New CDC Guidance Could Revive a Rare but Deadly Disease

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“Meningococcal disease is a terrible, terrible disease,” explained Walter Orenstein, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta and former director of the U.S. Immunization Program. He recalled seeing pediatric cases during his infectious diseases training in the 1970s “that were just awful and unfortunately led to a number of children dying and the potential for brain damage in those surviving.”

The acute, severe disease is driven by the Neisseria meningitidis bacterium. Infection can lead to bacterial meningitis, sepsis, and pneumonia. About half of people with the disease present with meningitis, which can include sudden onset of fever, headache, a stiff neck, nausea, and altered mental state.

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Wonder if I can ask my government to stop allowing US citizens in my country because they may be bringing in diseases we already eradicated.

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Ask your government to enforce vaccine mandates, and a mandatory quarantine period for anyone that travels there without proper vaccine documentation, as a requirement for entry. That won’t target the US specifically, but targets the people from here that you don’t want.

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In 20 years, the cemetery is going to be full of headstones for children just like those old cemeteries from the 1800s and people will likely just think in mid 1900s we buried our kids somewhere else and not that kids didn’t die needlessly for 70 years, and we for some reason brought it back.

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Thought the headline was backwards for a second.

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I thought the image was of strange pairs of hairy red testicles

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Will it at least only hit those morons, or once again is their stupidity coming for the rest of us?

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Contagious diseases are not in the habit of asking who you voted for before they infect you.

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True, but some things can make it more likely. Vaccination (or lack thereof), geography, climate, lifestyle habits, etc. Hoping at least some factors lean more MAGAt than not.

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Sadly, conservatives turn humanity into a bucket of crabs - but where they are the ones pulling normal people back down with them.

Conservatives make everything worse for everyone. If only they just made things bad for themselves. I’d love it if only conservatives had to live with their shitty ideology and their shitty choices.

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Time to ask my GP for a vaccine… I live in Europe, but tourists from USA come here fairly often.

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