US Vaccine Expert Blames Policy Failures for Measles Outbreak in Texas
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US vaccine expert blames policy failures for measles outbreak in Texas
Houston(US), Dec 27 (PTI) Multiple measles outbreaks in Texas have pushed US cases to their highest level in more than 30 years, a vaccine expert said.Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told PTI in an exclusive interview on Saturday that the resurgence of measles and pertussis (whooping cough) reflects gaps in both state and federal vaccination policy. “The policy gaps are both at the st…
CIUDAD JUÁREZ.— During the first months of 2025, the state occupied the first place nationwide in cases of measles virus. Contagions began in February in the Mennonite community in the municipality of Cuauhtémoc, by a citizen who contracted the disease in Texas, United States. According to the follow-up of EL UNIVERSAL, the virus spread in that region because most of the infected people did not have the measles vaccine, both in children and adul…
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