{"id":14559,"date":"2025-03-21T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/texas-measles-outbreak-may-continue-for-a-year-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T19:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:17:45","slug":"texas-measles-outbreak-may-continue-for-a-year-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/texas-measles-outbreak-may-continue-for-a-year-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Measles Outbreak May Continue for a Year, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m really thinking this is going to be a year long,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201c<\/strong>It\u2019s just going to have to burn through the community<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">,\u201d <\/em>Dr. Cook said. \u201cThat\u2019s where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In New Mexico, officials have reported 42 cases and one death. In Oklahoma, there have been four probable measles cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Public health officials are particularly concerned now that potentially infected children in West Texas will begin traveling for spring break, said Dr. Phil Huang, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Measles has been considered \u201celiminated\u201d in the United States since 2000: Cases generally have been tied to international travel, and when the virus does strike an unvaccinated community, the outbreaks don\u2019t continue for longer than a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States nearly lost its elimination status in 2019, when a large outbreak spread through parts of New York State for nearly 12 months. The outbreak was contained in large part because of aggressive vaccine mandates, which helped substantially <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1912514\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">increase childhood immunization rates<\/a> in the community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Texas, where mandates are deeply unpopular, the vaccination effort has \u201cbeen a struggle,\u201d Ms. Wells said. Local public health officials have set up vaccination clinics around the region and encouraged attendance with fliers and billboards. There has been little success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Seminole, Texas, a city of about 7,200 people and the epicenter of the outbreak, roughly 230 residents have received shots at vaccination clinics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201c<\/strong>They\u2019ve handed out a few vaccines in their community, but certainly not a lot,\u201d Dr. Cook said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201c<\/strong>It doesn\u2019t help that our H.H.S. secretary continues to not really reinforce vaccination,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Local efforts to encourage the shots have been hamstrung by a muddled message from the country\u2019s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his first public statements about the outbreak, Mr. Kennedy faced intense backlash for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/26\/us\/texas-measles-outbreak-death.html\" title=\"\">minimizing the <\/a>threat, saying outbreaks were \u201cnot unusual\u201d and falsely claiming that many people hospitalized were there \u201cmainly for quarantine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He later changed his approach, offering a muted recommendation of vaccines for people in West Texas while also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/health\/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html\" title=\"\">raising frightening concerns<\/a> about the safety of the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To the frustration of local doctors and health officials, he has also promoted unproven treatments like <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/04\/health\/texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy.html\" title=\"\">cod liver oil<\/a> and vitamins, and touted \u201calmost miraculous and instantaneous\u201d recoveries with steroids or antibiotics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There is no cure for measles, only medications to help manage the symptoms. Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent the infection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Local health officials have said they worry that measles patients were over-relying on these unproven treatments and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/15\/health\/measles-texas-kennedy.html\" title=\"\">delaying critical medical care<\/a> as a result.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     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