Saturday, April 05, 2025

Texas Measles Outbreak Nears 500, Spreads to Day Cares

Six young children at a Lubbock, Texas, day care center have tested positive for measles -- a dreaded scenario with the potential to accelerate an already out-of-control outbreak that has spread to at least two other states. On Friday, the Texas Department of State Health Services said the toll rose to 481 confirmed cases, a 14% jump over last week.

Posted by LampLighter at 10:33 PM | 27 COMMENTS | permalink

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... Six young children at a Lubbock, Texas, day care center have tested positive for measles -- a dreaded scenario with the potential to accelerate an already out-of-control outbreak that has spread to at least two other states.

More than a dozen other states and Washington, D.C. are dealing with cases of measles unrelated to Texas.

On Friday, the Texas Department of State Health Services said the toll rose to 481 confirmed cases, a 14% jump over last week. Fifty-six people have been hospitalized in the area since the disease started spreading in late January.

At the Tiny Tots U Learning Academy, a center with approximately 230 infants, toddlers and preschool-age children, the outbreak began on March 24, when a little girl who had been sick with fever and vomiting tested positive. She later needed to be hospitalized for pneumonia and trouble breathing.

Kids who have tested positive at the day care so far are between the ages of 5 months and 3 years old, said Maegan Messick, a co-owner of the center. None was fully vaccinated against measles. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-05 07:31 PM

What is the Trump administration saying about these outbreaks?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-05 07:32 PM

The orange pedo doesn't care what if kids are killed by measles or gunfire.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-05 09:04 PM

@#3 ... The orange pedo doesn't care what if kids are killed by measles or gunfire. ...

Yeah.

That may be why he put RFK, Jr into power.


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-05 09:09 PM

@#2 ... What is the Trump administration saying about these outbreaks? ...

Anyone?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 12:13 AM

"What is the Trump administration saying about these outbreaks?"

Take Vitamin A, according to the head of HHS.

So now...kids are being admitted with measles...AND a Vitamin A toxicity.

It's basically RFK Jr's ivermectin.

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 12:19 AM

www.texasstandard.org

#7 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 12:19 AM

@#6 ... So now...kids are being admitted with measles...AND a Vitamin A toxicity.

It's basically RFK Jr's ivermectin. ...

Yup. The person leading the health of the Country.


And mucho gratitude for the #7 link you provide ...

West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 12:32 AM

"Yup. The person leading the health of the Country."

My brother, a retired doctor and RINO, has gone surprisingly silent.

#9 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 12:35 AM

Going back to the topic of this thread...

The important, imo, issue of Due Process.

(and I do not capitalize those words lightly.)

... A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to return home Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father mistakenly deported by the Trump administration to a supermax prison in El Salvador. ...

Then, there's this ...

Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison (April 2, 2025)
www.cnn.com

... The administration argued that it cannot bring back Abrego Garcia because he's in Salvadoran custody and knocked down concerns that he's likely to be tortured or killed at CECOT. ...

OK, another view ...

Judge orders return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
www.cbsnews.com

... A federal judge ruled Friday that a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador must be returned to the U.S. by Monday, April 7.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to a supermax prison on March 15, despite a protection order granted in 2019 that should have kept him from being sent to El Salvador. He filed a lawsuit against several federal officials demanding to be returned to the U.S.

"Thank you to everyone that has helped us and supported us in fighting this," Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer, told a crowd outside of the courthouse following the ruling, a statement from the advocacy organization CASA said.

"We will continue fighting this. The first thing I am going to do when I see him is give him a big hug," she said.

ICE officials blamed an "administrative error" and an "oversight" for Abrego Garcia's deportation, but did not take action to rectify the mistake. ...



#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 12:48 AM

@#10 ... ICE officials blamed an "administrative error" and an "oversight" for Abrego Garcia's deportation, but did not take action to rectify the mistake. ...

Yeah,an oversight and/or an administrative error.

And, that is A Good Thing?

Why?

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 12:49 AM

@#9 ...My brother, a retired doctor and RINO, has gone surprisingly silent. ...

