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Texas gave 15,000 more MMR shots this year—Now it has more measles cases than the entire U.S. had in 2024

Jon Fleetwood
jonfleetwood.substack.com
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
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More vaccinations, more measles.

Texas administered 15,000 more measles vaccinations this year compared to 2024 — and now there's a growing measles outbreak that has surpassed the total number of cases reported across the entire United States last year.

The news follows this website's February report that measles cases in Gaines County, Texas, had jumped 242% following a health district campaign to hand out free measles vaccines.

A measles outbreak after higher vaccination rates in Texas calls into question the shot's claimed effectiveness and underlying design.

Timeline & Numbers

Between January 1 and March 16 last year, 158,000 measles vaccines were administered in the state, according to CBS News. During the same time this year, 173,000 measles doses were given.

There are now more measles cases in Texas than there were across the United States in all of 2024.
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Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in public drinking water

Hanna Schoenbaum
AP
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:30 UTC
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© AP Photo/Paul SancyaA public water fountain is seen Friday, March 28, 2025, in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.
Utah has become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, pushing past opposition from dentists and national health organizations who warn the move will lead to medical problems that disproportionately affect low-income communities.

Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation Thursday barring cities and communities from deciding whether to add the mineral to their water systems.

Florida, Ohio and South Carolina are considering similar measures, while in New Hampshire, North Dakota and Tennessee, lawmakers have rejected them. A bill in Kentucky to make fluoridation optional stalled in the state Senate.

The American Dental Association sharply criticized the Utah law, saying it showed "wanton disregard for the oral health and well-being of their constituents."

Comment: Also see:

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Arrow Up

Best of the Web: "This is existential": Billionaire cancer researcher says Covid & vaccine likely causing surge in aggressive cancers

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 05:55 UTC
Dr. Patrick
© screenshotDr. Patrick Soon-Shiong
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong - a transplant surgeon-turned-biotech billionaire renowned for inventing the cancer drug Abraxane - has issued a startling warning in a new in-depth interview with Tucker Carlson.

Soon-Shiong, founder of ImmunityBio ($IBRX) and owner of the Los Angeles Times, claims that the COVID-19 pandemic, and the very vaccines developed to fight it, may be contributing to a global surge in "terrifyingly aggressive" cancers. In the nearly two-hour conversation, the Los Angeles Times owner leveraged his decades of clinical and scientific experience to outline why he suspects an unprecedented cancer epidemic is unfolding. This report examines Dr. Soon-Shiong's background and assertions, the scientific responses for and against his claims, new data on post-COVID health trends, and the far-reaching implications if his alarming hypothesis proves true.

Dr. Soon-Shiong's Claims

Soon-Shiong is a veteran surgeon and immunologist who has spent a career studying the human immune system's fight against cancer. He pioneered novel immunotherapies and even worked on a T-cell based COVID vaccine booster during the pandemic. In the interview, he draws on this background to voice deep concern over rising cancer cases, especially among younger people - something he describes as a "non-infectious pandemic" of cancer. He tells Carlson that in 50 years of medical practice, it was extraordinarily rare to see cancers like pancreatic tumors in children or young adults, yet recently such cases are appearing. For instance, Soon-Shiong was alarmed by seeing a 13-year-old with metastatic pancreatic cancer, a scenario virtually unheard of in his prior experience.
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The facts about seed oils and your health

Sheranmy Tsai
Zero Hedge
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:55 UTC
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© Alex Rodringo Brondan/Shutterstock
Every decade has a new food enemy. First, it was fat. Then, it was sugar. Now, seed oils are under fire — blamed for causing obesity and chronic disease.

They're almost impossible to avoid. Seed oils are in everything — from salad dressings and fast food to protein bars and even baby formula. Critics claim they're harmful, while supporters argue they're safe, affordable, and even good for you.

However, the truth is more nuanced. The debate is often oversimplified. Even the term "seed oil" is misleading, lumping together oils that have been part of traditional diets for centuries with those created for large-scale food production. At its core, the controversy isn't just about whether seed oils are inherently good or bad — it's about how they're processed and consumed.

What Are Seed Oils, Really?

If you've been following health trends, you've probably heard claims that seed oils are toxic and should be avoided. What exactly are seed oils, and why do some people consider them harmful?
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'Operation Stork Speed': HHS, FDA launch plan for more testing, scrutiny of infant formula ingredients

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
Children's Health Defense
Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
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After a meeting Tuesday with leading U.S. infant formula makers, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to make sure baby formula is safe, has the necessary ingredients and is free of contaminants.

The new initiative, "Operation Stork Speed," to be administered jointly by HHS and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will require increased testing for heavy metals and other contaminants, initiate a nutrient review process and encourage manufacturers to improve product labeling.

HHS launched the initiative on the same day Consumer Reports published the results of an investigation that found significant levels of contaminants including lead and arsenic in many commercially available baby formulas.

According to HHS, Operation Stork Speed will include the "first comprehensive update and review of infant formula nutrients by the FDA since 1998."
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Syringe

How Covid 'vaccines' paved the way for mRNA Cancer 'vaccines'

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:59 UTC
mRNA Vaccine
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The unprecedentedly speedy development and approval of the various Covid "vaccines" - most using previously unsuccessful mRNA technology - is considered a scientific miracle by ardent followers of The ScienceTM.

