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The CDC confirms over 1,000 measles cases in the U.S. this year, thanks to an army of Facebook PhDs still convinced vaccines are a Bill Gates microchip plot. Herd immunity is now just a nostalgic fantasy.

Phor reporting.

Another preventable crisis, brought to you by the internet’s worst group chat.

The CDC has confirmed over 1,000 measles cases across the U.S.

this year — the highest count in over three decades.

A disease once on the verge of extinction is now spreading again, powered by misinformation, paranoia, and a vocal minority that thinks a YouTube rabbit hole is medical school.

Let’s be clear: this outbreak didn’t come from nowhere.

It came from a sustained campaign of anti-vax rhetoric, mostly online, mostly unregulated, and almost entirely wrong.

Communities with low vaccination rates are now acting like Petri dishes, and kids too young to be vaccinated are paying the price for adult ignorance.

The usual suspects are out in force: Facebook PhDs claiming vaccines are mind-control nanobots, self-styled “truthers” arguing immunity should be natural (translation: let your toddler suffer), and political grifters turning science denial into a fundraising strategy.

Meanwhile, actual doctors — the ones who went to real schools — are scrambling to contain something that should’ve stayed in history books.

Hospital wards are full. Public health departments are issuing emergency alerts.

And entire school districts are back to quarantine drills, because apparently “herd immunity” now belongs in the museum next to floppy disks and common sense.

The tragedy? This was all avoidable. Measles has an extremely effective vaccine. One shot.

Two doses. Near-total protection. But that requires a functioning public health message — and trust.

Right now, both are collapsing under a decade of conspiracies and politicised science.

So now we’re back to basics: contact tracing, outbreak zones, and praying that enough people still believe in needles over nonsense.

🔻 This article is satire, inspired by real headlines.

Phor doesn’t care about your cousin’s Telegram thread — get the damn shot.

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