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u/FlyingDutchLady 3d ago
Four people on my block have broken legs and all four of them also got an MMR vaccine. Coincidence??????
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u/Civil-Dinner 3d ago
Prices of eggs have climbed for everyone that has gotten a vaccine in America. I just don't think you can dismiss the connection. /s
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u/chet_brosley 3d ago
All of my grandparents got all kindsa vaccines throughout their lives and they're all dead now. Coincidence?!
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u/Striker660 3d ago
I'd worry more about radiation exposure to that area of the hospital.
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u/adactylousalien 3d ago
What’s odd about this case is that it’s affecting the nurses only, not doctors, techs, janitors, etc.
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u/DeaddyRuxpin 3d ago
Could be the length of time they spend on the floor or could be something specific to the nurses station. I’d wonder if there is something like an X-ray room directly above the nurses station with inadequate shielding between floors.
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u/Kevsterific 3d ago
Or it could be entirely made up for all we know
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u/adactylousalien 3d ago
Not made up. The story attributing this to vaccines is, of course, but there are 5 nurses in the same unit at a MA hospital with brain tumors. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/5-nurses-work-floor-massachusetts-hospital-brain-tumors-rcna199798
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u/sneaky-pizza 2d ago
lol so they just upped it to 10
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u/missanthropy09 2d ago
No, if I understand correctly, the title is wrong (outside of the obvious vaxxed part). There are five nurses from the floor with brain tumors, and ten nurses altogether from that floor who are unusually ill.
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u/missanthropy09 2d ago
I live in the area and it’s a big news story out here. The hospital is well-renowned, and had done an investigation before it made it to the news. Because they couldn’t find any medical link, the hospital concluded the investigation. That’s when the nurses went to the media.
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u/Psychobabble0_0 1d ago
I remember a reddit post from a pregnant nurse who was freaking out because she worried radiation could affect the fetus. She and other nurses would be ordered to stay in the x-ray area without shields instead of behind walls.
Maybe this is a common short-cut ordered by bosses in US hospitals?
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u/roybatty2 1d ago
This seems like a very good guess. Hopefully it’s figured out so no one else in the unit falls ill.
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u/lissabeth777 3d ago
Or it could be some other weirdness in the building. One of my old employers had a much higher than normal incidence of fast growing cancers among many current and former employees. Lots of people are curious to see if there was maybe asbestos or something else nasty in the building. Or maybe it's just really poor luck?
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u/Boring-Philosophy-46 3d ago edited 3d ago
Radon, thoron, phenols, formaldehyde etc so many options. Also radioactivity, it's happened that radioactive surveying equipment got lost and ground up into concrete and used in construction... Also even just ozone from photocopiers and benzenes and just so, so many possible things that can mess with people. Fire retardants, non-corrosive paints, chromium based finishes, even just regular paints and paint thinners, pesticides... I can keep going, I'll stop now but you get the idea.
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u/lissabeth777 3d ago
Well this building is in the same acre lot as a Honeywell facility. I think they did manufacturing there. Interesting I'll keep an eye on the rest of my former co-workers. Some of them have like 30 to 35 years working at that same building.
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u/Desucrate 3d ago
the English word for that would probably be railyard, with train yard as a synonym
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u/SnuggleBunni69 2d ago
If this is true, exactly where my mind went. Sounds like something is wrong in that wing of the hospital.
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u/GrownUpPunk 3d ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna199798
5 nurses with brain tumors. 6 nurses with “other health concerns”. Vaccines were never brought up in the story or in the investigation as far as I was able to find, and all of these nurses came forward to their union reps with workplace health & safety concerns.
But clearly it’s because they were all vaccinated.
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u/Jayrandomer 3d ago
That's where both of my kids were born. I am now a little worried.
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u/notronbro 3d ago
dude read the article. all the tumors were benign and they ruled out any environmental causes
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u/Jayrandomer 2d ago
I actually did read the whole article, which included the following from the nurses union:
“The hospital only spoke to a small number of nurses, and their environmental testing was not comprehensive,” he said in his statement. “The hospital cannot make this issue go away by attempting to provide a predetermined conclusion.”
Until they find a cause I will remain a little tiny bit worried.
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u/DirtyMarTeeny 2d ago
I understand being a tiny bit worried, but you have to think that if this is an environmental factor, it's something that's being caused by the nurses being exposed for so many hours days and years on end. It sounds like doctors and anesthesiologists and other people who spend time frequently on that wing have not had the same experience. So you and your baby are unlikely to have been affected
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u/Jayrandomer 2d ago
Yeah, it’s just a very little bit worried. Most stories on Reddit are places I’ve never even been near. I’ve been inside this area twice now for maybe a total of a week.
Realistically we face higher risk every day while driving.
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u/TrashPandaPatronus 3d ago
Insanity aside, this is actually a really interesting case I have been following as a hospital administrator. It's 5 nurses on an L&D unit, all brain tumors, but 3 different kinds. They have done really thorough environmental assessments and haven't found an external cause. And it's an L&D, so inherently by the function of the unit they have lower likelihood of handling chemo or radiation exposure. One thing I can think of is that 2 is a coincidence, but big enough a coincidence that the rest of the coworkers go get tested. 3 of the 5 are completely benign tumors. It's interesting, I know they are still looking into it.
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u/dorothea63 3d ago
It’s like the Phillies case - a statistically unlikely number of former Phillies players had brain cancer, something like three times the usual rate. They finally discovered that chemicals in the AstroTurf at the former stadium was probably to blame.
