Morphine Prince 109,653 Posted March 1, 2025 Share Posted March 1, 2025 DALLAS (AP) — The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated school-aged child, health officials said Friday. The number of cases — Texas’ largest in nearly 30 years — increased by 22 since Tuesday. The Texas Department of State Health Services said cases span over nine counties in Texas, including almost 100 in Gaines County, and 20 patients have been hospitalized. The child who died Tuesday night in the outbreak is the first U.S. death from the highly contagious but preventable respiratory disease since 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The child was treated at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, though the facility said the patient didn’t live in Lubbock County. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official and a vaccine critic, said Wednesday that the U.S. Department of the Health and Human Services was watching cases but dismissed the outbreak as “not unusual.” But on Friday afternoon, Kennedy said in a post on X that his heart went out to families impacted by the outbreak, and he recognized “the serious impact of this outbreak on families, children, and healthcare workers.” Kennedy went on to say in the post that his agency will continue to fund Texas’ immunization program and that ending the outbreak is a “top priority” for him and his team. The virus has largely spread through rural, oil rig-dotted West Texas, with cases concentrated in a “close-knit, undervaccinated” Mennonite community, state health department spokesperson Lara Anton has said. Gaines County has a strong homeschooling and private school community. It is also home to one of the highest rates of school-aged children in Texas who have opted out of at least one required vaccine, with nearly 14% skipping a required dose last school year. Read more: https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-texas-vaccination-rfk-7e1df8310d6e139010ab7f4e4069c199 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
27monster27 15,850 Posted March 1, 2025 Share Posted March 1, 2025 He deserves to see every dead and/or suffering person. Make the perpetrator bear witness his crimes. he/him/his Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastic Flower 5,586 Posted March 1, 2025 Share Posted March 1, 2025 Who would have thought… Rest in piece little kid. You deserved better. Drop it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taumaturg0 1,350 Posted March 1, 2025 Share Posted March 1, 2025 antivaxxx parents should be prosecuted for child endangerment. Sorry not sorry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roughhouse Dandy 13,605 Posted March 1, 2025 Share Posted March 1, 2025 Texas? Anti-vaxx conspiracy theory safe haven hit by the 1st deadly measles outbreak in the nation in a decade? I'm shocked. How could this have happened? This is my Hannah Montana™️ lipgloss. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PartySick 172,464 Posted March 1, 2025 Share Posted March 1, 2025 40 minutes ago, Taumaturg0 said: antivaxxx parents should be prosecuted for child endangerment. Sorry not sorry Oh absolutely. In a perfect world not vaccinating your kid(s) would be grounds for neglect charges and removing that child from that home. No exceptions other than medical issues preventing a child from getting vaccinated. Whimsical bitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
River 127,344 Posted March 1, 2025 Share Posted March 1, 2025 not feeling sorry for them, they baked this cake perfectly, now it's time to choke. sorry for the kids though, but the had to be born to better parents. I have 0 sympathy to any MAGA person or state. So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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