Many others - us included - see it another way: one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated against a scared public, and a potentially incredibly dangerous and even deadly one.

But the damage done by that process doesn't stop at the Covid "vaccines" themselves, they have opened the door for more and more "vaccines" to be rushed to market. That includes potentially "bespoke cancer vaccines", of which there are currently hundreds of medical trials taking place around the world.

Earlier today Wired published an interview with Lennard Lee, oncologist and director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford, headlined: Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer Vaccines

It's quite an interesting read.

For one thing, if I'm understanding Dr Lee's words correctly, these products aren't really "vaccines" [emphasis added]:
In the current trials, we do a biopsy of the patient, sequence the tissue, send it to the pharmaceutical company, and they design a personalized vaccine that's bespoke to that patient's cancer.
They don't prevent people from getting cancer, they are used to treat people who already have cancer. Meaning they're not "vaccines" in the true sense of the word at all.

This echoes the Covid "vaccines", which are known to prevent neither infection nor transmission of "Covid", but only "limit severity" (the reason they can't prevent transmission or infection is that "Covid" doesn't really exist, but we've covered that enough).

It seems the assault on words and their meanings that took place during Covid is going to have knock-on impacts for a long time yet. That, indeed, was the point.
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Gem

At-home light-emitting diode devices safe, effective for acne treatment

Lori Solomon
Medical Xpress
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
acne
At-home light-emitting diode (LED) devices are effective for treating acne, according to a research letter published online March 5 in JAMA Dermatology.

Sherry Ershadi and John S. Barbieri, M.D., from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to synthesize the available data regarding the safety and efficacy of at-home LED devices in the treatment of mild-to-moderate acne.

Based on data from six studies (216 participants; age range, 12 to 50 years), the researchers found that compared with control, the LED devices resulted in greater percent change in inflammatory lesions (45.3%; I2 = 43.2%; five studies), noninflammatory lesions (47.7%; I2 = 83.22%; four studies), and the Investigator Global Assessment (45.7%; I2 = 54.85%; four studies).

Comment: Acne has diverse causes and can significantly impact mental health, making this study on red light therapy promising, as it shows potential effectiveness.

If red light therapy hasn't significantly improved symptoms consider exploring the options below before turning to Accutane, antibiotics, or spironolactone. While these treatments can be effective in some cases, they may also come with serious side effects. See also: Red light therapy benefits, research & mechanism of action and The Health & Wellness Show: Lightening up: The Benefits of Photobiomodulation

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Report: More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight by 2050

Andrew Gregory and Kat Lay
The Guardian
Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:43 UTC
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© Chris Radburn/PAAbout 2.11 billion adults aged 25 or above and 493 million children and young people aged five to 24 are overweight or have obesity.
More than half of adults and a third of children and young people worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050, posing an "unparalleled threat" of early death, disease and enormous strain on healthcare systems, a report warns.

Global failures in the response to the growing obesity crisis over the past three decades have led to a staggering increase in the numbers affected, according to the analysis published in the Lancet.

There are now 2.11 billion adults aged 25 or above and 493 million children and young people aged five to 24 who are overweight or obese, the study shows. That is up from 731 million and 198 million respectively in 1990.
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Ambulance

WHO says poisoning suspected in DR Congo mystery illness


Medical Express
Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:45 UTC
congo street scene
© Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA street in Ndjili Kinshasa DRC
Poisoning is suspected in an unexplained outbreak of illness in western DR Congo, the World Health Organization said Friday.

The health scare is the latest to befall the poor central African country that has seen outbreaks including mpox, as well as deadly violence in its conflict-wracked east.

In the western province of Equateur, there have been nearly 1,100 illnesses and 60 deaths since the start of the year showing symptoms including fever, headaches, joint pain and body aches, according to the WHO.

The UN agency's emergencies director Mike Ryan said an investigation was underway, but tests had been negative for hemorrhagic fevers such as Marburg and Ebola.
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Biohazard

From brain fog to allergies: The health risks of mold and how to tackle it

JoJo Novaes and Connie Lai
Epoch Health
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
mold spray clean
© Yury Nikolaev/Shutterstock
Mold is more than just an aesthetic problem in a home; it can also pose a threat to your health. Exposure to mold has been linked to conditions, including allergic rhinitis, asthma, and even cognitive issues like brain fog.

In the "Health 1+1" program, Shao-Hung Wang, professor and chair of the Microbiology, Immunology, and Biopharmaceuticals Department at National Chiayi University in Taiwan, discussed the increasing number of mold-related poisoning incidents in recent years. He cited the 2004 contamination of Pedigree dog food, which led to kidney failure in approximately 6,000 dogs in Taiwan alone. More recently, in March of last year, toxic puberulic acid was found in red yeast rice supplements from Japan's Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, a drug-maker company, resulting in over 100 deaths.

During the program, Wang outlined effective strategies for mold prevention and removal, including essential cleaning products to help keep it at bay.
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