measles
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Can a Virus Age You?
The following is an excerpt from Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature’s Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas Brendborg. Available for sale January 17, 2023 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org.
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Measles Is Back With a Vengeance, Killed 200,000 in 2019
A new report from the World Health Organisation and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention highlights a bleak reality: Measles, the highly contagious but vaccine-preventable viral illness, infected at least 860,000 people and killed over 200,000 worldwide in 2019 — a roughly 50% jump in deaths from 2016. Sadly, the covid-19 pandemic is likely…
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Public Health Experts Call For Aggressive, Global Push Against Antivaxxers
Public health experts are fed up with the anti-vaccination movement, which is most recently behind a surge of the completely preventable disease measles in the U.S. this year. So much so that a group of them has decided to issue a statement calling for institutions around the world – from search engines and social media…
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These Are The U.S. Counties Where Measles Could Strike Next
Like every single live-action Disney movie out this year, measles is making the comeback no one asked for. Already, there have been more than 700 cases of the viral and vaccine-preventable disease reported in the U.S. this year — a record high since it was eradicated in the country nearly 20 years ago.