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The U.S. is in the grips of a historic measles surge, with more than 3,000 measles cases reported in 45 states across the country since the start of 2025. So far, two unvaccinated children have died from the disease. At least 920 people have been infected in South Carolina, and a similar number in Texas. In both states, nearly all infected individuals were unvaccinated.
Now Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is urging Americans to get the measles vaccine as the country is on the brink of losing its measles elimination status.
“Take the vaccine, please. We have a solution for our problem,” Oz said on CNN’s State of Union on Sunday. “Not all illnesses are equally dangerous, and not all people are equally susceptible to those illnesses. But measles is one you should get your vaccine [for],” Oz said.
Girls who were HPV vaccinated now have almost zero cervical cancer 10 years later.
Free cure for cancer… But nah.
I remember being puzzled that my Christian (“pro-life”) parents were so against the HPV vaccine, especially considering that they don’t have any daughters.
Turns out they’d prefer women to die of cervical cancer for having sex than to even suggest to a 15yo girl that sex before marriage isn’t the most evil thing to ever exist.
Shit is just so painfully fucking stupid and hateful
Same thing at my daughter’s school, “the HPV vaccine turns daughters into sluts”.
incredible to see this level of ignorance in the 21 century.
Like you literally don’t even need to tell them it’s for an STD if that’s your prerogative. Just tell them it’s to prevent cancer.
It’s so fucking stupid I hate it so much
I think men and woman can get oral cancers from those same strains, and others, of hpv too. Like throat cancers. But there are like hundreds of strains, near 200 just in people.