Monday, February 17, 2025

In West Texas, Measles Outbreak Has No End in Sight

At least 49 cases have been confirmed. Health officials -- who are scrambling to get a handle on the vaccine-preventable outbreak -- suspect 200 to 300 people may be infected.

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"The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state's worst in nearly 30 years." apnews.com/article/meas ...

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-- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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... When Aganetha Unger pulled up her large, white van to the emergency measles testing site, several of her eight children were coughing.

"We had some sickness in the house, not very bad, but some fever, some cough," said Unger, who is Mennonite. One child, she said, had a fever of 103 degrees.

Her youngest getting tested was a 2-month-old, wrapped tightly in a pink blanket on her mom's lap. When the EMS team swabbed her nose, she didn't cry. ...

It was Thursday, eight days after the Texas Department of State Health Services first reported a measles outbreak on the rural, western edge of the state.

On Friday, the number of confirmed cases rose to 49, up from 24 earlier in the week, the state health department said. The majority of those cases are in Gaines County, which borders New Mexico.

Most cases are in school-age kids, and 13 have been hospitalized. All are unvaccinated against measles, which is one of the most contagious viruses in the world. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-16 03:08 PM

49 cases.. Soon to be zero!

It's just the flu. With bumps.

It will be gone by summer.

Especially if we quit with the testing.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-16 03:13 PM

"Most cases are in school-age kids, and 13 have been hospitalized. All are unvaccinated against measles, which is one of the most contagious viruses in the world"

MAGA is pathetic; retrograde. I never believed in the concept of a decayed culture before I met it.

Its unique coarseness and ignorance are best demonstrated by their sick children, suffering meaninglessly.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-16 03:51 PM

Why isn't the death of unvaccinated children who's parents refuse to get their children vaccinated not charged with voluntary manslaughter at least?? There's no excuse for this.

#4 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-16 04:38 PM

Pro life stops at birth.

After that, who cares.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-16 04:39 PM

Bigger and better outbreak than when Biden was in!
Yeehaw!
Mission accomplished!
Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
~ MAGAts

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-16 04:39 PM

In Seminole, Texas there is a large Mennonite community, which for the most part isnt vaccinated.

Bigger and better outbreak than when Biden was in!
Yeehaw!
Mission accomplished!
Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
~ MAGAts
#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Is it docs assertion measles spontaneously appeared in Seminole?

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-16 06:01 PM

spontaneously appeared in Seminole?

#7 | Posted by oneironaut

It's not spontaneous at all.

The measles had to be provided with the proper habitat.

It took advantage, as it was evolved to do.

A simple, ordinary shot would have thwarted it.

Why are you coming down on the side of the disease?

Having seen that since you unwashed bastards were dying of COVID.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-16 06:16 PM

Obligatory.

bsky.app

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-17 12:18 PM

#3 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2025-02-16 03:51 PM | REPLY | NEWSWORTHY 2: What they do not saying is whether or not any, or all those students are children of illegal parents I've no knowledge of any illegals getting immunizations.

#10 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-02-17 03:03 PM

Trumpanzee really is trying to dial things back to mid 20th century. He's not at all innovative. His goals are stale and outdated.

It won't make his senile @$$ any younger.

#11 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-02-17 03:22 PM

Let them eat cow pies and then croak. Texass!

#12 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-02-17 03:45 PM

"Let them eat cow pies and then croak. Texass!"

I take this back I did not know it was just children. Let their parents eat cow pies and die. There, fixed it.

#13 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-02-17 03:46 PM

What they do not saying is whether or not any, or all those students are children of illegal parents I've no knowledge of any illegals getting immunizations.

#10 | POSTED BY MSGT

Ashamed at the undeniable MAGA cultural fetish of avoiding immunizations?

I don't blame you.

You can always do better.

It's entirely up to you.

Casual racism isn't going to save you.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-17 03:54 PM

Heard on the radio today that the community needs to be 95 percent immunized to close out measles. 93 percent opens the door.

#15 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-17 07:09 PM

So, now you have heard about herd immunity. :)

#16 | Posted by mattm at 2025-02-17 09:37 PM

So now you have heard about herd immunity. :)

Posted by mattm at 2025-02-17 09:37 PM | Reply

Like these MAGA Trumpers understand what you're talking about. Sighhhhhhh

#17 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-17 09:46 PM

I was schooled on herd immunity during COVID, like most people.

