Texas measles outbreak update
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Anti-vaccine activists seized on a deadly outbreak in Seminole, setting off a battle between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.
Texas has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in decades. It has sickened more than 700 people in the state and killed two unvaccinated children.
A measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, caused hundreds of children to be hospitalized and caused the death of two girls. The rural community has one of the lowest childhood vaccination rates in the country.
Dr. Jennifer Shuford, Texas Department of State Health Services commissioner, joins the Standard with an update on efforts to contain the disease. The 89th Legislature is over – and so are lawmakers’ hopes for these bills Lawmakers filed nearly 9,000 bills this session, but only about 1,200 made it to the governor’s desk.
More than 1,100 measles cases have been reported in the United States this year, and the highly contagious virus has put people at risk while they wait in ERs and doctor’s offices — but also at a Shakira concert in New Jersey,
Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly 80% of the more than 2,000 U.S. counties with