In 2000, the contagious disease measles was officially eradicated in the United States. However, since the rise of anti-vaccine anxieties during the COVID pandemic, a growing number of parents have refused to let their children be vaccinated.
Texas is the center of a measles outbreak. 702 children have measles; 95% had not been vaccinated. Two have died, neither of them had been vaccinated. The national number is certainly larger.
The Houston Chronicle reported:
The measles outbreak that started in the South Plains region of Texas surpassed 700 cases on Tuesday, according to health officials.
The latest update from the Texas Department of State Health Services shows the state has seen 702 cases of measles since the outbreak began spreading in late January. The outbreak, which has also spread to New Mexico and Oklahoma, is the largest in the United States since measles was declared eliminated in the country in 2000.
Two children, an 8-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl, died after contracting the virus, and 91 people have been hospitalized. Neither child who died had received the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, and they did not have any underlying medical conditions, according to the DSHS.
Roughly two-thirds of cases in Texas have been in children and teens. More than 95% have been in individuals who are unvaccinated, or whose vaccination status is unknown.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I had mixed feelings clicking on “Like.” I do not like what is happening to Texans, who are being misled for political purposes. But, it is the case that the Law of Unintended Consequences is undefeated. Parents who were convinced they were protecting their children turned out to have exposed them to great danger, and others, too.
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Was protecting their children their real motive ? Do liberal snowflakes want to endanger their own children, by getting them vaccinated ? How about it is neglect homicide and should be charged that way . Ignorance is no excuse!!! If a child under the age of 6 months whose parents would have vaccinated the infant should die after contact with a known unvaccinated individual ,drop the negligent part.
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For decades religion and vaccines coexisted with laws that protected public health. Children had to be vaccinated to register in public schools in most states, and few exemptions were given. Not to discount the fact that certain people had a bad reaction to the Covid vaccine, it wasn’t until the right wing politicized the vaccine that all these religious groups started rejecting it. Now we have a measles public health emergency that is spreading, and children are needlessly dying.
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Excluding J&J almost every side effect of the MRNA Vaccines was an immune response to a piece of the virus . The numbers no greater than in other vaccines. A response that was multiple times higher in the unvaccinated who came in contact with a live virus
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