rubella

मुंबई में खसरे का प्रकोप लगातार बढ़ता जा रहा है. गुरुवार को खसरे के कारण 8 महीने के बच्चे की मौत हो गई, जिसके बाद अबतक खसरे से कुल 13 बच्चों की मृत्यु हो चुकी है, जिसमें 8 बच्चे मुंबई के हैं और 3 बच्चे मुंबई से सटे भिवंडी और नालासोपारा इलाके के हैं. मुंबई में अबतक खसरे के कुल 252 मामले दर्ज किए गए हैं, जबकि खसरे के संदिग्ध मरीजों की संख्या बढ़कर 3695 हो गई है. 

Vax Matters exists to provide clarity when it comes to vaccines. Today’s episode brings in Dr. Sandra Guerguis, who will focus on measles, mumps and rubella, and the vaccine developed to defend against those diseases in children. Dr. Guerguis specializes in pediatric infectious diseases at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health Infectious Disease center in Baton Rouge.

In this episode we are interviewing a FORMER anti-vaxer and hope to shed some light on the other side of the story. For many of us it is hard to comprehend in this statistics driven world that some of our fellow citizens can remain so willfully ignorant in the face of overwhelming data.

Essential Oils, Crystals, Detoxing, Genetically Modified Organisms, Organic Food, Acupuncture, Aromatherapy, Chiropractic, Feng Shui, Iridology, Homeopathy, Magnets, Naturopaths, Reiki, Reflexology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tarot Cards, Palm Reading and drinking your own urine are just some of the Science Denial we discuss in this episode.

What are the consequences in adulthood of having been vulnerable and exposed to Vaccine Preventable Diseases as a child?

What role does politics play in the decision to not immunize?

How can the rest of us reach these free riding pariahs, coasting along on the privilege of herd immunity?

And WTF is a Homeopathic Prophylactic?

Find out in this inspiring journey out of the ego driven Dunning-Kruger bubble and into the enlightenment? 

This episode is a follow up the last episode ‘A Pox to You’ where we compared and contrasted the anti-vax movement of today with the hysterical response to Small Pox inoculations in a world filled with witches and demons 300 hundred years ago.

If you haven’t listened to the ‘A Pox to You’ episode yet, I highly recommend you go back after this one and have a listen. It has a lot of information relevant to this discussion and is an honest representation of the format this podcast usually follows. Which while being fact based is predominantly viewed through the lens of irreverent comedy. 

This episode covers six red rashes in children, including measles, scarlet fever, rubella (AKA German measles), Dukes’ disease, parvovirus B19 and roseola infantum.

Written notes can be found at https://zerotofinals.com/paediatrics/dermatology/viralexanthemas/ or in the dermatology section of the Zero to Finals paediatrics book.

The audio in the episode was expertly edited by Harry Watchman.

One morning when your daughter wakes up, you notice a rash on her face and she has a stuffy nose with a slight fever. She doesn’t seem overly sick, but by the next day, the rash has spread to more parts of her body. What is causing the rash? Is there anything you can do to treat it?

On today's quick shorty, after hearing a recent soundbite from brother RizzaIslam on IG, the PMA crew sits down to discuss some of the week's craziness in the news. Topics include; Jussie Smollet having charges dropped (did he do it or not), Cardi B may be going to jail, Missing activist found murdered, Russia on the brink of war with Venezuala, and the "vaccination experiement happening in Rockford NY for the next 30 days.