{"id":9144,"date":"2025-04-08T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:32:26","slug":"texas-measles-outbreak-tops-500-cases-including-multiple-at-a-day-care-in-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/08\/texas-measles-outbreak-tops-500-cases-including-multiple-at-a-day-care-in-lubbock\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas measles outbreak tops 500 cases, including multiple at a day care in Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-outbreak-texas-day-care-lubbock-3d90c3ea9050c12dbc74a8f8142a6355\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day care facility in a Texas county that\u2019s part of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-outbreak-texas-new-mexico-vaccine-rfk-d5444b3397ac7c4034e63becc219aa33\">measles outbreak<\/a>&nbsp;has multiple cases, including children too young to be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-mmr-vaccine-texas-rfk-ff8e744b19ead87698d7217de02814ee\">fully vaccinated<\/a>, public health officials say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West Texas is in the middle of a still-growing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.datawrapper.de\/_\/sxSwi\/?v=7\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"measles outbreak, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">measles outbreak<\/a>&nbsp;with 505 cases reported on Tuesday. The state expanded the number of counties in the outbreak area this week to 10. The highly contagious virus began to spread in late January and health officials say it has spread to New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-outbreak-texas-day-care-lubbock-3d90c3ea9050c12dbc74a8f8142a6355\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP A day care facility in a Texas county that\u2019s part of the&nbsp;measles outbreak&nbsp;has multiple cases, including children too young to be&nbsp;fully vaccinated, public health officials say. West Texas is in the middle of a still-growing&nbsp;measles outbreak&nbsp;with 505 cases reported on Tuesday. The state expanded the number of counties in the outbreak area this week [&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-9144","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\/9144","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=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9145,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions\/9145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}