A child dies of measles in West Texas outbreak
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/ Updated By Erika Edwards
A school-age child has died of measles in West Texas, the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States. The child had not been vaccinated against measles, according to the city of Lubbock's health department.
The death, confirmed by Katherine Wells, the Lubbock health department's director of public health, is part of a fast-moving outbreak that's infected at least 124 people — mostly children — in rural West Texas.
The official tally of people who have been hospitalized is 18, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
That number isn't up to date, said Dr. Lara Johnson, a pediatrician and the chief medical officer at Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock.
Johnson said in an email that her team has cared for "around 20" kids with measles so far.
A health worker administers a measles test at a mobile testing site in Seminole, Texas, on Friday.Julio Cortez / AP
All of those kids, she said, were admitted because they were having trouble breathing. None had been vaccinated against measles.
The outbreak has been limited so far to parts of Texas bordering New Mexico. That state has also reported nine measles cases, but officials have not said whether they are connected.
This is the first measles death to be reported in the U.S. since 2015, when a Washington woman died. Health officials at the time said she'd likely been exposed at a clinic in a rural part of the state that was experiencing an outbreak.
Measles was considered eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 because of widespread use of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Two doses of the shot are 97% effective in preventing the disease.
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Texas, New Mexico and California................I see a trend here..................wonder what they have in common?......./S
Don't they all share a border with Mexico?
Oh my God that's hilarious! So clever! /s
Do you understand how disease works? It has nothing to do with proximity to Mexico.
I personally have been vaccinated against Measles. A thousand people could come from Mexico or any place else - all infected with measles - and walk through my yard. I still wouldn't get measles because I have been vaccinated.
Unfortunately, there are - in AMERICA - quite a few AMERICAN CITIZENS who don't get their children vaccinated. Why?
I think some are probably just too fucking lazy to drag their kid to the doctor.
Others want to vaccinate their kids but may not be able to afford medical costs because Republicans in Congress hate the idea of helping poor people get medical care, even though they loooove the idea of giving subsidies to billionaires and corporations.
Others have been listening to professional dumbasses like RFK Jr who have been telling them that vaccines cause autism or some other malady.
So it's not people coming from Mexico who are to blame for the spread of measles. It's all the unvaccinated Americans who should either know better or have better access to basic medical care.
rwnj's have been blaming undocumented immigrants for drugs and diseases for over a century. it usually starts right after the crops are all in ...
No they share a border with moron anti-vaxers.
Exactly.
I had measles before I was old enough to be vaccinated. I lived in West Virginia at the time. Geography isn't my strong suit, but I don't think WV shares a border with Mexico.
I remember a spring back in the 90s when the WV high school state championship games for some spring sports were canceled because of a measles outbreak in Wheeling. Again, nothing to do with Mexico.
... truth. I literally laughed out loud when I read that ...
I got measles and chicken pox in the early 60's the old fashioned way, my mom sent my siblings and me down the street to the house whose kids already had the malady du jour, along with all the other neighborhood kids. for some reason I seem to remember that there were 2 types of measles back then, regular and severe.
Arvo...there were two types here... ordinary measles and German measles..I copped the German ones numerous times..
I also got chicken pox as a kid ...and have copped two lots of bloody shingles..which I have now been vaccinated against..
The last lot put me in hospital for 10 days and that's 4 years ago...I still have problems with the area they broke out on..
So if you have had chicken pox I strongly urge anyone to get vaccinated.. shingles is the pits..
yeah, I thought so, thanks for remembering those measles facts. I reckon it's the german measles that are raging thru the goober thumpers, seeing as how there's a nazi fan boy in the white house now.
I've had shingles twice, but since I only had 1 chicken pox on my body when I was a kid, it was only a burning rash the size of my thumb on my left forearm. I can't even imagine the discomfort of a full blown shingles rash.
Yep shingles is a shocker..
Had it on my left side of my head from the top down to my ear, then it started towards my eye but the medication stopped it etc..
It still burns and itches 4 years down the track..
Paid $540 for the vaccine best money I have ever spent...4 months later the government brought it in that it was now free...glad no one else has to go through it unless they enjoy pain..
