Second Measles Death Reported in American Southwest Measles Outbreak
This time, the patient was an adult who did not seek medical care before death.
In late February, I reported that a child had died of measles in an outbreak reported in West Texas.
Now, there is a second measles death being reported. The second death in the ongoing measles outbreak, this time in New Mexico, involved an unvaccinated adult from Lea County.
The individual did not seek medical care before death, New Mexico health department officials said. The official cause of death is under investigation by New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator. However, the state health department scientific laboratory has confirmed the presence of the measles virus in the person, the state health department said.
The person was a resident of Lea County, where at least 30 cases of measles have been reported. Lea County is just over the border from Gaines County, Texas, where the outbreak is centered. At least seven of the individuals were unvaccinated.
…State officials declined to release the person’s age, sex and underlying medical conditions or disclose whether contact tracing is underway to identify others who may have been exposed to one of the world’s most contagious viruses. The virus is airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs.
As I noted before, pre-existing conditions can worsen the severity of any disease, including measles. Furthermore, death from measles is usually the result of pneumonia, pre-existing health issues that affect the respiratory system can exacerbate the severity of measles symptoms and complications.
Therefore, without the complete set of facts, it is hard to form a complete picture as to why these infections resulted in fatality.
Meanwhile, there has been an uptick in the number of cases in New Mexico.
Also Friday, the New Mexico Department of Health reported 30 measles cases in Lea County, 20 more than had previously been identified in the state.
Health officials in both states said cases are expected to increase due to the highly contagious nature of measles.
In Texas, 23 patients have been hospitalized, one more than previously reported. Sixty-four cases are among people younger than 4, and 89 are among people 5 to 17. Cases have been identified in nine counties, but the majority, 137, are in Gaines County, where the outbreak was first identified.
Free vaccination clinics are opening up in Texas and New Mexico to prevent the outbreak from expanding.
Health workers are hosting regular vaccination clinics and screening efforts in Texas. They are also working with schools to educate people about the importance of vaccination and offering shots.
New Mexico medical providers are being urged to watch for and report measles infections, while state health authorities are attempting to trace and notify people who may have been exposed. The state health department is also doing free vaccination clinics in Hobbs and Lovington this week.
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What is going on?
I am 81. I had measles sometime in the ’50’s. I only vaguely recall it–stayed home from school a few days.
We all had it. I never heard of anyone being hospitalized, much less dying. I vaguely recall it being something that was more serious in adults, but never knew an adult getting it. It is extremely contagious–when it showed up and you hadn’t had it, you got it. Few made it to adulthood without having it.
My mother took all illnesses seriously, but measles wasn’t anything special.
“The person was a resident of Lea County, where at least 30 cases of measles have been reported. Lea County is just over the border from Gaines County, Texas, where the outbreak is centered. At least seven of the individuals were unvaccinated.”
So, as many as 23 were vaccinated and got in anyway?
“In Texas, 23 patients have been hospitalized…”
That is 23 more than I have ever heard of.
Something has changed.
I agree; All us kids born in the 40s and 50s got measles at some point (and chicken pox, and probably mumps) but we were healthy and well-fed and never caught it again.
No one I ever knew or heard of was hospitalized or died… and it would have been a BIG deal. There were lots of us kids around ; 800 or so in the Catholic elementary school I attended in the small town where I grew up , so a serious case must have been rare
Why are vaxxed individuals catching this measles infection?
Why are people being hospitalized?
This is not same disease we once knew.
While the MMR vaccine is reasonably efficacious, it’s not 100%. Instead, it’s around 95%*/- So, if the ‘outbreak’, is large enough, some people who were vaccinated might get it as it’s simply a matter of statistical probability. The only way to truly be protected from the Measles…is to get the Measles. Breakthrough Measles infection are effectively non-existent. The reason people are being hospitalized is almost certainly due to pre-existing conditions.
My best friends mother caught measles in the late 50’s, she was pregnant at the time
Her sister was born with deformed twisted legs that had to be amputated at the hip
That’s what measles can do to pregnant women and their children
That’s Rubella, sometimes known as the German measles, but its not the same as measles. That what the R in the MMR vaccine is for. Yes, highly teratogenic.
Yes German measles, but the vaccine is MMR and it’s near impossible to get the vaccines separate
Only the timing and appearance of the rash presents different
Serious cases are rare. But they happen. They happened in your day too, you just didn’t hear about them.
I know someone whose daughter died of chickenpox. It happens. The risk is very low, but the risk of the vaccine is orders of magnitude lower. So unless there are specific medical issues, every child should be vaccinated against chickenpox. And every adult who had chickenpox as a child, and has now reached an age where shingles is a significant risk, should be vaccinated for that as well.
Nothing has changed. You simply didn’t hear about the ones who died. Either because they died before reaching school age, or the cause of death wasn’t discussed.
And yes, of course some vaccinated people will get it anyway. No vaccine is 100% effective. The measles vaccine is more effective than most. 90%-95%. That’s high. But it’s not 100%, so there will always be some people for whom it didn’t work. That’s yet another reason why we need and depend on herd immunity, and why people who deliberately refuse to have their children vaccinated without a legitimate medical reason are harming everyone.
Tell that to to all the children with autism
None of whom got it from vaccination. That idea was invented by the evil monster Andrew Wakefield, who is one of the most evil people in the world. He invented it for the sole purpose of creating a living for himself as an expert witness in parents’ lawsuits.
We don’t have a very good idea of the (multiple) causes of autism, although genetics is likely to be a major factor. But one thing we absolutely do know, because it’s been researched to death: the MMR jab is not one of the causes. If there were such a link it would have been found by now.
You be you and believe what you want
Something with a common denominator has caused the spectacular increase of Autism and the vaccines APPEAR to be the clear choice.
I know from personal experience what horrible side effects one can get from vaccines and we k own that polio vaccine was the cause of much death in India and Africa
Now I’m
Not 100% against vaccines and I’ve personally, again, seen what not vaccinating a person from polio can do, but there must be truth in vaccines and they must be produced in the most safest way possible with ingredients that are available… and they are not…
And we don’t need to give children 72 vaccines, their bodies can not tolerate it.
There has not been a spectacular increase. After discounting for a mere increase in diagnosis there has been some genuine increase, which is explainable by genetics.
What is going on? 20 million plus unvetted illegals entering this country might have a little to do with this.
40 million
Interesting that they don’t want to release very much information on the person’s age their racial makeup their health conditions or anything else. I don’t know if they learned anything from covid, we have no reason to trust anything they say
Illegal
Absolutely
You have no basis at all for that supposition.
Honestly, go back under your rock
Why don’t you? You’re the one supporting the utterly discredited Wakefield theory.
“The individual did not seek medical care before death….”
This begs the question: Did they seek it after death?