Texas Measles Cases Hit Double Digits as Outbreak Continues to Raise Alarm

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Feb 08, 2025 at 6:14 PM EST


An outbreak of measles cases in Texas has hit double digits prompting the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to issue an alert on Friday. Newsweek has contacted the Texas Department of State Health Services via email for comment on Saturday afternoon.

Why It Matters

Measles, an airborne disease, is an extremely infectious illness that can be especially dangerous for infants, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems, with the potential to cause serious and even deathly complications. It can spread rapidly in communities with low vaccination rates, and initially results in symptoms including a high fever, a cough, a runny nose, and red or watery eyes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Initial signs of the illness include flu-like traits, but can escalate into a distinctive red, blotchy rash that is highly infectious to those that haven't been vaccinated. According to the CDC, nearly 1 to 3 of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurologic complications.

According to The Texas Tribute, for some communities in Texas, these are the first cases of measles in more than 20 years.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/texas-measles-cases-hit-double-digits-outbreak-raises-alarm-2028348

[Hugin]

1. Measles and mumps... Oh, my.

Unvaccinated adult males (“pitchers” for any lurking MAGAts) should be very very worried about catching the mumps. You’ll go through some things and it doesn’t check your party affiliation.

But, you will no longer be able to look it up at the CDC or NIH.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. "should be very very worried about catching the mumps"

...because that would mean no more reproducing any more baby MAGats!

[Hugin]

6. I'm old enough to have witnessed it myself.

Excruciating doesn’t begin to describe it. It’s more like the Goddess Herself is kicking you in the gonads (that’s “nuts” for the lurking MAGAts)… For days. What’s more, the more manly man someone is, the worse it gets.

I can imagine how they might be begging for some “toxic femininity” if they think it might help.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. They would blame it on a "liberal conspiracy"

[tanyev]

14. "As soon I can stand without screaming in pain, I'm gonna go beat up the lib'ruls who gave me this!"

[BumRushDaShow]

17. That's basically what some of them did with COVID

as they lay in hospital beds yelling and about to be intubated, in order to attempt to save their lives (and there were videos).

[Bengus81]

30. Yeah...watched them and yelling FUCK YOU at the TV.

I didn't give a shit if they died,still don't. The mass shit those MAGOTS put out 24/7 online and elsewhere about Covid itself that mirrored their Fuhrer and then the same BS when the vaccine came out.

[B.See]

37. Exactly. It'd go something like,

"The Liberals goaded/tricked/conned us into being willful and ignorant DUPES of MAGA lies and assholery.

[BumRushDaShow]

40. Or better

The ANTIFA Liberals goaded/tricked/conned us into being willful and ignorant DUPES of MAGA lies and assholery.

[nwduke]

21. Trump will direct Abbot

To abolish the Texas Department of State Health Services, there ya go, problem solved!🤪

[Hugin]

28. "Y'all just rub some roadkill or horse dewormer on and walk it off." - Official guidance

[Ms. Toad]

44. The only mention of mumps in the article is because the vaccine for mumps and measles is combined. n/t

[Cattledog]

2. Cases showing up here in Atlanta.

[Bread and Circuses]

4. Time to build a really big wall around Texas

[mucifer]

5. I'm 59 yo and checked my titers a year ago. It was low and I got 2 more measle shots. Consider

getting titers and vaccines now that we can get them.

I was vaccinated as a kid.

[johnnyfins]

7. Too soon for a picture of Ted Cruz

With red dots on his face?

[LisaL]

8. You stop vaccinating, you get measles.

MAGA paradise.

[surfered]

10. Hmmm.....maybe vaccines are a good thing. Just saying.

[Old Crank]

11. No need to worry!

RFK will be on it right away.......

[lark]

12. Gee, guess science isn't one of those alternative facts after all!

Decrease vaccinations and bear the cost -stupid asses!

[Vinca]

13. Well, the vaccines should contain it. Oh . . . wait . . .

[twodogsbarking]

15. Should you tell people they are dumbfucks? They may not know and you might be doing them a favor.

[Lonestarblue]

16. Gee, if only we had a measles vaccine! Ignorance leads to illness, and Republican states are filled with ignorance.

[Raftergirl]

18. I volunteered to be a cuddler in NICU a few years ago and had to have my titers checked to see if I was

fully vaccinated. I wasn’t, due to mumps vaccine not available when I was a child (I was born in 1956) so I was revaccinated with the MMR. Never had mumps or measles.

Glad I am revaxxed.

[BoRaGard]

19. G.O.P. is making everyone sick

and meanwhile trashing the health care system

[ananda]

20. I had mumps and measles when I was young.

Last edited Sun Feb 9, 2025, 03:10 PM - Edit history (1)

I don't remember mumps, but my case of measles
was very mild.

However, my little sister got sleeping sickness after
she had the measles. She did finally get over it,
though.

I can definitely see the need for vaccines.

[leftyladyfrommo]

41. I had mumps, measles, chickenpox.

I vaguely remember getting some kind of tb test. And a smallpox vaccination that never "took."

We were on vacation when I had mumps. Measles were awful. I got really sick. I don't remember chickenpox much. I was pretty little and got it from our nextdoor neighbor.

The girls behind us had whooping cough.

[JohnSJ]

22. now if only Abbott and Paxton .................. measles is actually very serious in adults.

[B.See]

38. You can bet your last DOLLAR these two MAGAt have THEIR shots.

ALL of 'em.

I GARONTEE (as Justin Wilson used to say)

[Aristus]

23. Yawn.

Wake me up when the ‘alarm’ reaches the “I Guess We’d Better Vaccinate After All” stage.

[cstanleytech]

24. Fucking assholes playing roulette with their kids lives.

[cloudbase]

25. Gaines County voted 91% for Trump in 2024.

I'll leave others to draw their own conclusions.

[Rebl2]

26. Wonder

How many children, teens and adults will die from this outbreak.

[SunSeeker]

43. It won't be 0. Ask Samoa. nt

[NickB79]

27. The Trump administration is looking for excuses to close the border

I wouldn't be surprised if they use this measles outbreak to do so, claiming it was brought in by illegal immigrants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/politics/trump-title-42-migrants.html

Inside Trump’s Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.

[sakabatou]

32. That argument has been used for hundreds of years

"This disaster was brought about by [insert minority of any kind]!"

[flashman13]

29. Serious question - Do we still have a CDC? I thought Trump destroyed the CDC his first week.

Then again, it's hard to keep up in the chaos.

[sakabatou]

31. I think he tried to get rid of NIH, not the CDC

[flashman13]

36. OK, I was worried for a moment. I feel better now.

[ificandream]

33. I'm sure Abbott will do what he has to to safeguard the health of his stage /sarcasm

[mercuryblues]

34. I'm sure RFKJR will get right on that.

Luckily (?) as part of my post recovery, I needed to be revacc'ed for all childhood diseases. It took 2 years, but I am up to date on everything, with the latest vaccines available.

[Bengus81]

35. Yet another reason to avoid Texas like the em....plague

[mahina]

39. Here is a hope sent out to all that people in Texas and everywhere have access to the vaccines they need & will be safe.

People I love live in Texas but even if they didn't, I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
What a nightmare.

[Marcuse]

42. Base camp.

[4catsmom]

45. My nephew and his wife have a newborn in Houston

Effing anti-vaxxers in red states will put them at risk