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You're not supposed to make those kinds of connections. It insinuates that the previous administration and its "Border Czar" was actually a failure. And that makes some people cry.
So it's mexico's fault that people in the US don't get their kids vaccinated? Seems like a bit of a stretch if ya ask me.
well, the problems certainly can't be blamed on any white xtians, no matter what side of the border ... /s
If I meant Mexico, I would have said Mexico. I referenced the failures the Democrats gaslit you all into believing were viable candidates. Please try to keep up.
Here in SE NM, we are starting to see more illnesses than we've seen in YEARS and, being 32 miles from El Paso, we expect to see more.
Count on it..............
These Mennonites don't care about anyone outside their community; they are going to heaven and everyone else is going to hell, it doesn't really matter about their own ethnicity.
that part of texas is ripe with religious wacko compounds ...
the mennonite wackos in western colorado have a stranglehold on the construction industry by abusing child labor and subcontractor laws.
I see your thinking.... but not exactly.
About 91 percent of Texas children born in 2020 - betcha they include just children born of U.S. citizens considering the age ranges of the disease parameters.
They're not.
And the idea that this is an illegal alien thing doesn't work in a dozen ways.
The overwhelming number of illegal kids are vaccinated. It's free at clinics everywhere with no immigration questions (as it should be, for very obvious reasons). It's also required for public school.
They didn't walk their happy asses through cartel infested jungle all the way from Guatemala only to say "there is a free shot that will keep my child from getting a terrible disease that's common back home?... No... I'll have none of that." This is literally one of the key reasons they came here in the first place.
Let's also don't ignore the fact that showing up at the county hospital with a disease none of the locals get because they've all had their shots is a very easy way to attract lots of attention and get deported back to whatever shithole they came from.
Finally, after you've walked all that way, are you really going to stop in Seminole County, Texas, like you've finally arrived at the land of milk and honey that looks very much like the shithole you left with an added Wal Mart?? Of course not. Less than 10% of Seminole county is foreign born. 18% of Dallas County is foreign born, and we don't have a measles issue.
This is all about religion.
Gaines county is only 86% vaccinated, well below the herd threshold ( 93% ? )
it's all about the Mennonites.
... religious freedom, y'all ...
Sure. Until somebody's freedom impinges on my family's health. I don't have grandchildren yet, but I know my daughter will get them their shots. But what if one of them has an autoimmune disease that makes getting vaccines iffy or a big NO. Then they will be subjected to the Mommies who didn't vaccine their kids because of their "religious freedom"
Yep, including Bibles in OK classrooms, no Torah or Korans, though; and many conservative Texans have a god given hard on to approve a school voucher system for private religious schools....well, because.
there's no limit to the unconstitutional and unamerican activities they will partake, just to own the libs ...
Keep wondering.
They all have an increasing number of polio cases. (If you're not familiar with that, here's an article that describes what's going on there)
And, perhaps (just a wild guess), but I have a hunch that they all have significant groups of people who aren't vaccinated.
oh no, a measles outbreak in an anti-vax religious cult in bufu texas. whoever will they blame it on this time?
Most of them were probably unvaxxed when their parents illegally crossed the border
they look a bit pale to be undocumented immigrants, and it's in the part of texas where geezus rules the am/fm airwaves.
Where did you see pictures? Ya didn't . There weren't any in the article. I suspect just another weak assed work in for the virtue signaling crowd
gee, go figure. I get my information on stories that interest me from more than 1 news outlet ...
Well, go figure. Show us the photos from your "other sources" then since you brought it up. You know. Back up your bullshit.
You mean the illegals that democrats are fighting so hard to protect?
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You made the claim, you back it up. That's how it works. So pony up please or admit you were just trying to start a fire with bullshit for kindling. Thanks.
Comment 1 is still smoldering.
They have interviewed the Moms on Fox news, they were white home schoolers who refused the vaccines.
Who are/were Mennonites who started arriving from Mexico in 1977. Not all were/are legal aliens.
