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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun redeploying staff to respond to the deadly outbreak of measles in Texas, a spokesperson said Monday, a week after steep layoffs at the agency i...
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“The more children who get the disease means that there’s an increased chance that there will be more children getting sicker with complications from measles,” said Dr. Christina Johns, a pediatric e...
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The measles outbreak has already spread to three states and triggered more than 500 cases. But it could keep growing for months.
The West Texas measles outbreak has been labeled as the worst in more than 30 years. TPR looked into the way San Antonio confronted the crisis 36 years ago and what we can learn from it.
A second child in Texas has died of measles, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy told people gathered at a funeral for a second child in Texas who died from the disease that a vaccine is the "most effective" way to prevent it.
WASHINGTON: A second child with measles has died in Texas, state officials said on Sunday (Apr 6), in an outbreak of the childhood disease that has resulted in nearly 500 cases in Texas and has spread across 22 states.
Steep federal funding cuts have forced public health officials in one of Texas’ most populous counties — Dallas — to cancel dozens of vaccination clinics and lay off 21 workers on the front lines of combatting the state’s growing measles outbreak.
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As the United States faces one of its worst measles outbreaks in decades, a new analysis finds that nearly a third of young children who were eligible to be vaccinated against the disease did not get their first shot on schedule.
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