'I'm worried it's getting worse': Texas measles outbreak grows as families resist vaccination
Cases tied to the large outbreak have spread to at least three states.
The measles outbreak that began in Texas before spreading to at least two other states swelled to 355 confirmed cases on Friday — and officials say there is no sign it’s slowing.
“I’m worried it’s getting worse,” Katherine Wells, director of public health for Lubbock, told NBC News.
Many people aren’t getting tested for measles, and efforts to increase vaccination in the affected areas have gotten a lukewarm response, Wells said during a media briefing by the Big Cities Health Coalition on Tuesday.
Wells said she thought it could be a year until the outbreak is controlled.
Read more at: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/-worried-getting-worse-texas-measles-outbreak-grows-families-resist-va-rcna196873
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and I remember when it first got reported they said the family had traveled to one of the outbreak counties in West Texas—maybe even had ties to the Mennonite community there.
What they did not report, but I wondered, was whether they had traveled there deliberately, like a modern day measles party. Apparently that is happening in some circles in the outbreak counties.