I don’t see you demanding proof from all the people here pointing the finger at Mexico or migrants.
Mexican Mennonites arrived from Canada 100 years ago after leaving Russia and Germany.
Yes, they are legal Mexicans, but ethnically Dutch speaking Caucasians from northern Europe and extremely law abiding no matter where they reside, whether it's Kulpsville PA., Columbus OH, Ontario Canada or Mexico.
They are known to be fastidious about obeying the law. While some are old school, more closely related to the Amish Old Ways, many are modern embracing a certain amount of electricity. In my youth in PA they used to paint their cars entirely black; everything except the lights and windows while still dressing like the Amish.
Many really don't know the impact the Mennonites have had on many areas. Your comment sent me to the "what/where/who" gig - and, tell you what - I was/am surprised.
Thanks Split for providing that.
more here...
Who are the Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading?
I can only refer you to my comments at 2.1.13 and 2.1.15.
They are certainly unvaxxed Americans. The rest of your comment is assumption and wrong.
I can only refer you to my comments at 2.1.13 and 2.1.15.
They are certainly unvaxxed Americans. The rest of your comment is assumption and wrong.
Um, no...
Mennonites around here tend to live fairly modern lives. Some of the nurses on the L&D floor when I had my son were Mennonite. They were certainly comfortable with education for women, modern medicine, etc. The only way I could tell the difference was that they wore long scrub skirts and kapps.
The Mennonite communities in Oklahoma range from horse and buggy primitives in pioneer clothing to the high rollers with college degrees, private jets, alligator boots and million dollar combines.
They do love those Kapps
You don't know close to the truth that is...nah...you do know
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I offered you facts about American and Mexican Anabaptist attitudes towards the law and vaccines and their similarities to the Amish.
I am not and have never been interested in your biases or "trick" questions.
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Some one already has. First comment
Biden obviously, and when that fails, Obama.
they have to keep the answers very simple for the maga base ...
It's 2025. The MMR vax has been around for 60 years. Children dying of measles should not happen
Interesting history 'bout this little medical issue -
Prevention actually began long time ago in various pockets of the world ('bout 200 BCE) with Cotton Mathers and Edward Jenner as pioneers in the U.S. in the early 1700's.
A lot of the negative hype about vaccines, particularly from Hollywood and MAGA, came from the popular yet false correlation of the increased diagnosis of hyper activity and the autistic spectrum. My Mom was a State Reading Specialist for Nixon's newly formed Department of Education who worked with multiple school districts to improve reading scores. She participated in the very best continuing adult professional continuing education available including summer courses at Harvard and other top universities to stay on top of the curve. What the entire educational establishment DID NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND YET in the 70s and 80s about "The Spectrum" still makes her sad. Vaccines Did Not Cause An Increase In Autism. Professional educators have only fairly recently begun to understand those things, but the underlying issue haven't changed in either severity or truly increasing incidence. Kids with suffering in varying degrees from the autism spectrum were always there, they were just undiagnosed, misunderstood and left behind...
exactly
Agree
Another thing is, parents used to not want their child labeled as "Disabled" in any way. But now, a diagnosis of autism can earn a family thousands of dollars disability income. This has led to parents basically demanding that their children be diagnosed with any and all possible kinds disabilities, for the $...
A very good point and this skews the statistics that some use to blame vaccines for autism.
Years ago, sometimes parents hid or sent away children that had problems.
"Foster Parents" are infamous among doctors for demanding a disability diagnosis for every child under their care, because their stipend per child can be twice as much as for the non-disabled.
South Dakota is the perfect example.
This is so true. I can remember taking my kids to gym classes when they were little, about 10 or 15 years ago, and overhearing moms (already better off than me) who were actually excited that their kids were on the spectrum somewhere. They’d be advising each other about who to talk to about getting diagnosed by the right people, getting the best coaches and money, and so on. They really sounded pumped about it.
The thing is, one of my kids is on the spectrum (barely) and it has always been serious business for me. She’s a straight A college student now with a boyfriend, but social life is a little awkward for her. She deals, though. We all do. I just never thought of her as some kind of avenue to new entitlements. Maybe I should have, but I’m just not wired that way.
