Posted on 02/17/2025 9:56:31 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
When Aganetha Unger pulled up her large, white van to the emergency measles testing site, several of her eight children were coughing.
“We had some sickness in the house, not very bad, but some fever, some cough,” said Unger, who is Mennonite. One child, she said, had a fever of 103 degrees.
Her youngest getting tested was a 2-month-old, wrapped tightly in a pink blanket on her mom’s lap. When the EMS team swabbed her nose, she didn’t cry.
It was Thursday, eight days after the Texas Department of State Health Services first reported a measles outbreak on the rural, western edge of the state.
On Friday, the number of confirmed cases rose to 49, up from 24 earlier in the week, the state health department said. The majority of those cases are in Gaines County, which borders New Mexico.
Most cases are in school-age kids, and 13 have been hospitalized. All are unvaccinated against measles, which is one of the most contagious viruses in the world.
The latest measles case count likely represents a fraction of the true number of infections. Health officials — who are scrambling to get a handle on the vaccine-preventable outbreak — suspect 200 to 300 people in West Texas are infected but untested, and therefore not part of the state’s official tally so far.
The fast-moving outbreak comes as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, has long sown distrust about childhood vaccines, and in particular, the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, falsely linking it to autism.
During his confirmation hearings, Kennedy said he was not anti-vaccine. “I am pro-safety,” he said. “All of my kids are vaccinated, and I believe vaccines have a critical role in health care.”...
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Where did these stats come from?
Certainly not healthy middle class kids.
Overseas research?
Measles is a nationally reportable disease. The treating doctors file reports. The media is getting the information from the Texas Dept of Health not from Mennonites.
I think it’s US data from before 1963. MMR wasn’t released until then. Boomers like me got to experience the joys of measles and mumps and rubella.
Figured it was a liberal fake news organization.
Ditto.
Washington state had a whooping cough outbreak a few years ago. But the lamestream local media wouldn’t identify that it came from all the illegals.
Unfortunately no one knew back then that chicken pox stays dormant until it re-emerges as shingles later in life. I guarantee you that’s one party no one wants to attend.
The most painful and miserable experience of my life was shingles.
71 days of hell.
But that’s from measles right?
Well that wasn’t just healthy kids but included the polio kids the downs kids (remember no one operated on their hearts back then. They died by age 7)
And the other disabled and sick kids.
I remember in 5th Grade when We were marched into the School Library and there was a Nurse with a large black squared off “pistol” with a chrome tip and they “shot” Us in the left upper arm, no alcohol swab involved. Just “click, wooosh” and next. HURT LIKE }{€££ !!!
I have no idea what it was for, but they did All of Us.
TB test?
“Nobody died.”
This is flat out wrong. The US had ~6,000 measles deaths a year at the beginning of the 20th century. After the vaccine in 1963, it dropped to 500 a year, and as the disease was eradicated, we had 0 in most years, though there have been periodic outbreaks, like in 2000, where 87 died.
It is flat out stupid to lump long proven vaccines like Measles and Polio with newer vaccines that may not have had the same level of rigor applied.
We see recent outbreaks with fatalities.
https://www.cdc.gov/Mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00038792.htm
No, it was some vaccine thing. There was no follow up for any type of reaction. This was in 1973 or so.
When I was little, we had one year where all four of us CONSEQUETIVELY came down with, measles, mumps, chicken pox, four day measles, and impetigo.
My mom said they didn’t (because they couldn’t) go anywhere for 9 months.
And we all recovered just fine.
And I have never heard of a child with serious consequences and never heard that pneumonia was one.
If shingles is caught early, within the first 48 IIRC, there are anti-virals to help lessen the severity of it.
But prompt diagnosis and treatment is essential for it to work.
Right. It is much more deadly disease.
I think that in 1963 when apparently the data was compiled, if you were a child with hemophilia, or had a bad heart, or had cystic fibrosis; or were severely physically compromised pneumonia could have been a measles complication. And I am sure occasionally a child without physical compromises had pneumonia. Which 60 years ago was less treatable than today.
Medical care has increased dramatically these days over then.
I’m sure if these diseases went around today, we wouldn’t see nearly the number of complications that existed in the past.
But that would be contingent on the parents to watch their kids and take action early.
What is concerning is if there’s an outbreak, there are a lot of adults with no natural immunity, and IIRC, there are questions about how long the measles vaccines, etc, are effective.
If adults get these childhood diseases, it’s VERY serious.
Agree.
People Ave been deprived of herd immunity.
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