First Measles Death in Texas

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

A school-age child has died of measles in West Texas, the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States.

Posted by mattm at 08:32 PM | 38 COMMENTS | permalink

#Breaking: A person hospitalized with measles has died in West Texas, marking the first death in an outbreak that began late last month.

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-- The Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews.com) February 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM

Comments

www.msn.com

50 seconds in the medical staff looked like they are treating an outbreak of EBOLA. If they have checked their titers recently no reason beyond a simple mask to dress in such protective gear.

#1 | Posted by mattm at 2025-02-26 11:24 AM

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases we know of. Worse than flu, small pox, whooping cough and six times more contagious than ebola.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-02-26 11:31 AM

"May you have the contagious disease epidemic you voted for."

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-26 11:32 AM

That is why titers are checked prior to starting in most health care settings, to see if you are immune.

#4 | Posted by mattm at 2025-02-26 11:32 AM

MAGA's Freedom Freckles are all the rage.

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-26 01:44 PM

... The disproven claims about the Texas measles cases echo misinformation spread by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about a 2019 outbreak in Samoa. ...

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 01:55 PM

www.msn.com

First death and now a second. RFK Jr. claims no big deal.
First measles deaths in 10 years.

#7 | Posted by mattm at 2025-02-26 04:12 PM

Stupid is as stupid does. Vaccines people. They are not hard to get. There's no call for this. Full stop

#8 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-26 04:16 PM

Maybe Governor Hot Wheels will get a dose and die.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-26 07:05 PM

"There are lots of people who lack education but who have great natural intelligence and a desire to learn, including most of the people I grew up with. Stupid is different. To win a degree in stupid, you have to willfully reject facts in favor of superstitions, myths, fears and conspiracy theories. And then get all your news from fake or biased news sites targeted at the stupid."

Alan Caron

#10 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-02-26 09:05 PM

www.msn.com

Turns out Kennedy lied and misspoke. Only one death, I'll let that be the misspoke as this is a rapidly moving story.
The lie FTA: "Incidentally," Kennedy said, "there have been four measles outbreaks this year. In this country last year there were 16. So, it's not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year."

It was considered irradicated with very cases each year for several years in the early 2000's.
www.statista.com

#11 | Posted by mattm at 2025-02-26 09:21 PM

Well at least the kid didn't get autism, so WIN!

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-02-26 10:15 PM

From the article from msn.com cited in @11

@#11

... "Incidentally," Kennedy said, "there have been four measles outbreaks this year. In this country last year there were 16. So, it's not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year." ...

Yeah, but the questions that lingers in the air, like an unclaimed air-biscuit, is ...

Why are we experiencing these measles outbreaks, and why are they spreading?

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 10:40 PM

Maybe RFK Jr can take a walk in a restaurant's kitchen.

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-26 11:17 PM

Ah, the choices, the choices. Do we call the loathsome, misogynist racist Dotard Trumpf "President Plane-crash," "President Plague-spot," or "President Pennywise?"

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-27 02:10 AM

Hey, freedom isn't free.

#16 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-02-27 07:38 AM

Another thread that did not age well. The first measles death was a child not vetted, not vaccinated and not here legally under Biden's watch.

#17 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-02-27 11:40 AM

partisan political ghoul.

#18 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-02-27 11:41 AM

The first measles death was a child not vetted, not vaccinated and not here legally under Biden's watch.

#17 | POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

Who got the measles from that non-vaxxed white boy.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-27 11:48 AM

The first measles death was a child not vetted, not vaccinated and not here legally under Biden's watch.

#17 | POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

I wonder who the second measles death will be?

Give a ----?

#20 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-27 11:49 AM

Another thread that did not age well.

#17 | POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

It's an ongoing epidemic, idiot.

Why don't you call up DJT and RFK to see what they are going to do about rather than find some reason to wash your hands of it and ease your sorry conscience?

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-27 11:51 AM

The first measles death was a child not vetted, not vaccinated and not here legally under Biden's watch.

Link? The reports I have seen do not identify the child except as school age. Also reference a Mennonite community.
All the more reason to be vaccinated if you are afraid of immigrants.

#22 | Posted by mattm at 2025-02-27 12:02 PM

I know where they are stating, at the ROOT CAUSE of the outbreaks. You just don't like where they are starting.

#23 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-02-27 12:03 PM

Unless you're the second coming of Christ you're not going to convince the Mennonites to get vaccinated. Jesus would probably even struggle with that one.

#24 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-27 12:04 PM

"The first measles death was a child not vetted, not vaccinated and not here legally under Biden's watch."

So that's good news for us White Americans, right?

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-27 12:05 PM

Are the Mennonites praying the outbreak be limited to Mennonites?
Or are they okay with spreading disease to their neighbors?

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-27 12:06 PM

Making American Great Again! Who needs those stupid vaccines anyways? Texass!

#27 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-02-27 12:07 PM

ROOT CAUSE of the outbreaks.

#23 | POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

Let's talk about the ROOT CAUSE of an uncontrolled epidemic.

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-27 12:08 PM

| POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

How many white kids need to die before you people get serious about vaccination?

#29 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-27 12:09 PM

They'll never get serious about vaccination, lol dude.

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-27 12:15 PM

They'll never get serious about vaccination, lol dude.

#30 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

I know.

More fool I.

#31 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-27 12:33 PM

So, no link, just conjecture that they are to blame. If from Mexico, they very well may have been vaccinated.

immunizationdata.who.int

Page 3, MMR at age 13 months.

Even if undocumented are the original vector, the only way it spreads is through the local population letting their overall rates lapse.
There are periodic polio outbreaks around the world, but it is quickly arrested due to universal vaccination efforts. Which will soon die without USA leadership and support at the WHO.

#32 | Posted by mattm at 2025-02-27 01:27 PM

Mennonites send out missionaries. They go to a country with a low vaccination rate. They go to a rural area in that country with a non-existent vaccination rate. Finally, they fly home with the measles.

#33 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-27 03:50 PM

RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won't Be Upsetting Anymore

theonion.com

#34 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-27 03:50 PM

If you see somebody cosplaying like they're from Little House on the Prairie in 2025, don't go over there.

#35 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-27 03:50 PM

Abbott and Trump: YOU BUILT THIS

#36 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-02-28 10:36 AM

www.msn.com

#37 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-02-28 12:24 PM

Save some of that acrimony for the unvaxxed migratory population, after all they are the ones who brought the gift to the party. Without them we wouldn't have it at all.

#38 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-02-28 12:56 PM

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