Child Dies from Measles in Texas as Disease "Comes Roaring Back" Amid Anti-Vaccine Disinformation

[Uncle Joe]

An unvaccinated child has died of measles, Texas officials announced Wednesday, the first death from measles in the United States in a decade. The child’s death in a hospital in Lubbock, in West Texas, comes as the largest measles outbreak in the state in over 30 years is now spreading to New Mexico. Since last month, 124 people have contracted the disease, most of them unvaccinated children. “The minute you stop vaccinating and maintaining that vigilance of 90-95% vaccine coverage, measles comes roaring back, and that’s what’s happened here in West Texas,” world-renowned pediatrician, virologist and vaccine expert, Dr. Peter Hotez, tells Democracy Now!

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[DBoon]

1. so where is the Texas governor on this?

[WhiteTara]

2. It's only one plane ride from spreading to

all states.

[Walleye]

3. It's starting to look like 2000 was the pinnacle year for the United States.Measles was wiped out, we had a surplus

Then the Supreme Court put George W in charge and everything went to shit after that and never came back. Lying became the normal thing to do for a republican president.

[magicarpet]

4. Abbott could give a shit less.

Medicine is not something they want to be a hot button social issue. Medicine is not so easy to exploit because it is based upon science and facts. Science and facts are not something ReThugs want to tangle with or consider their cup of tea because it often explodes in their faces.