Posted on 08/19/2025 9:39:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Texas health officials on Monday declared the measles outbreak that began in West Texas earlier this year is now over after more than 700 cases were confirmed.
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) said that as of Aug. 18, 762 measles cases were confirmed since January, with the majority of infections occurring in children and most cases involving people who were unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination statuses.
Two deaths occurred in unvaccinated school-age children who lived in the outbreak area, marking the first U.S. measles death in more than a decade.
“The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting the end of this year’s measles outbreak centered in West Texas. It has been more than 42 days since a new case was reported in any of the counties that previously showed evidence of ongoing transmission,” DSHS said in a statement.
The start of the outbreak was linked to a Mennonite community of the South Plains region of Texas among whom vaccination rates are low. In Gaines County, where many of early cases were reported, almost half of all students had exemptions from vaccines.
The outbreak was seen as an early test for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long disparaged MMR vaccines. Despite his criticisms, Kennedy acknowledged the benefits of measles vaccines during the outbreak, writing in an op-ed that they “not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity.”
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So when I was a kid many years ago it seems like everybody got the measles. You were sick for awhile and then you went back to school and that was it. We never called it an epidemic.
Yea, it was usually a three-day ailment.
“We never called it an epidemic.”
Now we have a 24-hour news cycle, and they need to ‘sell’ everything.
I think you might be confusing chicken pox with measles
“”””Now we have a 24-hour news cycle, and they need to ‘sell’ everything.””””
I remember something Bill Clinton said many years ago that really made sense. He said now that we have 24 hour cable news they have to cram 20 minutes worth of news into 24 hours.
Brady Bunch measles: https://youtu.be/MNl1yNckUFQ?si=hUz8u_NP3zL-E83z
Nope. Measles. Everybody got it.
BFD! Every kid got measles when I was growing up, and it wasn’t a big deal (except that you got to miss school!). My school had more cases. God, what a bunch of p*ssies there are these days.
Your right.
Never had it. And never had chikenpox. Even after being around kids and people who had it.
Had whooping cough and mumps even though i was vaccinated.
I tell Doctors that and they scratch their heads.
People often confuse red measles (also known as Rubella) with German measles (also known as three day measles or Rubeola). Three day measles are relatively mild and not overly dangerous except to pregnant women. Red measles are more serious. Before the vaccines were instituted, hundreds of Americans died each year from the disease. More who didn’t die had severe cases of encephalitis. A significant percentage of those who survived were hospitalized. Personally, I missed four weeks of first grade because of it.
It was not an insignificant disease.
Yes. I remember getting red measles. One kid got it then all the rest go it.
This influx of disease is from the state of Illinois — those bastid Demos who ran away from their jobs.
Quarantine them. Chuck them into an open air cage farm somewhere in midTexas.
Yes, I “survived” the “epidemic” just fine.
Never had any problems.
I was actually questioning the need for the vaccine, when it was introduced, many years ago.
Still sort of do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
“Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not. This can lead to incorrect conclusions because of incomplete data.
Survivorship bias is a form of sampling bias that can lead to overly optimistic beliefs because multiple failures are overlooked, such as when companies that no longer exist are excluded from analyses of financial performance. It can also lead to the false belief that the successes in a group have some special property, rather than just coincidence as in correlation ‘proves’ causality.”
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