And, by the way, I could see it in her before she was ever vaccinated for anything.
It really strikes us a genetic thing. My father in law was a little bit like that, but it’s not the kind of thing anyone ever diagnosed in him. It’s just something we recognize in retrospect. And then, my oldest kid has a son who is very autistic. It’s nothing anybody did to them, though. It’s just who they are.
Some of the smartest people I know are on the spectrum.
I suspect a few of my family are undiagnosed Asperger's...
Among us cousins we all call it, "Ass Burner's Syndrome".
This appears to have started in an isolated community of Mennonites in Gaines County and has spread into New Mexico. Fortunately an 'easy' target is available. /S
Which easy target is that? Illegal immigrants or MAGA?
migrants
That's who they want to blame but I believe those Mennonites are not migrants
The tight-knit Mennonite community in Gaines County , , , settled in West Texas from Mexico in 1977.
So we're talking about 2nd generation Americans, at least. Probably 3rd.
I think this is really wonderful moment for America to put an end to all these vaccinations. What have they ever accomplished, after all??
When's the last time you had polio or measles or smallpox or diphtheria or etc..?????
My sister had polio... before Salk. Does that count?
Well...my kids never got measles or the mumps. I did.
As did I, but, unlike you, I was born before the vaccines were available.
I do remember the sugar cubes though
I got measles AND chicken pox as a kid and WAS vaccinated according to the laws at the time.
You must be younger than me. I didn't get the MMR until I was 6 in 1968. I got the measles when I was a baby and the mumps when I was 4
I got all the shots and got the measles in 3rd or 4th grade, in the summer so I did not get to stay home from school for 2 weeks like some kids
No older. In '61, it was strictly a measles vaccine and I had to get it in order to start school. I got the measles (disease) in fourth grade as well as CP
That sucks. When I got Scarlet Fever I was out about 2 weeks...in the spring.
That vaccine must not have been very effective back then. Well, now you have double or maybe even triple protection if you went thru basic training.
Many people think that a vaccine is meant to totally prevent a person from getting a disease. But IIRC, I believe in many cases they are designed to keep you from from getting the disease-- but in some cases while they don't prevent everyone from getting the diesease, what happens is that if some vaccinated people do get the diesease...its in a much milder form.
Sad beyond belief that people are so ignorant as to the harm measles can cause.
This kind of preventable tragedy will repeat over and over since Trump appointed RFK who's the biggest anti-vax crusader.
When asked about it, Trump snapped “what’s the big deal, it’s one measly kid.”
now that trump has successfully divided the country with previous pandemic propaganda in his last term, americans now get to witness the incompetence of a trump administration, with an anti-vaxer running the dept, managing a known contagious disease with a vaccine that's already been developed ...
If and when this gets completely out of control it will obviously be Biden’s fault. Or Obama maybe. Maybe Hillary.
... the deep state.
One kid of hundreds has died in TX
IMNAAHO, that's one too many.
It sure is
I truly feel sorry for any kids born into a family with thumpers for parents ...
Ok, so honest question... what would we do about that? Do we just round up the kids and forcibly inject them, violating their families' religious beliefs?
I'm all for kids getting vaccinated, but I'm not sure how we do that when their parents won't allow it.
Start by blaming the dumbasses who refuse to vaccinate their lousy kids and quit blaming immigrants unless you want to stop international travel, business and tourism instead!
... a couple more mismanaged pandemics should fix that problem.
How does that accomplish anything more than making you feel better?
Do you imagine Mennonite parents give a shit what non-believers blame them for?
Do you imagine Mennonite parents give a shit what non-believers blame them for?
Once again, religion poisons everything.
the leading killer of mankind since the dawn of time ...
Pun intended?
Well I guess that family will spend a life time now thinking....what if..
Feel sad for the child they put at risk and they have now paid the ultimate price...
... the holy rollers here usually have big enough litters that one or two gone missing doesn't hinder the next religious holiday much.
Let Sall Pox out and see how quickly these fucking idiots change their tune.