If y'all think I'm a MAGAt, have at it. Check my posts.

#18 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-18 01:27 PM

""We had some sickness in the house, not very bad, but some fever, some cough," said Unger, who is Mennonite. One child, she said, had a fever of 103 degrees."

49 cases 13 hospitalized.

Ya, Measles is nothing. Wonder how much we are paying for those 13 hospital visits?

#19 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-02-18 04:03 PM

"One child, she said, had a fever of 103 degrees."

Fahrenheit or Celsius?

#20 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-02-18 04:08 PM

Tick-tock:

CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social

Ten more measles cases"58 total"confirmed in Texas outbreak

The latest update includes a case from Lubbock County, pushing the number of affected counties to 5.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

#21 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-18 04:09 PM

Maybe it won't take another pandemic but just the return of a slew of childhood diseases which kill a bunch of kids unnecessarily to wake people the f--k up?:

God help us if we have another pandemic during the next 4 years that affects children. The American people aren't going to be as sanguine about kids dying as they were about seniors dying during the Covid pandemic.
Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-01-23 09:40 AM

drudge.com

#22 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-18 04:24 PM

Texas measles cases are up, and New Mexico now has an outbreak

apnews.com

WINNING!!

#23 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-18 07:12 PM

Horrible, but an expected result of no vaccination. Guess that will teach them.

#24 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-02-18 09:05 PM

Horrible, but an expected result of no vaccination. Guess that will teach them.

#24 | Posted by dibblda

It will not.

#25 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-02-18 09:11 PM

@#24 ... Guess that will teach them. ...

Will it?


Your comment presumes an ability to learn from mistakes, as opposed to just listening to the dictates of a cult.



#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-18 09:19 PM

#23 Posted by reinheitsgebot

It really sucks when news outlets don't date their articles. Anyway, I read about New Mexico a few days ago.

#27 | Posted by et_al at 2025-02-18 10:15 PM

"One child, she said, had a fever of 103 degrees."

Fahrenheit or Celsius?
#20 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

All Texans use Celsius!

They found the family using him to heat the hot tub in the truck-boat-truck.

#28 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-18 10:21 PM

@#27 ... It really sucks when news outlets don't date their articles. ...

I am not sure what you mean.

When I visit that article, I see...

... Updated 3:55 PM EST, February 18, 2025 ...

A date.

What speak ye of?

#29 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-18 10:36 PM

Sorry, Firefox vs Chrome. The important part is this was out a few days ago.

#30 | Posted by et_al at 2025-02-18 11:09 PM

@#30

thx for that follow-up.

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-18 11:15 PM

@#30 ... The important part is this was out a few days ago. ...

Yeah, this seems to be a developing story (issue?).

For me, the most disturbing aspect is... [from the thread summary]

... Her youngest getting tested was a 2-month-old, wrapped tightly in a pink blanket on her mom's lap.

When the EMS team swabbed her nose, she didn't cry. ...


#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-18 11:20 PM

"Your comment presumes an ability to learn from mistakes, as opposed to just listening to the dictates of a cult."

You are probably right

#33 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-02-19 01:00 AM

"Trumpanzee really is trying to dial things back to mid 20th century."

He's trying to make America Great Again! Like when kids got preventable diseases because their parents are too stupid to get them vaccinated. Are vaccinations still required to register kids for public school? When my kids were it young they were required; schools had their shot record in their file. I think America is devolving.

#34 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-19 06:35 AM

Everyone in Abbottistan with a brain saw this coming.

#35 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-02-19 11:53 AM

Now 58 cases( soon to be zero!)

Now spreading to NM.

We wouldn't have this problem and no one would care if we would just stop with the testing.

#36 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-19 11:55 AM

The cure for measles is for Donald Trump to put a news blackout on reporting about it.

#37 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-19 12:06 PM

I can't think of any objective reason why the measles is not going sweep over about one-million square miles of MAGA Red States.

I'm not sure why they expected anything different to happen.

Except to think that they are a massive collection of truly stupid people who may not love their children nearly as much as they like to say they do.

#38 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-19 12:20 PM

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