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The FDNY has ordered all firetruck and ambulance personnel to mask up while rendering patient care due to outbreaks of infectious diseases, The Post has learned.

The department-wide directive, issued Friday, comes amid an increase in COVID-19, flu and respiratory virus cases, officials said.

Effective immediately, all those who provide pre-hospital emergency treatment in NYC must wear a surgical mask, preferably an N95.  

The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has declared a national incident over a surge in measles cases across the country.

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Measles is a highly contagious disease. In mild cases, symptoms include a rash, high fever and ear infections. But it can also be "a very unpleasant illness," the UKHSA said, leading to hospitalization and death in rare cases. Babies, young children, pregnant women and those with a weakened immune system are most at risk.

With cases rising around the country, and Birmingham Children’s Hospital treating fifty cases in the last month alone, medical professionals are keen to address what they see as the root cause of measles amongst the nation’s children – thick, gullible parents.

Dr Simon Williams told us, “It’s a sad indictment of the nation’s parenting skills that hundreds of thousands of them are too dim to realise they are risking their child’s health by not getting them vaccinated.

“They think they’re doing the right thing because they read a fake news article about vaccines on a website that has the word ‘natural’ in the domain name, or because a disgraced dwarf MP told them vaccinations are evil.

“The real challenge isn’t to get more children vaccinated; it’s to stop more parents being ridiculously gullible online. If we can stop them from believing evidence-free nonsense about vaccines, then children will get vaccinated and avoid illnesses that are not only preventable, but are genuinely life-threatening to some.

“Unfortunately, a lot of them are too stupid to realise just how stupid they are being. There’s very little we can do to help those people, unfortunately.

Hans wrote: The U.S. CDC plans to drop its five-day COVID-19 isolation recommendations under new guidance planned by the agency

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Hans wrote:Onaj sam koji je dobio kovidčić sa slabim simptomima i kratkog trajanja, a sa KN maskom svuda.

A Glasgow woman is raising awareness of a rare condition after covid caused her brain to swell causing psychotic episodes - making her believe her mum was Boris Johnson.

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CDC Drops Five Day Covid-19 Isolation Despite Controversy

Judy Stone Senior Contributor

I am an Infectious Disease specialist and author of Resilience: One Family's Story of Hope and Triumph over Evil and of Conducting Clinical Research, the essential guide to the topic

Mar 1, 2024,05:26pm EST

Oregon and California recently lowered isolation guidelines from five days to only one day if symptoms had improved and the person hadn’t had a fever for 24 hours. The CDC is now following suit. They suggest that people continue wearing masks for five days after resuming normal activities.

Spoiler:

Mystery virus 'worse than Covid' affecting young adults in Swindon
A particularly nasty infection doing the rounds in Swindon is leading to otherwise-healthy young people needing extra oxygen.
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“Almost everyone I’ve spoken to – from out-of-hours GPs, paramedics, and hospital staff have said there’s something going around that’s affecting young people.

“The first nurse who treated my partner said she had never seen so many healthy young people getting admitted with viruses and temperatures, and nothing they’re doing is working.”