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Canada and Mexico need to close their border to prevent the spread of measles.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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Canada isn't doing any better.
We're about to lose our status of having eradicated it.
Of course it's not chicken pox, we know measles well, we've vaccinated our kids against it at school for longer than I can remember.
It's one of those extremely rare, easy to prevent illnesses we've almost gotten rid of for good :-D
Symptoms:
It is airborne and very contagious.
Thanks for posting this. That link was so JPEG'd out...
I'm not sure anyone will get the gravity of that last image. It's just an MRI scan, you get those for many things. But not sure what makes sense to replace this with either.
"Revealed"? Wasn't that done over a century ago? What is this? Measles 2, the son of measles? Measles, the live action show? Measles on ice?
Measles, the return of the sith.
Shit, if only there was an easy wax to prevent all of that...
Prevent diseases? As if. Were such a thing possible surely people would be getting nobel prizes for it.
Maybe there is a way for the human body to practice on an inert version? That would be cool.
TIL why my mom always checked my throats for spots whenever we mentioned any kind of not feeling well. First thing she did. I always assumed it was just a strep thing, but she grew up in a time when measles was still an active threat. I just remember white spots in the throat being the biggest thing. No white spots, go to bed. White spots, go to doctor.
Fun fact: I ignored that advice in my late twenties and ended up with scarlet fever. Like a fucking Victorian child. Didn't even know scarlet fever was still a thing.
You dope. White spots = strep = you get antibiotics and start feeling better fast! No spots, it's a virus and you have to suffer through it for 2 weeks.
And of course, as you said, strep can become scarlet fever, where you stand defiantly in the sunset thinking (but not declaring, because your throat hurts) "as God is mah witness, Ah'll nevah leave strep untreated again!"
Glad you survived.
Thing is, I only had a minor sore throat for like 24 hours, with a couple white spots, and honestly, I just thought the sore throat was from some, uh, recreational activity the night before. But I felt just awful and flinchy* for several days, then I got these red bumps all over my back and shoulders, and then almost died.
*I get flinchy when I have a fever or get sick. Something touches me and it's like my body jumps or flinches and I don't understand it at all. It's happened my whole life, but about 6 months after the scarlet fever I got mono, and got super flinchy as well, and now that's just a thing that happens to me now, where my body involuntarily flinches whenever anything touches it. It's not all the time, but it'll do it for several days with no reason, and then not again for months. Doc doesn't know why, but guesses it's because the mono virus sticks around in you forever, and it's just an after effect. Says hopefully it'll go away eventually, but it's been like 5 years, and every so often (coincidentally happening the last couple days) I just suddenly become a scared Chihuahua or some shit
All my kids got MMR so.... They're good? Are the vast majority of children not vaccinated against measles?
A large part of the efficacy of vaccines comes from everyone around you also being mostly immune. If there are giant holes in the shield, everyone near those holes becomes more vulnerable. The vaccines can be overcome by the disease if enough viral load is present.
Ew TIL
Were you not alive during COVID? That was like, the entire thing...
Well, to be fair, chicken pox isn’t chicken pox either; it’s just the early symptoms of shingles, a neurological disease. And it’s treatable. Measles is also treatable, but it moves so fast that you may be dead or permanently harmed before you can get treatment.
While the message has always been loud and clear, it still is hard to reach those idiots with their fingers in their ears and shouting LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR at the top of their lungs.