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.

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#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

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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 | Reply | Funny: 1

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 | Reply

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

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

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 | Reply

MAGA's Freedom Freckles are all the rage.

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

... 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 | Reply

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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 | Reply

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 | Reply

Maybe Governor Hot Wheels will get a dose and die.

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

"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 | Reply

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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 | Reply

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

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

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 | Reply

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

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