Posted on 03/30/2025 7:10:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A mother of an infant, a principal of a religious school, and a public health physician — they all share the desire to get kids vaccinated against measles as Ontario recorded another 102 cases over the past week.
Public Health Ontario said Thursday there have been 572 cases since the outbreak began in October, 453 of them confirmed and 119 probable. Of the 42 people requiring hospitalization, two have required intensive care, and 36 have been children — most of them unvaccinated.
Article content The highly infectious disease is still predominantly impacting unvaccinated infants, kids and teenagers, most in Southwestern and Grand Erie public health units.
That worries Rosemary Tamburini, whose nine-month-old baby is just a few months shy of his first measles shot.
She doesn’t want to wait to vaccinate her child any longer, and is considering early immunization.
“I don’t think I’m alone in that. I’ve had discussions with several moms in Ontario who are in a similar situation looking to potentially get vaccinated early,” said Tamburini, who lives in Toronto’s west-end suburb, Etobicoke.
The measles vaccine typically starts for babies at one-year-old, but Ontario public health units have made it available to babies as young as six months in response to the outbreak.
New measles cases have appeared in Waterloo, in the western edge of the Greater Toronto Area, and Lambton County in southwestern Ontario. Just south in Chatham-Kent, cases nearly doubled to 39 in the past week, and the spread continues northeast in Huron Perth where 55 people have been sickened.
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I was born in 1947 and was the baby of the family. Whatever my siblings caught at school, they came home and gave it to me. I was just a baby when I got chickenpox. My mother said I was covered with them.
I studied the Civil War for many years, wrote a paper for college many years ago that dealt with medical practices and advancements during the war. One thing I learned was that young men who had lived in rural territories of the country, never attended school, and had little contact with outsiders, were extremely susceptible once they went to war. They were the ones who ended up dying from measles, mumps and other diseases, because they had never come in contact with those diseases as children, and the conditions of camp life often-time weakened them and their immune systems, thus making them prime candidates for those diseases.
Yes..the illegals..unvetted..untested..btw there’s a tb outbreak in the Portland Oregon area.
Doc said the chickenpox virus usually hits you when you are stressed, fatigued, weak and aren’t eating right. Sounds like a civil (it was anything but civil) war soldier. So I have no doubt about what you learned. Getting childhood maladies as a child is one thing but as an adult not so good. I got mumps at 20 years old. The only time I could brag about being hung like a Brahma bull. It was a tough couple of weeks. I was in off crew on my boat at the time. I didn’t feel particularly sick and offered to report for muster at the crew’s office. My COB told me he’d kick my ass and throw me in the brig if I did. He and a few of the officers hadn’t ever had the mumps. My only stint that got me out of muster in the USN. It seems funny now, it wasn’t then. Regards
Interesting how the Brady Bunch treated measles a few decades ago.
About a minute and a half.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5289k-dbOMY
We did get the polio vaccines in the 50's. There were 3 different shots you had to get when they first came out. I never had a problem with needles because I got so used to getting shots in my butt, but those vaccines were not pleasant. After they injected the live serum, your arm gradually began aching, then got worse, and you could barely lift your arm. The side effects would gradually recede after several hours, and your arm would return to normal.
My sons both got the mumps vaccine. One was born in 1966. The second was born in 1971. They never had the mumps, so the vaccines must have worked. Both had chickenpox before the vaccine came to be. Oldest son got one of the first batches of measles vaccine, then a few years later he came down with full blown measles. When we took him to the doctor, he told us that some of the first batches were not effective.
My mother worked and had to leave me home during the day. I was 10 or so. It was me staying inside with the dog and staying quiet. Well I went from room to room with a BB gun shooting through the window screens at squirrels and birds. Mom wasn’t too concerned but dad was pissed about the screens. Most of the time I felt fine, hell at 10 or 11 years old? Nothing short of no tv or get to bed was a problem.
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Well we made it this far. Odd isn’t it, I look at all that time and thinking God must love me and some folks think we had it awful. I guess what don’t kill you makes you appreciate what made you stronger. My 200cc’s of penicillin was a shot in the butt on day 1-7 of Navy boot camp. Best part, we all limped in unison. The USN vaxed me up to be darn near bullet proof. I look back and figure there are germs that are still terrified of old vets. Regards
Measles? Call me when they get the mumps
The article casts shade on the Mennonites...
It may be mRNA based - they aren’t going to tell the public.
Its not, according to this and other sites:
https://www.goodrx.com/health-topic/vaccines/other-mrna-vaccines
Are they lying? I can no longer tell...but it seems like good info.
Who’s bring it in and who’s contracting the measles? Is everyone vaccinated for school, or had it back in the day?
NO disease IS ILLEGAL.
ALL diseases HAVE RIGHTS!
What a surprise.
The one in Texas does, too.
The left never misses an opportunity to go after Christians.
Interesting, though, that the Mennonites have not gotten vaccines for years and there’ve been precious few outbreaks of measles. Only recently. And what has changed?
We all know the answer to that.
I see the stats in the Public Health Ontario link you posted....
So not that long ago, this link was posted here on FR when measles was being discussed...it is a medical paper in the Journal of Clinical Virology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1386653224000581
“Shedding of measles vaccine RNA in children after receiving measles, mumps and rubella vaccination”
Does this explain what happened in Waterloo? There were a few cases of measles which caused a big push on getting vaccinated which resulted in shedding which in turn caused an ‘outbreak’ amongst all the remaining folks who were not vaccinated or otherwise had immunity? According to this link, “Shedding of measles vaccine RNA is not uncommon and vaccine RNA can be detected in the nasopharyngeal samples up to 29 days post MMR.”
...or otherwise had immunity?
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Should have said “... or otherwise did NOT have immunity.”
3rd world immigrants bringing in 3rd world diseases?
Glad we did, and thank you for your service.
I was the baby of the family, and now the last one left. Both parents and my three siblings smoked. I never did. Both parents and a sister died of lung cancer. Nobody in my family lived past 74. My only brother, a U.S. Army Vietnam vet died at the young age of 51 of a massive heart attack. Both parents were already gone so they didn't have to experience the loss of a child. I always figured that the there was no longevity gene in our family, so I'm surprised I've lasted this long. Managed to retire from my job with NY State when I was 56 with 33 years of service. Took a reduced pension so if I died within 15 years of retiring, that my sons would get to split what was in my pension fund. I'm now in my 22nd year of retirement, which I'm grateful for every day, because a lot of the people I worked with never lived to retire, and most of them were younger than me.
You mean it is not all those migrants entering our southern borders?
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