{"id":8777,"date":"2025-02-19T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8777"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:15:53","slug":"measles-outbreak-grows-bigger-in-rural-texas-and-officials-expect-more-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/19\/measles-outbreak-grows-bigger-in-rural-texas-and-officials-expect-more-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles outbreak grows bigger in rural Texas, and officials expect more cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/measles-outbreak-texas-rcna192679\">NBC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of the 58 new cases over the past three weeks, 13 people have been hospitalized. At least<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/02\/18\/new-data-shows-measles-cases-have-spread-terry-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;58 new cases of measles<\/a>&nbsp;have been reported across northwest Texas in recent weeks, state health officials said Tuesday, in a &#8220;highly contagious&#8221; outbreak that might be linked to lack of vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bulk of these new cases&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/measles-outbreak-west-texas-grows-unvaccinated-rcna192163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in rural northwest Texas<\/a>&nbsp;are in Gaines County with 45 documented incidents of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK564984\/#:~:text=Measles%20is%20caused%20by%20viruses,middle%20ear%20infection%20or%20pneumonia.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the disease<\/a>, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dshs.texas.gov\/news-alerts\/measles-outbreak-feb-18-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas Department of State Health Services<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/measles-outbreak-texas-rcna192679\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"uWBDgO cMtWGR nP\"><!-- uWBDgO cMtWGR nP --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC Out of the 58 new cases over the past three weeks, 13 people have been hospitalized. At least&nbsp;58 new cases of measles&nbsp;have been reported across northwest Texas in recent weeks, state health officials said Tuesday, in a &#8220;highly contagious&#8221; outbreak that might be linked to lack of vaccination. A bulk of these new cases&nbsp;in [&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-8777","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\/8777","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=8777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8778,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions\/8778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}