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Of the 1,288 measles cases nationwide, a majority of them come from Texas. The Lone Star state’s 753 confirmed cases are the ...
In Texas, out of 254 counties, more than 200 are considered substantial- or high-transmission areas, according to the CDC. Texas has seen sharp increases in hospitalization rates for COVID-19 ...
CDC officials had initially weighed expanding a service they had been offering to hospitals in Texas — onsite assessments to root out how errors in ventilation and air filtration could be ...
Texas is pulling resources and staff members from other parts of its health department to respond to the outbreak, he said. The CDC is now “scraping to find the resources and personnel needed to ...
The letter comes as the CDC is facing workforce and funding cuts and Texas deals with its worst measles outbreak in 30 years. The state health department reported 279 as of Friday.
There have been six measles outbreaks so far this year, a CDC spokesperson told CBS News on Friday. The outbreak in Texas and neighboring states makes up the majority of cases.
A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 cases, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is now on the ground in that state to respond. The agency posted on X that it’s ...
The CDC previously deployed a team of 15 to Texas last month to aid in the response. That team's deployment ended on April 1, the same day Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
CDC data shows that the number of suicides involving a firearm in Texas has increased for years. In 2018, 2,263 people died by gun suicide compared to the roughly 2,600 last year, according to ...
CDC officials had initially weighed expanding a service they had been offering to hospitals in Texas — onsite assessments to root out how errors in ventilation and air filtration could be ...
A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 cases, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is now on the ground in that state to respond. The agency posted on X that it’s ...