New Docs Get Schooled in Old Diseases as Vax Rates Fall

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... Why it matters: It's another reminder that diseases once thought to have been eradicated are showing up with increased frequency in clinics and ERs, posing challenges for younger physicians and health workers who thought they were relegated to history.

- - - Lingering vaccine hesitancy and distrust of the medical establishment stoked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are leading some health systems to add training on old scourges that were practically wiped out by immunization campaigns and increased surveillance.

"You're taught these things in medical school, and you're taught from a very academic perspective with the sense of measles was eradicated in 2000," said Nicholas Cozzi, EMS medical director at Rush.

- - - "Now we're having a resurgence, the highest in 25 years, and you might have not reviewed that since the first year of medical school," he added. "It's a new paradigm and a new normal that we have to adapt to."

The big picture: The focus is particularly acute on childhood illnesses such as measles, chicken pox, invasive strep pneumoniae and pertussis, experts told Axios. ...

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@#2 ... I think RFK Jr. needs some old-fashioned Mayan (or was it Incan?) trepination. ...

OK, you sent me to my medical dictionary for trepanation.

Wow.

Just wow.

@#2 ... I think RFK Jr. needs some old-fashioned Mayan (or was it Incan?) trepination. ...

But more to the point of the thread ...

Maybe Sec Kennedy needs to look more at scientific evidence instead of disproved conspiracy theories to set his policies?

Just a thought ...

@#5 ... measles

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That! ...

The old anti-vax ~movement~ was not strictly Republican.

From what I remember, it was bi-partisan, sucking in ignorami from both parties.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

... Anti-vax: the history of a scientific problem

The term Anti-vax' is one of the most notable recent additions to the Oxford English Dictionary,1 even though resistance to immunization is not a new fact. It always existed even before the development of the first vaccine. Kalichman et al.2 offer a critical analysis on vaccine mistrust discussing the historical public perceptions and concerns about vaccines prior and after COVID-19. It is important to note that the anti-vaccination movement dates back to 1796 when the English doctor Edward Jenner introduced the smallpox vaccine.3 This vaccine reduced the number of deaths caused by smallpox and in 1979 the disease was officially eradicated. Looking into the vaccine history timeline, the term anti-vax was initially used in the early 1800s to describe the smallpox vaccine hesitancy. In fact, the origin of the word vaccine comes from the Latin word vacca"in English cow. During this time, cowpox matter was used to produce an immune response against the deadly smallpox disease. Despite the worldwide successful vaccine history, several political parties and religious groups joined the anti-vaccination movement challenging the scientific credibility of the vaccines mainly criticizing its origins.

Although COVID-19 vaccine made real advancements saving countless lives, there are still many key counter factors endangering collective immunization. Understanding human behaviors will better prepare us to respond effectively to the next future epidemics and/or pandemics.3 Governments and science will continue to play critical roles supporting the development of groundbreaking research, collaborating to advance the production and the easy access and distribution of vaccines. Considering the history of humanity, misconceptions about immunizations will remain as a threat to global health; regardless the innumerous empirical evidence confirming the efficacy of the vaccines.4 ...

@#7

So, yeah, your view that "anti-vax" is old may be valid, or not.

It seems to have lived into the COVID era, and beyond into the Sec Kennedy era.

So, what's yer point?