to school.
This link will take you to the complete letter Lapadope's sent to parents.
Thank you for that.
Once again Lapadope acknowledges that there are unvaccinated children in the school in spite of what his own Department's website states is a requirement.
yeah, you surely don't want those you've amped up on bullshit conspiracies to turn on you...
In just about every other state these anti-vaxers are forced to home school their offspring.
there's no federal money in that...
But there are tax credits
The subject is the Florida Surgeon General, Dr. Lapado is not following the proven standard response to a measles outbreak which is highly contagious and deadly.
Get on topic now.
Be Franklin was a longtime champion of vaccination, this primitive version was called variolation, against smallpox. He was a proponent of scientific advances of the day. He felt a civic responsibility to use his newspaper to warn readers of outbreaks with reporting on who survived after variolation and who died. During one outbreak in Boston, 1/3 of the population died while those vaccinated survive.
Variolation then, required live virus cells taken from someone stricken and scratched it into the skin of a healthy person. This person usually contracted a very mild version, lasting several days but was immune for life.
An outback occurred in Philadelphia at the same time as his 4 year old son was suffering from dysentery. Think that variolation might be to dangerous while his son had dysentery, Ben didn't have his son vaccinated. Weeks later his son contracted small pox and died.
In his autobiography, he wrote, “I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it [smallpox] to him by inoculation.” Not able to measure the risk in the 18th century is understandable, not able to today isn't understandable.
Well Ben was rumored to have been struck by lightning once or twice and just not that bright afterwards.
The woman around him found him electrifying, especially those in Paris.
Back in my paramedic days my partner was struck by lightning while we were lifting a patient into the box. The patient and I weren't hit but we had to have a deputy drive us all to the hospital.
I was at a company picnic when a tree was hit with lightning and it blew all the bark off and set the tree on fire.
Back when I was a teen, lightning struck a birch tree in our back yard. My sister was swapping laundry loads and the current followed the steel plumbing into the house and knocked her on her ass.
I find that shocking!
Back in the day when I was a paramedic student going through clinical rotations in emergency rooms they vaccinated me and we all vaccinated each other. Can't get too much of a good thing when you are on the front firing line.
Folk who don't get vaccinated should not be allowed out of their homes during a pandemic.
Fucking anti-vaxxers. I have said for some time, release small pox among the antivaxx crowd and see how quickly they change their tune.
wtf? I thought nailing their doors and windows shut and torching the house was traditional...