{"id":8103,"date":"2025-02-26T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8103"},"modified":"2025-02-26T21:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T02:51:05","slug":"a-texas-child-who-was-not-vaccinated-has-died-of-measles-a-first-for-the-us-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/a-texas-child-who-was-not-vaccinated-has-died-of-measles-a-first-for-the-us-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles, a first for the US in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 A child who wasn\u2019t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious \u2014 but preventable \u2014 respiratory disease since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The school-aged child had been hospitalized and died Tuesday night amid the widespread outbreak, Texas\u2019 largest in nearly 30 years. Since it began last month, a rash of 124 cases has erupted across nine counties.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of State Health Services and Lubbock health officials confirmed the death to The Associated Press. The child wasn\u2019t identified but was treated at Covenant Children\u2019s Hospital in Lubbock, though the facility noted the patient didn\u2019t live in Lubbock County. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 A child who wasn\u2019t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious \u2014 but preventable \u2014 respiratory disease since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The school-aged child had been hospitalized and died Tuesday night amid the widespread outbreak, Texas\u2019 largest in nearly 30 years. Since it began last month, a rash of 124 cases has erupted across nine counties.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of State Health Services and Lubbock health officials confirmed the death to The Associated Press. The child wasn\u2019t identified but was treated at Covenant Children\u2019s Hospital in Lubbock, though the facility noted the patient didn\u2019t live in Lubbock County. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/a-texas-child-who-was-not-vaccinated-has-died-of-measles-a-first-for-the-us-in-a-decade\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles, a first for the US in a decade<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[375,81,150,388,304,571,580,1252,51,15],"class_list":["post-8103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-deaths","tag-measles","tag-outbreaks","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-texas","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8104,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions\/8104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}