Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

Measles cases in North Carolina rise to 24 since December: health officials There have now been 24 reported cases of measles in North Carolina since December 2025, state health officials confirmed Tuesday.

RFK Jr’s measles outbreak in South Carolina, our neighboring state, has spread to NC

It’s his dream of course—all part of his extreme anti-vaxx, anti-science, conspiracy theorist, eugenicist plans for the US—but it’s our nightmare

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It’s definitely anything but lightly.

March is colorectal cancer awareness month.

I lost one of my college roommates to this disease in 2023. She was only 51.

It is recommended that those who are at average risk start getting screened at age 45.

I’ll bet you know someone who hasn’t started.

It’s time for them to get screened.

Report: Nearly 95k science employees left government as Trump downsized agency workforces The Trump administration also has cut spending on science contracts and grants.

Talk about a brain drain.
95k is a lot!
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The people — and research — lost in the NIH exodus | CNN Sylvia Chou, 51

Portraits of some of the researchers that The Regime has run off.

We are losing so many excellent researchers.

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I deleted my post about this. It was just wrong and I should have dug more first.

I strive to be as accurate as possible and this was my mistake.

Therefore, I deleted my post on this topic.

Friends, I did some more digging. In 2025, the CDC issued a similar Travel Health Notice about polio for 41 countries.

It’s important to know this, because while cutting funding for USAID and the WHO is undoubtedly causing disease and deaths, it cannot be blamed for last year’s notice.

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There is a saying about public health that is associated with Johns Hopkins, one of the best public health institutions in the world:

“Saving lives a million at a time”.

With RFK Jr. in charge of public health, it flips to:

“Taking lives a million at a time”.

Agree. And WHO.

I think many already are TBH.

I’m sorry, that must have been terribly difficult for all of you. 💜

I’m so sorry to hear that. How awful.

They sure do.

We absolutely suck right now. We’re the worst.

Oh for sure. I rarely guarantee anything because nothing is ever guaranteed, but I’m pretty close on this.

Yes. Many of us were asked if we thought RFK Jr’s pathological behavior would result in polio cases popping up in the U.S. and 100% of us have said yes.

A world map showing the countries that have reported a case of polio within the last year. They are: AFRICA 1. Algeria 2. Angola 3. Benin 4. Burkina Faso 5. Cameroon 6. Central African Republic 7. Chad 8. Côte d'Ivoire 9. Dem. Rep. of the Congo 10. Ethiopia 11. Ghana 12. Guinea 13. Niger 14. Nigeria 15. Senegal 16. Somalia 17. South Sudan 18. Sudan 19. Tanzania 20. Zimbabwe EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 21. Afghanistan 22. Djibouti 23. Pakistan 24. Gaza 25. Israel 26. Yemen 28) 3 EUROPE 27. Finland 28. Germany 29. Poland 30. Spain 31. United Kingdom WESTERN PACIFIC 32. Papua New Guinea

The CDC has just issued a Travel Health Notice specifically related to polio popping up in about 30 countries.

They recommend making sure you’re up to date on your vaccinations, and if you are traveling to one of the countries in red, you should consider a booster.

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Yep.

I’m so sorry this is happening. There is now a vaccine that could have prevented my cancer. I can relate.

Read it

Yep yep

Note also that the words he has chosen are intentionally meant to evoke a comparison between vaccination and sexual assault. This is not a new strategy for the anti-vaccine movement, either.

Arizona House passes vaccine mandate ban; Senate, voter approval needed A push to end vaccine mandates in Arizona comes as the state reports 275 measles cases since early 2025. HCR 2056 is off to the Senate. If approved, there it would appear on the November 2026 ballot.

“Just because I am at risk doesn’t mean I can invade your body because of my risk factor. That’s not okay.”

These are the words of AZ state rep Nick Kupper (R, Nazi Germany) in sharing his belief that immunocompromised people don’t deserve to be protected by vaccine requirements for school entry.

Arizona House passes vaccine mandate ban; Senate, voter approval needed A push to end vaccine mandates in Arizona comes as the state reports 275 measles cases since early 2025. HCR 2056 is off to the Senate. If approved, there it would appear on the November 2026 ballot.

The Arizona State Legislature just got one step closer to a November ballot proposition that would ban any childhood vaccine requirements for school entry.

AZ House Republicans have passed it and now it’s on to the Senate Republicans.

I wish I could. I feel that way sometimes too. 💜

Yikes.