{"id":24451,"date":"2025-03-21T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24451"},"modified":"2025-03-21T19:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:26:39","slug":"texas-measles-outbreak-may-continue-for-a-year-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24451","title":{"rendered":"Texas Measles Outbreak May Continue for a Year, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

Vaccination efforts have faltered, and many residents have turned to alternative treatments endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

As containment efforts falter, the measles outbreak in West Texas is likely to persist for a year, perhaps even setting back the country\u2019s hard-fought victory over the virus, according to Texas health officials. <\/p>\n

As of Friday, the outbreak had sickened more than 300 people in Texas since January; 40 have been hospitalized. One child has died from the disease, the first such death in a decade. Related cases have been reported in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Chihuahua, Mexico. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to be a large outbreak,\u201d Katherine Wells, director of public health in Lubbock, Texas, said at a recent news briefing. \u201cAnd we are still on the side where we are increasing the number of cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really thinking this is going to be a year long,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

Some doctors in West Texas said in interviews that they had given up hope that a vaccination campaign could end the outbreak. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
\n
\n

Dr. Ron Cook, also a state health official in Lubbock, said he had resigned himself to the fact that the outbreak will infect many more children, and may kill again. <\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>It\u2019s just going to have to burn through the community,\u201d <\/em>Dr. Cook said. \u201cThat\u2019s where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far, cases have been centered in a large Mennonite community in Gaines County, which has had historically low vaccination rates. But experts fear that the longer the outbreak lasts, the more likely it is to spread to other unvaccinated communities around the country. <\/p>\n

\n
\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n

We are having trouble retrieving the article content.<\/p>\n

Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into<\/a>\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0for all of The Times.<\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n

Thank you for your patience while we verify access.<\/p>\n

Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vaccination efforts have faltered, and many residents have turned to alternative treatments endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.As containment efforts falter, the measles outbreak in West Texas is likely to persist for a year, perhaps even setting back the country\u2019s hard-fought victory over the virus, according to Texas health officials. As of Friday, the outbreak had sickened more than 300 people in Texas since January; 40 have been hospitalized. One child has died from the disease, the first such death in a decade. Related cases have been reported in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Chihuahua, Mexico. \u201cThis is going to be a large outbreak,\u201d Katherine Wells, director of public health in Lubbock, Texas, said at a recent news briefing. \u201cAnd we are still on the side where we are increasing the number of cases.\u201d\u201cI\u2019m really thinking this is going to be a year long,\u201d she added. Some doctors in West Texas said in interviews that they had given up hope that a vaccination campaign could end the outbreak. Dr. Ron Cook, also a state health official in Lubbock, said he had resigned himself to the fact that the outbreak will infect many more children, and may kill again. \u201cIt\u2019s just going to have to burn through the community,\u201d Dr. Cook said. \u201cThat\u2019s where we are.\u201dSo far, cases have been centered in a large Mennonite community in Gaines County, which has had historically low vaccination rates. But experts fear that the longer the outbreak lasts, the more likely it is to spread to other unvaccinated communities around the country. We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24453,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24454,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451\/revisions\/24454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}