Medieval disease outbreaks?

American Thinker ^ | August 18, 2025 | Jim Davis

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Has anyone noticed the incredible scrutiny that left-wing propaganda bureaus (formerly known as “news media”) give to every little disease outbreak?

Let’s take measles, for example. It’s a virtually harmless childhood disease. You get measles once, and you’re immune for life.

When I was a child, whenever any of our friends got the measles, it was time for a slumber party. All the kids who weren’t immune from previous outbreaks got the measles, and stayed home from school for a few days.

Our parents planned it that way. Development of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine in the 1970s put an end to this “abusive” practice. Nowadays, measles outbreaks are front-page news.

·         From my hometown NBC affiliate, WEEK-TV in Peoria, Illinois: “US nears its highest measles case count in more than 30 years.”

·         From ABC News: “2 dead and at least 58 sick from growing Legionnaires' disease cluster in New York City.”

·         The worst appears to be tuberculosis. It’s an airborne disease, there is no cure, and it’s fatal.

·         The arrival of monkeypox also got a lot of fanfare. The Healthcare Industrial Complex got over its self-imposed censorship about all LGBTQ diseases for about ten minutes, to admit that it’s spread by homosexuals.

In Southern California, there was a typhus outbreak in 2018. It became so widespread that a deputy district attorney got infected. The local NBC affiliate was quick to blame it on pervasive rat infestations, which plague all big cities.

My question is, “How did the first rat get infected?” Because typhus, a medieval plague, was virtually eradicated in America in the 1960s. How did that first rat get infected, if the disease was eradicated 50 years earlier?

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 2018; legionnaires; newyork; ratinfestations; rats; tuberculosis; typhus

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Let’s take measles, for example. It’s a virtually harmless childhood disease.

Stopped right there. This person is clueless.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We have people like you to thank for the Covid lockdown and the “vaccine” that didn’t prevent the disease but deliberately caused catastrophic side effects.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

You also are clueless.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You have religious faith in “experts.”

[mdmathis6]

Tuberculosis is treatable. It just takes a while and you have to stay on the protocol drugs. I agree that the article is questionable.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

You have religious faith in “experts.”

No. But I’m old enough to know better than to accept the advice of anonymous blowhards on the internet.

People sometimes confuse red measles with German measles. German measles are relatively mild and not overly dangerous, except for pregnant women. Red measles are different.

I personally missed four weeks of the first grade due to a case of red measles. Before the measles vaccine, hundreds of people died every year in the U.S. from measles. Many more suffered severe cases of encephalitis. A significant percentage who weathered the storm were hospitalized.

One of the results of the near elimination of diseases such as measles is that clueless individuals can get on the internet and spew their anti-vaccine nonsense and contend that such diseases are not dangerous.

[AppyPappy]

“When I was a child, whenever any of our friends got the measles, it was time for a slumber party. “

That was Chicken Pox

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[Labyrinthos]

“Stopped right there. This person is clueless.”

Agreed. From Wikipedia:

Between 1987 and 2000, the case fatality rate across the United States was three deaths per 1,000 cases attributable to measles, or 0.3%.[37] In underdeveloped nations with high rates of malnutrition and poor healthcare, fatality rates have been as high as 28%.[37] In immunocompromised persons (e.g., people with AIDS) the fatality rate is approximately 30%.[38]

Even in previously healthy children, measles can cause serious illness requiring hospitalization.[34] One out of every 1,000 measles cases progresses to acute encephalitis, which often results in permanent brain damage.[34] One to three out of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurological complications.[34]

When I was growing up, I had a neighbor who contracted measles in the early 1950s at seven years old. The measles virus caused acute encephalitis, which resulted in a lifelong mental disability.

[crz]

Had the mumps. Had whooping cough and was vaccinated for it.

Never caught measels/chickenpox and was in close contact with them.

Each of my Doctors scratch their heads when i tell them that.

I have had chronic asthma all my life and now COPD.

[aomagrat]

These medieval diseases popping up in America couldn’t have come from all of the medieval people swarming across our borders the past few years could they?

[Valpal1]

And it was chicken pox parties, not measles parties. Parents did not intentionally expose their kids to measles. I went to school with a boy who was permanently deaf from measles.

[Openurmind]

“Stopped right there. This person is clueless.”

Yes, And...

“When I was a child, whenever any of our friends got the measles, it was time for a slumber party. All the kids who weren’t immune from previous outbreaks got the measles, and stayed home from school for a few days.”

That was CHICKEN POX not the Measles.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well its not harmless.I had both types and the German measles I had to be kept in a dimly lit room with the curtains drawn. But everyone I knew got the measles and nobody died that I know of. My best friend was an only child and everytime I caught something her Mom sent her over to sit by my bed and play checkers.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I agree with Thomas Sowell ... always question the self proclaimed and self certified “experts”.

[sauropod]

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