More Than 400 Mumps Cases Confirmed In Texas Immigrant Facilities

[TexasTowelie]

More than 100 new mumps cases have been identified in Texas immigrant holding facilities in the last five weeks, according to data obtained by News 88.7.

The Texas Department of State Health Services has confirmed 436 total cases of mumps since the outbreak started in October 2018.

The count of mumps cases includes all federal facilities that hold immigrants, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and shelters that hold unaccompanied migrant children, according to state officials.

Immigration lawyer Jodi Goodwin said some of her clients detained in the Rio Grande Valley have been quarantined because of the outbreak.

Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2019/07/29/340973/more-than-400-mumps-cases-confirmed-in-texas-immigrant-facilities/

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Good Grief! That's pretty serious when you get older!

I think I was 5 or 6 when I had them and I was pretty sick.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. It can lead to sterilization in men.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Another good reason for kids to be immunized

My friend returned to college a few years ago and she had to get the MMR vaccine before she could start classes - she may have gotten them as a kid, but didn't have the records. Any of those would be a nightmare if they spread on campus, let alone in those cells at the border.

[Javaman]

4. maybe some repuke congressmen need to go visit the camp.

just saying...