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The Pan American Health Organization helps coordinate disease surveillance and response across the Western Hemisphere as cases of infectious disease, such as measles, rise.
Measles cases have surpassed 650 in an ongoing multistate outbreak, but federal funding cuts could threaten the response.
Measles, a highly contagious viral disease preventable by vaccination, is resurging due to declining immunization rates driven by vaccine hesitancy and misinformation. Recent outbreaks in the US ...
CDC scientist: Texas measles outbreak response hurt by funding cuts The CDC is struggling to respond to the measles outbreak in Texas. The U.S. has reported more than 700 cases in 25 states.
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Measles, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine … ...
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Lubbock Public Health Director Katherine Wells discusses the West Texas crisis, loss of federal funding and the future of vaccination rates.
Measles cases in Texas are underreported and the response by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is impacted by recent funding cuts, a scientist said.
Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US Subscribers are entitled to 10 gift sharing articles each month.
But in Texas, his department’s cuts mean state and local health departments are losing $125 million in immunization-related federal funding as they deal with the measles outbreak.