The Texas Department of State Health Services warned this week of multiple ongoing mumps outbreaks. The surge, which includes 221 cases this year, constitutes the highest incidence of mumps in the state in 22 years.
Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus that spreads from person to person through saliva and mucus.
“What we’ve seen — as in other parts of the country, (it’s) really just the same thing — a pretty big resurgence in mumps cases over the last six or eight months,” said Chris Van Deusen, spokesman for the state’s health services department. In 2016, Texas experienced 192 mumps cases, he said, primarily in the last few months of the year…
An outbreak of mumps began in Arkansas in August, explained Dr. Dirk Haselow, Arkansas’ state epidemiologist. Between August and April 13, Arkansas reported 2,930 cases, he said. (Similarly, Washington state (PDF) has been hard hit by the mumps, reporting 611 confirmed and probable cases during 2017…)
Across the nation, most mumps cases are occurring among people who have been vaccinated, according to the CDC, and these outbreaks are not due to low vaccination rates. For example, in Texas, 97.6% of kindergarten-age children have received two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, Van Deusen said, while 98.7% of seventh-graders have.
Still feeling the benefits of the Obama administration’s immigration policies, I see. Imagine what is cooking in Venezuela right now, just waiting to explode into our populations if they get up here. Personally I am waiting to hear about the Cuban super-AIDS showing up in our gay communities. Everything we see now is nothing compared to what will happen when the economic situation collapses.
My guess is we ship our unused, outdated vaccines to the third world, probably charging them full price. Oddly enough I remember reading how after a flu season passes, we sell our unused flu vaccine to African nations and vaccinate all the Africans with it. I thought it odd, as by then we are getting rid of the flu vaccine because it is no longer tailored to the dangerous strains that are posing a threat. Between that and the fact that you rarely hear of flu outbreaks in remote villages in Africa, I always assumed it was just a way for the melonheads to deliver sterilants to Africa, and, in Ruth-Bader-Ginsberg-esque terms, deal with “certain populations” in Africa.
Regardless, as a result the third world has been like one big petri dish, where we throw the worst diseases the world has to offer against weakened and outdated versions of our vaccines and drugs, probably diluted with sterilants and nobody knows what else. The funny thing is, if I were to try and create a super-pathogen to wipe out humanity, that is the special sauce I would use to really supercharge it.
It is getting to the point you don’t even need a Bind villain to plot the end of the world. The imbecile in charge will do just as much damage as they claim to be trying to help.
Fortunately, when these super-pathogens hit, the first to die will be the rabbits.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because the pandemic is coming because of the rabbits
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I was always astonished to hear about the “Doctors” in India, Africa and Latin America using half or even less of the recommended doses of antibiotics. And those are their smart people. Hence the saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”.
If we are giving Africans sterilants, it does not seem to be working very well.
As a Texan in DFW, I can tell you that we don’t have a mumps problem. Illegals in Texas has a mumps problem, and if you aren’t illegal and don’t go to school with illegals, you aren’t worried about it.
Jerry Pournelle once reported on prisons in Russia where epidemics were addressed by giving half the affected prisoners half a course of antibiotics. A better way to breed antibiotic resistant strains of stuff is hard to imagine.