A Texas patient has died from measles, the AP reported, the first death in an outbreak of the highly contagious virus that started in West Texas and has grown to over 120 cases.
The person’s age and identity have not been released, but an AP report indicated the patient died at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock. A Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson confirmed the death, according to the news agency.
Five of those who contracted measles are vaccinated and the remaining 121 are either unvaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown. Eighteen of the patients were hospitalized due to the virus, according to the Tuesday update.
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My bold. That’s a big leap in what is a low-population area in West Texas. In a densely populated area, I’m guessing the number of cases would increase a lot faster.
Anti-vaxxers: happy now? Stupid much?
The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.
What’s next? Bring back smallpox?
San Antonio has set up vaccination locations around the city. For those who are now believers.
Don’t give them ideas. The worm in RFKJr’s brain is already screaming at him to kill the Epidemic Intelligence Service and replace it with crowdsourced opinions of Twitter ‘experts’.
I like the way you put this in as poetry. To me, it’s more powerful than just a narrative. I do, however, disagree with your last line. Personally, I hope they cannot sleep at night with their incredibly stupid bad decisions.
Darwinism at work here. Unfortunately, their self-immolation can be passed to others nearby. All that is needed now is some higher profile idjit to kick the bucket from measles to become forever honored like in the HermanCainAward over on reddit.
I had measles and mumps when I was young. Yes, I’m an old guy. Parents would take children to visit an infected friend so their kid would catch the disease and develop immunity. What changed? I was given to understand those diseases may be fatal to adults, but not to children. Of course it is stupid not to vaccinate children, but what changed? I don’t recall any of my childhood friends dying of measles.
Its like any outbreak. You gotta stop the source.
Just because only kids had it, that you know of. Lots of other folks were getting it. Some were having bad outcomes.
Vulnerable people with preexisting conditions or very young babies.
Enough people sickened or succumbed to it that it was deemed necessary to devolope a vaccine.
Mumps is very dangerous for adult men.
Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 and widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year.
An estimated 107 500 people died from measles in 2023 – mostly children under the age of five years, despite the availability of a safe and cost-effective vaccine.
Even when it doesn’t kill it can cause serious complications such as ear infections that can damage hearing, pneumonia (extremely serious for infants and toddlers), and encephalitis (acute inflammation and swelling of the brain). I knew someone with hearing loss on one ear attributed to childhood measles.
Children cannot receive the first dose of the Measles/Mumps/Rubella (MMR) vaccine until they are 12 months old, and are generally scheduled for the second dose at 4-6 years (generally before entering the public school system). So, these very vulnerable members of the population, as well as those with compromised immune systems, require the protection that comes through comprehensive vaccination of everyone else.
My aunt contracted measles in the early 1960s before the vaccine and her child (my cousin) was born deaf. I did not know anyone that died.
I had the trifecta of illnesses myself - measles, mumps and rubella. Then in the early 1980s I received all the vaccines known to man in US Navy boot camp.
If I’ve done my math correctly, that means that, worldwide, a child died of measles every 5 minutes (on average) in 2023.
I remember that in the 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa, New Zealand had to send them a shipment of child-sized coffins because they had run out. Repeating: the country had run out of children’s coffins !
I’ve always wondered - why don’t these parents feel the same grief/loss/pain about their kids’ death as a pro-vaxx parent would?
I’m not a father myself, but I’d always assumed the death of one’s child was - in theory - one of the worst emotional blows a parent could ever experience, regardless of politics, religion or viewpoints.
They don’t believe it will happen to their child. And if their child gets M, M or R or any of the diseases there are vaccines for the kid is building herd immunity.
They believe.
Wait til small pox or polio comes back.
It will.
They will kill for vaccines then.
These same children who are not getting MMR are not getting DPT either.
