Texas measles outbreak update
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Anti-vaccine activists seized on a deadly outbreak in Seminole, setting off a battle between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.
There are 1,168 confirmed measles cases in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
Texas has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in decades. It has sickened more than 700 people in the state and killed two unvaccinated children.
For the first time since the West Texas measles outbreak began, the state health department had no new cases to report this week.
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Midland Reporter-Telegram on MSNSixth measles case confirmed in Midland County as outbreak continuesThe Midland Health Department has confirmed that a sixth case of measles has been found in Midland County amid an ongoing outbreak in West Texas.
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A measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, caused hundreds of children to be hospitalized and caused the death of two girls. The rural community has one of the lowest childhood vaccination rates in the country.
Dr. Jennifer Shuford, Texas Department of State Health Services commissioner, joins the Standard with an update on efforts to contain the disease. The 89th Legislature is over – and so are lawmakers’ hopes for these bills Lawmakers filed nearly 9,000 bills this session, but only about 1,200 made it to the governor’s desk.