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2025-02-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

First fatality in years: Measles outbreak claims life of Texas child

[GEO.TV] An unvaccinated child in Texas has died from measles, health officials confirmed on Wednesday, marking the first measles-related fatality in the United States in nearly a decade, as the country grapples with a growing outbreak and declining immunisation rates.

The death comes amid declining immunisation rates nationwide, with the latest cases concentrated in a Mennonite religious community that historically has shown vaccine hesitancy.

It comes at a delicate moment for US public health as Kennedy, who has long spread falsehoods about the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, begins his tenure as health secretary.

"The school-aged child who was not vaccinated was hospitalised in Lubbock last week and tested positive for measles," the state health department said in a news release.

A statement from Lubbock city confirmed that the child passed away "within the last 24 hours."

Since the start of the year, more than 130 measles cases have been reported in west Texas and neighbouring New Mexico, the vast majority in unvaccinated children.

Posted by Fred 2025-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Not vaccinated. Was the child offered the vax when they were apprehended crossing the border?

I suppose we'll never know. But it does matter.

Posted by Bobby 2025-02-28 11:35|| 2025-02-28 11:35|| Front Page Top

#2 As a kid I had no worries about measles. The only 'childhood' disease left was chicken pox and it isn't nearly so lethal. I had no reason NOT to vaccinate my kids against that like I did with that F*ing COVID shot. I had to get it for work and I'm glad that I kept telling my wife no for the kids. She's happy now about that as well.

Posted by Silentbrick 2025-02-28 12:58|| 2025-02-28 12:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Nutballs are already blaming RFK Jr.

Posted by Deacon+Blues+ 2025-02-28 15:31|| 2025-02-28 15:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Measles outbreak in Ontario grows to more than 140 cases

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-28 15:37|| 2025-02-28 15:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Once again, this is what Ellis Island was for, screen for diseases.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-28 15:41|| 2025-02-28 15:41|| Front Page Top

#6 I would definitely have my kids vaccinated for the usual childhood illnesses, just consider waiting until they were a year old rather than starting at three months. I’d rather not have to pray they don’t end up blind, deaf, retarded, sterile, or dead. Or, like Senator Mitch McConnell, partially paralyzed down one side and with brain glitching in their old age from polio. Just because the recent vaccines are crap doesn’t mean they all are.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-28 16:15|| 2025-02-28 16:15|| Front Page Top

#7 My understanding is that the docs are doing batch shots all at once. IIRC my childhood experience, it was one shot over months and even years. At least with the old drugs and routines, it had a good amount of time for the body to adjust. While the drug companies back then had filed the appropriate studies and paperwork for approval of the individual shots, nothing has been done with the batch delivery approach.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-28 16:58|| 2025-02-28 16:58|| Front Page Top

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