Texas Measles Outbreak Nears 100 Cases, Raising Concerns About Undetected Spread
Health officials expect a measles outbreak in West Texas to exceed 100 cases because of low vaccine rates and undetected infections. Vaccine misinformation and new laws may make such situations more common and harder to contain.
Gottlieb "very concerned" about Texas measles outbreak: "I think this will spread"
"I think that this is going to get into the hundreds of cases and could take many months to fully snuff out," Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the FDA, said about the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico.
There is a measles outbreak in the South Plains region of Texas, with 58 confirmed cases, primarily in Gaines County, which ...
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Measles is a respiratory virus that can survive in the air for up to two hours. Up to 9 out of 10 people who are susceptible ...
Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where ...
Gaines County borders Lea County, New Mexico. The NMDOH said that the teen in New Mexico had not traveled across the ...
GAINES COUNTY — The Texas Department of State Health Services said there were 24 cases of measles in Gaines County ...
The U.S. declared measles eliminated in 2000 "thanks to a very high percentage of people receiving the safe and effective ...
The number of measles cases in Texas has grown to 90 with two more West Texas counties reporting infections, according to the ...
Texas’ largest outbreak of measles in 30 years has reached 90 cases, the Texas Department of State Health Services said ...
A news release said the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reports (as of Feb 12): — 24 cases of measles ...
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Fifteen cases of measles reported in small West Texas county with high rate of vaccine exemptionsbecause Gaines County has many children who are homeschooled and whose data would not be reported. The measles, mumps ...
A rapid rise in and around rural Gaines County on the border with New Mexico has seen 14 confirmed and six probable cases.
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Only five of the infected individuals were vaccinated, with the rest either unvaccinated or having unknown vaccination status ...
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