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hatrack

(64,527 posts)
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 02:06 PM 18 hrs ago

National March For Forced Birth, Uh, Life May Have Been A Measles Superspreader, Per DC Health Department

Health officials are warning that confirmed cases of measles may have spread at this year's National March for Life rally and concert in Washington, D.C. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators converged upon the National Mall and other locations in the nation's capital for the annual event at the end of January. The DC Department of Health says it's working to identify people who are at risk.

"DC Health was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious," the agency said in a press release on Sunday. "DC Health is informing people who were at these locations that they may have been exposed."

Potential exposure sites from Jan. 21 to Feb. 2 include major transit such as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Union Station, an Amtrak Northeast Regional train and D.C.'s subway system, according to DC Health. The agency says infected individuals also visited the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Catholic University.

Children's National Hospital issued a public health notice concerning potential exposure in its Emergency Department. The notice said a Virginia resident, who was confirmed to have measles, visited the department while contagious on Feb. 2.

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https://www.npr.org/2026/02/08/nx-s1-5705972/measles-march-for-life-dc-reagan-national-union-station-metro

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National March For Forced Birth, Uh, Life May Have Been A Measles Superspreader, Per DC Health Department (Original Post) hatrack 18 hrs ago OP
And, of course... 2naSalit 18 hrs ago #1
But Dr. Oz is now saying that people should get the measles vaccine. Weird, huh? hatrack 18 hrs ago #2
I noticed that. 2naSalit 17 hrs ago #4
Our health "czar" admitted to having a worm in his brain and sounds like an escaped mental patient. Initech 18 hrs ago #3
Fux noose... 2naSalit 17 hrs ago #5
And also from Washington DC. Initech 17 hrs ago #7
Not enough of us are dying in hospital parking lots yet? They still need more? Maru Kitteh 17 hrs ago #6
Tourists will stop coming to the U.S. yardwork 17 hrs ago #8

Initech

(108,018 posts)
3. Our health "czar" admitted to having a worm in his brain and sounds like an escaped mental patient.
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 02:15 PM
18 hrs ago

God damn I want the adults back in charge and to kick Fox News out of the White House for good.

Initech

(108,018 posts)
7. And also from Washington DC.
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 02:25 PM
17 hrs ago

They are everywhere - Congress, the Senate, SCOTUS, most of our governor's offices, city councils, school boards...

Maru Kitteh

(31,431 posts)
6. Not enough of us are dying in hospital parking lots yet? They still need more?
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 02:23 PM
17 hrs ago

Can’t stop marching till we are all enslaved.

yardwork

(69,109 posts)
8. Tourists will stop coming to the U.S.
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 02:32 PM
17 hrs ago

Imagine living in a country with good public health policies and considering coming to the U.S., where you or your unborn child might catch measles and other potentially fatal diseases because the U.S. decided to turn its back on modern medicine.

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