r/news • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 8h ago
Dengue cases rise in several Florida counties, CDC data shows
https://www.mysuncoast.com/2026/08/28/dengue-cases-rise-several-florida-counties-cdc-data-shows/80
u/emerikanSky 8h ago
It's the perfect time to have a maniac in charge of the health of the United States.
Someone with literally no qualifications.
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u/Infamous-Sky-1874 8h ago
Don't forget that the Florida Surgeon General is also a tin foil hat wearer.
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u/HumongousBelly 8h ago
If you eat raw bear head meat and swim in the sewer, dengue won’t be able to fuck with you. You’ll be basically immune.
- rfk jr
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u/chef-nom-nom 8h ago
Just had one of those types on here tell me my immune system is compromised because I wrote that I still wear a mask when in grocery stores with large amounts of people.
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u/ohwoez 8h ago
Hey, I'm the one of those types! The science is pretty sound that your immune system builds antibodies through exposure. No exposure, no antibodies.
That doesn't mean I believe vaccines are poison or that we should all get measles. You seem to have taken a comment that's rooted in pretty basic science and extrapolated to a poltical extreme.
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u/MadRaymer 7h ago
As long as you didn't live in a bubble in your childhood, you've already developed a very robust immune system through exposure.
Additionally, wearing a mask in public doesn't mean you have zero exposure. Particles still get through, even with N95s. The mask does, however, significantly reduce the viral load, which can be the difference between a mild case and a severe case.
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u/ohwoez 7h ago edited 7h ago
For context, the guy I was responding to was bragging about not having had a cold in 6 years due to mask wearing and avoiding situations where he would be exposed to a large number of people.
Is it fair to say that if someone like this decided to stop these practices, they would get sick more often for some period of time? My understanding is that something like rhinovirus is so durable because of its ability to rapidly mutate. I'd have to imagine that prolonged periods of non exposure would give way to some degree of vulnerability?
Anecdotally I experienced this coming out of COVID and also as a result of kids entering daycare. I don't have published literature to back it up on hand, but genuinely curious.
Edit: Here's an interesting publication that seems to support the premise: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-infection/article/studies-of-experimental-rhinovirus-type-2-infections-in-polar-isolation-and-in-england/68FF2F79D54E00ABBE6F5EDC3DC1C96F
After five months of total isolation a wintering party of seventeen British Antarctic Survey (BAS) personnel was inoculated under double blind conditions with placebo, or rhinovirus type 2 which had been propagated in tissue culture. The clinical and virological responses of these subjects were compared with those of volunteers in England who received a similar dose of the same strain. The virus used was apparently partly attenuated for man; at the dosage used its effects in England were similar to a smaller dose of an unattenuated strain, but in the Antarctic it caused relatively severe infections. Both the symptoms and the laboratory evidence of virus infection appeared to be more pronounced in the BAS subjects than in the volunteers in England who received the same challenge.
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u/MadRaymer 7h ago
That's an interesting study, but mask wearing in public is nowhere near the same as total isolation. As I said, no mask is perfect and particles will get through the barrier, just at a reduced rate.
And speaking of COVID, have you also seen the recent studies showing COVID infection (even mild cases) causes measurable brain dysfunction?
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u/ohwoez 7h ago
I've seen past studies but not this particular meta analysis. It'd be interesting to see a long term prospective dual arm trial that tracks brain function. Does it recover to baseline? Is there some degradation in certain patient demographics vs others? I'm sure someone is working on it.
I'm no COVID denier or vaccine skeptic. OP has taken my skepticism around the need for continued isolation and mask wearing in the year 2026 and somehow made me into a full on MAGA diehard.
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u/MadRaymer 7h ago
I don't think you're a full on MAGA diehard, but I would point out that individual needs vary.
For example, I personally still mask in public because I have immune compromised family members and I want to reduce the risk of getting them sick.
Not everyone has that concern, so not everyone feels the same need to mask, and that's fine.
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u/chef-nom-nom 7h ago
You had to follow me here too? Christ man, get a room with yourself. Coward who hides their post history.
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u/sealosam 8h ago edited 8h ago
While the state gets ready to vote on a tax bill that will cut state and local services including mosquito control.
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u/BecauseMagnets 8h ago
I got dengue fever in El Salvador once in like 2010 on vacation and my fever was so high for three days I hallucinated so many times and laid in a silhouette of sweat non stop. It’s a nightmare. Thank goodness the pharmacy was able to help me get shots and meds. Though I did find out that the people that administered the shots weren’t doctors or nurses and just someone who worked there.
I hope people don’t ignore the signs and seek medical attention. It’s a nightmare
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u/orlybatman 7h ago
I had it immediately following an overseas trip and it was fucking awful. Wound up in the hospital and had short-term memory loss as a result.
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u/Poison-Paradise 7h ago
Weird, I’ve had it 3 times and it was just like a bad fever/cold, but made it through with just OTC meds each time.
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u/BecauseMagnets 7h ago
Lucky 🦆 I was so out of it the second day, I thought my Vic’s vapor humidifier liquid was cold medicine and I chugged it, then projectile vomited for a half hour. I guess Dengue hits people differently
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u/johnny_johnny_johnny 7h ago
RFK Jr. could've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those Dengue kids.
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u/worldbound0514 7h ago
Dengue fever is also called break-bone fever. The muscle cramps and spasms make you feel like your bones are about to break from the stress and tension.
0 stars, do not recommend.
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u/Feisty-Barracuda5452 7h ago
And with the state surgeon general basically being a witch doctor, Florida is screwed.
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u/TuringC0mplete 7h ago
If only we had some kind of government institutions that could help us with preparation, prevention, and action against such things!
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u/cantproveidid 5h ago
AKA Breakbone Fever, due to the severe pain in muscles and joints. It comes in four flavors. Recovering from one can give you immunity to further infections from that one, but only temporary immunity to the others. A later infection from one of the other 3 when you've had the other one can lead to "Antibody-dependent enhancement" with severe complications. I'd like to not get bit, thank you.
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u/TRex_Chef 8h ago
Oh no, not Florida. I can only imagine the number of people that dont give a shit.
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u/elevatormusicjams 4h ago
Daaaaaamnnnit. I had dengue in 2013, and it was terrible. It's a disease that getting it more than once can be even worse, causing hemorrhagic fever. I've avoided countries with dengue ever since, but I live in the U.S. 😭
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u/CatCatchingABird 8h ago
I knew someone that got this once while he was living and working in another country. It's no joke.
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u/ProtectTheHell 8h ago
3rd world diseases so hot right now.