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Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/04/europe/russia-laboratory-plague-accident-intl
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u/meleecow 7h ago

I mean at this point you could give America the measels and it would mess up our society. Oh wait it's happening?

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u/za72 7h ago

always ahead of the curve

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u/Ok_Artichoke7830 6h ago

Hahaha, aw, hell.

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u/_ParadigmShift 6h ago

Just have to keep bringing in people that aren’t vaccinated and have no verification upon entrance.

That oughta do it!

The extreme majority of US kids in the public school system have been vaccinated for decades, if you see the under 6 years old number shoot way up that’s one thing but you’d better question every other metric

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u/Exciting_Spell5064 6h ago

While you completely ignore the whole anti vaccination movement happening in the country right now. But sure, continue blaming immigrants.

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u/_ParadigmShift 5h ago

The whole movement happening now of people who have been vaccinated at super high rates up to 2020ish? Yeah, all of those adults that already got the MMR as part of the public school system.

But sure, ignore that a lot of those countries have abysmal rates of vaccination like you can’t be mad about that. Just keep doing nothing to check about who crosses the border, it’ll work out great I’m sure.

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u/Exciting_Spell5064 5h ago

Woosh. You missed the point entirely. The adults who were vaccinated that are anti vaccination aren’t vaccinating their kids. Their kids get the disease, and pass it on to the kind who CAN’T get the vaccine who were safe because there WERE enough kids around them who were vaccinated. This is known as herd immunity; where when enough of the population is safe, the disease can’t find a carrier to get to the at risk kids. Herd immunity is going away because of stupid people, not immigrants, which is why the outbreaks are largely in red states.

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u/_ParadigmShift 5h ago

So you missed the entire point of my first comment where I say this hasn’t been a problem up until 6 years ago, and therefore the extreme majority of US kids got the MMR because of the public school system(and still do). Some of the largest outbreaks have started at an immigrant church and public food center that catered to mostly immigrants. It’s not xenophobic to say that there are countries with much much lower vaccination rates than even the reddest state, and we let their people flow in without a problem.

That threatens herd immunity far more than your red vs blue argument.

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u/HotButterscotch8682 3h ago

Oh look, another piece of racist human trash.

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u/_ParadigmShift 2h ago

Nope, I just believe democrats when they say we need to enforce borders.

You know, like Obama as a campaign promise.