Texas measles outbreak continuing to grow- 59 new cases confirmed in just 3 days

[rcjordan]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/5/texas-measles-outbreak-continuing-grow-59-new-cases-confirmed-three/

[Brad]

Roadkill Robert is on the job.  No worries.

[littleman]

Another otherwise healthy child just died.

The patient was an unvaccinated school-aged child who had been hospitalized in Lubbock. Health and Human Services (HHS) Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on X that the child is 8-year-old Daisy Hildebrand of Gaines County. She had no underlying health conditions and died April 3 from measles pulmonary failure, according to her physicians, Texas Health and Human Services said in its news release.

"The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine," Kennedy wrote on X—his most forceful message yet in support of vaccination. He then said he visited with doctors "who have treated and healed some 300 measles-stricken Mennonite children using aerosolized budesonide and clarithromycin," and posted pictures of himself with the two Mennonite families who have lost a child in this outbreak.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/texas-announces-second-measles-death-unvaccinated-child

I am relieved somewhat to see him do an about-face on vaccines now that kids are dying on his watch. 

[Brad]

>about face

But it was grudging and it was just that statement.  No barnstorming media tour banging the drum for people to get their measles vaccination now, especially their kids. No announcements that they were making sure enough vaccine was available in Texas.  I don't get Texas news so maybe it's better covered there. 

[grnidone]

Texas children poisoned after RFK Jr touts vitamin A as measles treatment

Vaccine-hesitant parents are taking treatment into their own hands after claims from the US Health Secretary, experts fear

Texas hospitals are treating children with vitamin A poisoning after Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, promoted the supplement as a treatment for measles.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/texas-children-poisoned-rfk-jr-vitamin-a-measles-treatment/

[Brad]

snake oil salesman + mass media + cult fringe conspiracy loopers = trouble

I feel sorry for the kids, they are innocents in all this.

[rcjordan]

3rd case of measles in Colorado raises community transmission concerns - 9News

Texas measles outbreak tops 500 cases, including multiple at a day care in Lubbock - AP News