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u/ptrdo 3d ago
It is also worth considering why these nurses got into the profession in the first place. Many people go into medicine because they experienced its benefits (or tragedy) first-hand as children, meaning that the nurses could be predisposed to those cancers.
“Nursing at its Best: Competent and Caring,” explored nursing students' motivations for entering the profession and found that personal or family experiences with illness were significant factors influencing their decision…
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u/chickey23 3d ago
We do not know what other commonalities a cohort might have. They may have all been to the same stores, eaten the same foods, live in the same neighborhood, been exposed to the same animals. It might be easier to look for what they have in common as a whole with other diagnoses of the same cancer from other sites.
My money is on chemical exposure. They may be collecting some minor contaminant in their bodies that they uniquely come in contact with more than others.
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u/Boring-Philosophy-46 3d ago
Maybe multiple went to the same nursing programme a long time ago and were exposed to something there. Or at a previous job.
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u/YeOldeMuppetPastor 3d ago
Are we sure it’s not “Turbo Cancer”?
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u/theghostsofvegas 3d ago
Well, then.
I have the vaccine, but I’m not a nurse.
You guys think I’ll be ok?
I’m probably ok.
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u/RabidPlaty 3d ago
I hate to break it to you but you’re totally fucked. Your brain is all tumored and stuff now.
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u/Civil-Dinner 3d ago
Weren't we all supposed to die three years ago, because of the vaccine?
Given the current state of the US, I suppose it's possible we all did and are in actual hell.
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u/RabidPlaty 3d ago
Maybe we do all have tumors and this is just a collective fever dream? And we’re all going to come out of it any day now? Please?
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u/Villageidiot1984 3d ago
Regular people confuse correlation with causation all the time. Every person who has cancer also drank water. Is big water behind these tumors?
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u/happyhooker485 3d ago
It's actually only 5 people, and they're different type of tumors, so freak coincidence.
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u/dramallamacorn 3d ago
10 out of 100s of thousands. Couldn’t possibly be the something in the hospital since they all worked in the same department. No it must be vaccines.
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u/useless_teammate 3d ago
100% of people who've ever drank water have died or will die. Water is bad. Ban water.
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u/Seastarstiletto 3d ago
It wasn’t “simultaneously”. It was over the course of several years from the article and this is honestly pretty scary for whatever they are being exposed to in that ward
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u/oppernaR 2d ago
"10 nurses that went to NURSING SCHOOL diagnosed with brain tumors. Is EDUCATION causing CANCER?!"
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u/tielmobil 3d ago
This happened in my hometown. I think it was eventually traced back to a Nestlé plant.
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u/gb4efgw 3d ago
The article I'm reading says 5 people and is dated two days ago.
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u/ArtisticCustard7746 3d ago
Yeah. Something similar happens in one of our mill towns in my state. Everybody who lives there gets cancer pretty much.
It's crazy how much pollution alters our environment and bodies.
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u/belsonc 3d ago
I lost my best friend in his late 30s (approximately 8 years ago) to a cancer that, at best, starts hitting men in their late 40s if it hits early. There were other diagnoses of various cancers in young adults at his high school that shouldn't happen (a high school girl with colon cancer, if memory serves, for example). Considering that he was diagnosed around 2015, they were in high school in the late 90s, and there was an industrial plant in the area, I feel like there's only one logical conclusion to draw here:
Thanks Obama!
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u/greypusheencat 3d ago
remember during COVID they claimed and accused doctors of reporting every death as COVID ? oh how round the circle we’ve come. these people blame car accidents, carbon monoxide poisoning, drowning and wild animal attacks on the vaxx
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u/BlameTag 2d ago
That's what happens when a group of women work together for a while: their vaccine tumors synch up.
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u/Charchimus 3d ago
Its apparent that some people never took statistics. Yes they were all "vaxxed" lol but what ethnic backgrounds were they? Did they all smoke? What about alcohol consumption? Here's a fun one, did they all work in radiology? Did they all live in the same town? Did that town happen to be part of some high voltage power lines? No wait, none of those facts matter, because I mean, they were all vaxxed. Must be the vaccines.
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u/pimpmybongos 3d ago
Hmm.. I read this article yesterday and there were only five nurses with brain tumors. Go figure.
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u/GarmaCyro 2d ago
/J Every single person that's murdered at least one person has been exposed to hydrogen dioxide through out their life. We got to stop this right now.
Still interesting to hear about this case. Though only 5 were diagnosed, and they all are non-cancerous tumors.
And as other have noted, being vaccinated isn't an unique thing. Even in US over 90% of the population are vaccinated in one form or another.
Offical quote from the hospital: "It ruled out disposable masks, the water supply, nearby x-rays, and chemotherapy treatment on the floor below".
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u/DerbyWearingDude 1d ago
Credit where credit is due: the meme poster didn't write "begs the question."
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u/killjuice888 1d ago
So much idiocy. One fact is certain by the numbers. Having taking the vaccine batch these nurses took is correlated with cancer. Lmao.
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u/Civil-Dinner 3d ago
Almost all nurses are vaccinated, so there probably isn't a vaccine connection unless there is something like 3.2 million nurses with brain tumors in the US.
Which would also mean we'd have tens of millions of other people with brain tumors.
Maybe it's a selective vaccine component that only affects nurses who work on the fifth floor of a specific hospital?
There are so many leaps of logic required to even mention vaccines that you start to get the idea that anti-vax has become a pathology in itself.