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Do I need a measles vaccine booster shot? What to know as new outbreak leads to first death

Upworthy Friday, 28 February 2025
Throughout February, a measles outbreak has been growing in West Texas. The potentially deadly disease, once eliminated from the United States in terms of its continuous transmission, has been making a comeback in recent years as vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine movements rise. Unfortunately,…
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News video: Texas Measles Outbreak Claims First Life in a Decade As Disease Continues to Spread to Multiple States

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In Texas, the swiftly spreading outbreak of measles has claimed its first life. Since the outbreak began last month, there have been 124 documented cases of measles in the state of texas with almost all patients being 17 years old or younger. The tragic death is of an unvaccinated child who died at a...

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