Hopefully, your family's next Thanksgiving gathering will be warm.

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 12:52 AM

"ICE officials blamed an "administrative error" and an "oversight""

As if those were the only two employees not fired by DOGE.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 01:02 AM

@#13 ... As if those were the only two employees not fired by DOGE. ...

Yeah, as your comment seems to note...

If you are not on board with the unfettered adulation of Der Leader, your career is toast.



(and, fwiw, I do note the unsurprising lack of comments from the MAGA troll farm here on this thread ...)

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 01:21 AM

"Hopefully, your family's next Thanksgiving gathering will be warm."

Luckily, (VERY luckily), I grew up in a household where we all teased each other. Never mean, never personal...just trying to make the other laugh.

When he gave me a T-Shirt with a US map showing red counties and blue counties, I grabbed the tag. "Oh look...it says blue areas represent 70% of GDP".

#15 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 01:30 AM

"If you are not on board with the unfettered adulation of Der Leader, your career is toast."

Turns out they wrote code so if at least 4 out of 5 "Things you did last week" wasn't sukkkking-off Trump...you got fired.

#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 01:33 AM

16 | Posted by Danforth

My cousin is a pretty high level manager with the Bureau of Land Management. When we were talking a couple weeks ago about this very subject, he told me he's probably in trouble because he just just required the power company to spend millions of dollars in fire abatement measures.

I told him if he was asked to say that after it cost Pacific Gas and Power billions in fines following California fires, he didn't want that power company he was mandating to lose billions of dollars in the case of a fire (instead of his watching out for the environment). You know, looking out for the corporation. I hope that explanation would help him keep his job.

Scary times

#17 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-06 01:44 AM

16 | Posted by Danforth

My cousin is a pretty high level manager with the Bureau of Land Management. When we were talking a couple weeks ago about this very subject, he told me he's probably in trouble because he just just required the power company to spend millions of dollars in fire abatement measures.

I told him if he was asked to say that after it cost Pacific Gas and Power billions in fines following California fires, he didn't want that power company he was mandating to lose billions of dollars in the case of a fire (instead of his watching out for the environment). You know, looking out for the corporation. I hope that explanation would help him keep his job.

Scary times

#18 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-06 01:44 AM

"I told him, if he was asked, to say that after it cost Pacific Gas and Power billions in fines following California fires, he didn't want that power company he was mandating to lose billions"

GREAT advice.

I hope he put "Saved BILLIONS" first on his list of five things!

#19 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 01:49 AM

"Saved billions" turns into "saved job," hopefully

#20 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-06 02:00 AM

@#15 ... Luckily, (VERY luckily), I grew up in a household where we all teased each other. Never mean, never personal...just trying to make the other laugh. ...

Yeah, same for my family.

#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 02:19 AM

DOGE people make a lot of mistakes. Why aren't they fired to improve efficiency?

#22 | Posted by TenMile at 2025-04-06 09:24 AM

the inevitable pendulum swing/over reaction from the right to the over reaction of the left with covid... stupid.

#23 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-04-07 09:46 AM

The------------- kills with measles and Covid.

#24 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-07 09:48 AM

over reaction of the left with covid

#23 | POSTED BY KWRX25

1,200,000 Americans died.

At what point does KWRX25 get concerned?

#25 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-07 10:09 AM

over reaction

#23 | POSTED BY KWRX25

MAGA wants NO reaction to epidemics.

It exposes them for what they are.

Ignorant, lazy, and cruel.

#26 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-07 10:11 AM

POSTED BY KWRX25

This measles epidemic is in my backyard. My MAGA Congressman has said nothing aboout, just like he said nothing about COVID. My MAGA Congressman says nothing about measles immunizations, just like he said nothing about COVID immunizations.

The man postures himself CONSTANTLY as this great advocate for rural health but when it comes to his constituents dying from plague does nothing.

That pretty much sums up MAGA. With the chance to do something positive you sit on your ass. You refuse to stray beyond the confines of your cult beliefs.

#27 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-07 10:19 AM

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