CDC says 20,000 people may have been exposed to measles at Asbury University religious revival

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

An estimated 20,000 people attended a large religious gathering in Kentucky on the same days as a resident who was infected with measles last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday, with potential contacts who may have been exposed to the highly transmissible virus now spanning multiple states and countries.

The CDC is urging doctors to "be on high alert for measles symptoms'' among people who attended the gathering and is actively working with Kentucky authorities to search for additional cases.

"Community transmission of measles in connection with this event is possible, particularly among unvaccinated or under-vaccinated individuals," CDC spokesperson Scott Pauley said in a statement.

Pauley said that the agency is urging unvaccinated people who may have been exposed at the Asbury University gathering to contact a doctor and get vaccinated. Vaccines or immunoglobulin can be administered following exposure to unvaccinated or undervaccinated people to fend off the virus.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asbury-university-revival-potential-measles-exposure-20000-people/

[WhiteTara]

1. with the spread of one to four

this could become another pandemic.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. Jesus, Take the Wheel!

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[subject]

23. hardcore christianity is what

got them there.

[live love laugh]

38. LOL 😆

[lapfog_1]

2. cool... I wonder if someone got the "golden ticket"

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a very rare, but fatal disease of the central nervous system that results from a measles virus infection acquired earlier in life.

SSPE generally develops 7 to 10 years after a person has measles, even though the person seems to have fully recovered from the illness.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Matthew 4:7

[dflprincess]

17. I had to look it up

but very appropriate.

[Freethinker65]

4. Asbury's Measles Retreat.

How long before the GOP starts blaming the NIH or CDC for diseases spread by irrational fearful religious beliefs?

[IronLionZion]

21. Deep State liberals are targeting religious conservatives

just like how antivaxxers were targeted with COVID.

[markodochartaigh]

42. I remember at The Gay Agenda meeting a few months ago

it was suggested that if all the MAGA people had red spots from measles they couldn't tell when they were being targeted by tHe sPaCe LaSeR.

[live love laugh]

39. How about blaming Mitch McConnell?

NOT

[machoneman]

46. It's a Fauci's fault! Fox Snooze sez so in 5-4-3-2-1............

[jpak]

5. We all had measles when I was a kid

It sucked

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. The up side is that you are forever immune to measles.

I likewise had measles as a kid. Also mumps, rubella, and chicken pox.

And various bouts of flu. One of the reasons I don't bother with flu vaccines is that I got influenza any number of times in childhood and early adulthood, and figure I'm pretty much immune to any possible flu virus.

Keep in mind, that one reason that older people didn't get the flu during that terrible 1918 influenza epidemic as that about 50 years earlier a similar (type A) flu made the rounds, and the older adults in 1918 had either gotten it and recovered, or were already immune.

Oh, I have gotten the Covid shot and two boosters so far.

[SouthernDem4ever]

27. I found it bearable and was happy to get off school for a few days

[live love laugh]

40. I was hospitalized for it but glad I don't have to worry about it now.

[Sky Jewels]

6. What a combo of things things that suck: religion, anti-vaxxism, and deadly

contagious diseases.

[SoCalDavidS]

7. Jesus Will Protect Them

I wonder how many of them were vaccinated. No matter, prayers will make it all better.

[Sky Jewels]

8. They just need to pray to the same sky wizard that smote them in the first place.

[SoCalDavidS]

9. Blasphemy

The sky wizard is only responsible for good. This was obviously the devil's work.

[Sky Jewels]

11. Oh that's right. And the omnipotent ruler of the universe can't control the devil

that he created because ... reasons. And ours is not to question.

[SoCalDavidS]

15. Now You Got It

Don't forget to tip your Pastor on the way out.

[Abolishinist]

22. Well, if I hadn't taken the time to read your

post, I could have just caught him before he boarded his Gulfstream V.

Guess I'll just have to give it instead to some anti-prosperity homeless person.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. And when they die, they will say Jesus or God called them to heaven.

