Gupta explains the challenges doctors face in preventing measles outbreak

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Gupta explains the challenges doctors face in preventing measles outbreak

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta is on the ground in West Texas, where the number of measles cases linked to an outbreak has grown to 58, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

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The United States.- Measles is worrying again in Texas: as there are 58 confirmed cases in the west of the state so far mark the largest outbreak in three decades, so the authorities fear that the real number will be higher. On the other hand, the Texas Department of Health Services (DSHS) reported that 13 people have required hospitalization. Only four of the infected were vaccinated. In turn, the disease, highly contagious, was considered erad…

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Keck Medicine of USC infectious disease expert available to talk about measles outbreak in Texas

Texas is currently experiencing an outbreak of measles, with at least 58 cases and more expected. In 2000, measles was declared eliminated from the U.S. population, largely due to a highly effective vaccination program that began in the 1960s after a vaccine was developed. However, measles outbreaks have recently increased throughout the U.S. amid declining vaccination rates. Saahir Khan, MD, PhD, an infectious disease expert with Keck Medicine o

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Measles can be 'neurologically devastating.' Local Doctor on U.S. Outbreak

It was officially declared eradicated 25 years ago, but health officials are standing up measles vaccination clinics in Texas. An outbreak of the highly contagious disease spread to nearly 60 people by midweek, with 13 ending up in the hospital. Wisconsin last saw a case of the measles last year in Dane County.  “Measles will always find a way,” said Dr. Tim Richer of Tosa Pediatrics. The Wauwatosa doctor tells WTMJ Wis. Morning News the current…