{"id":8803,"date":"2025-02-26T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8803"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:44:17","slug":"an-unvaccinated-child-has-died-in-the-texas-measles-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/26\/an-unvaccinated-child-has-died-in-the-texas-measles-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-outbreak-west-texas-death-rfk-41adc66641e4a56ce2b2677480031ab9\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A child who was not vaccinated has died from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-texas-new-mexico-mmr-outbreak-vaccines-408371700e3ab548777bf0354e586549\">measles in West Texas<\/a>, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death was a \u201cschool-aged child who was not vaccinated\u201d and had been hospitalized last week, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Wednesday in a statement. Lubbock health officials also confirmed the death, but neither agency provided more details. A news conference is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covenant Children\u2019s Hospital in Lubbock didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP A child who was not vaccinated has died from&nbsp;measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015. The death was a \u201cschool-aged child who was not vaccinated\u201d and had been hospitalized last week, the Texas Department of State [&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":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","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\/8803","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=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8804,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions\/8804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}