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[NCjack]

43. Jesus, are you sure that in Heaven the RWNJs and MAGAts are in short supply, and

you are desperate for more to police and enforce the rules in Heaven?

[Baitball Blogger]

10. High chance of having anti-vaxxers in the crowd.

[onecaliberal]

12. Going to find out soon.

[LisaM]

13. Gee.

I sure hope they're all vaccinated.

Actually, that's not funny, because likely many of them are not and this could be a public health problem.

[SouthernDem4ever]

29. It's tragically funny

Especially when you see these antivaxxer trying to convince everyone not to get the vaccine and it ends up killing them.

[AllyCat]

36. According to the article, students are required to have the 2 dose

Series. And yet, KY kindergartners have one of the lowest measles vaccination rates in the country. Perfect storm. Anti-vaxxer idiots.

[PatrickforB]

18. You know, I always wonder at the motive behind the lies - take the anti-vaxx 'movement'

for example. I'm old enough to remember kids who had polio. It was horrible.

Measles, mumps, all the rest...why in the world wouldn't you get the vaccine?

Why would you not get the COVID, flu and shingles vaccines?

[mbusby]

24. I had...

...measles, chicken pox and polio as a child. Not recommended.

[SouthernDem4ever]

30. Because people believe in stupid conspiracies instead of science

Yes, they are that dumb.

[Mopar151]

32. Because you "know" that vaccines cause autisim.

It happened to your friends kid! Got the MMR,, had a little reaction, became nonverbal. Vaccine HAS to be the cause!

[IronLionZion]

20. Measles was declared eradicated from the US in 2000

The US had 0 Measles cases until these antivaxxer idiots made it great again.

The first person in the US to die from Measles since its eradication was a vaccinated woman who was immunocompromised. Through no choice of her own, antivaxxxers killed her. And that's the problem. Antivaxxxers can infect someone else who can't fight off the infection. So it's not "my body my choice" for immunocompromised people, of which there are many everywhere. Measles is so highly contagious and easily transmitted that a person is guaranteed to get infected sooner or later.

Real "herd immunity" is to vaccinate everyone so that there is little or no virus circulating among our population. It's not infect everyone and see who survives.

[GenThePerservering]

25. In this context

'my body my choice' means 'my body and screw everybody else.'

I also had measles and chicken pox (and mumps). Having the flu did NOT make me immune to the flu because strains can mutate so much.

Get the flu shot, for the sake of other people if not yourself.

[Schmice3]

26. Their prayers to meet Jesus will soon be answered.

[Captain Zero]

28. Thankfully there is a Measles Vaccination

So no one has to die from it like my 10 year old uncle did in 1925.

He got a bad case of measles followed by a pneumonia, which was not uncommon before good science and vaccinations.

[AllyCat]

35. As a student nurse, I took care of a guy in Milwaukee

He was elderly, and had developmental delays as well as deafness. He got measles as a kid and survived, but went from healthy kindergartner to needing lifelong care and supervision from measles.

[AdamGG]

31. Paging Charles Darwin...

[sarcasmo]

33. Measles Revival

[AllyCat]

34. Stupidity kills

Religion kills too.

[Javaman]

37. You know we were so close to eradicating measles's and chicken pox

Back in 2000. But then that antivaxxer asshole Wakefield fucked us all over with his complete and utter bullshit “study”.

He should be burned at the stake

[Initech]

44. Stupid anti-vaxxer dumbasses.

[Skittles]

45. fucking morons

ugh

[machoneman]

47. Vaccination? We don't need no stinkin' vaccination! Hell no.....

[twodogsbarking]

48. I had measles as a child and shingles three years ago while waiting for the vaccine.

Shingles vaccine is much more available now. Shingles isn't the measles.
It is many times worse than described on TV. I got treatment within three days
that was supposed to lesson the severity. Pain was terrible and was present even after the sores were gone.
Took many months until no more symptoms. Stay well folks.
I did get the vaccine when I could.

[Bayard]

49. Thank you for not specifically slamming the state of Kentucky

And--thankfully--this is several hours east of me, and I had measles as a kid.