{"id":8697,"date":"2025-02-11T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:42:24","slug":"fifteen-cases-of-measles-reported-in-small-west-texas-county-with-high-rate-of-vaccine-exemptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/11\/fifteen-cases-of-measles-reported-in-small-west-texas-county-with-high-rate-of-vaccine-exemptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen cases of measles reported in small West Texas county with high rate of vaccine exemptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/fifteen-cases-measles-reported-small-west-texas-county-high-rate-vacci-rcna191580\">NBC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local health officials set up a drive-thru vaccination clinic last week and are offering screening services to residents. Fifteen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-cdc-outbreak-chicago-mmr-vaccine-7ecdfef41e6dbd659c7ac8b80d5de38f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">measles<\/a>&nbsp;cases \u2014 mostly in school-aged children \u2014 have been confirmed in a small county in West Texas with one of the highest rates of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/children-vaccinated-cdc-louisville-630b05bcd3b319a1d1028ca34e65b532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vaccine exemptions<\/a>&nbsp;in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Plains Public Health District Director Zach Holbrooks said Monday that his department was first notified in late January about the first two cases in Gaines County, which he said were \u201ctwo children who had seen a physician in Lubbock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the cases appear to be connected to private religious schools in the district, said Holbrooks, who cautioned that the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/fifteen-cases-measles-reported-small-west-texas-county-high-rate-vacci-rcna191580\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC Local health officials set up a drive-thru vaccination clinic last week and are offering screening services to residents. Fifteen&nbsp;measles&nbsp;cases \u2014 mostly in school-aged children \u2014 have been confirmed in a small county in West Texas with one of the highest rates of&nbsp;vaccine exemptions&nbsp;in the state. South Plains Public Health District Director Zach Holbrooks said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}