On February 21, Seminole, Texas, will be shown in the measles in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District.
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Seminol, Texas -Last Saturday, Zach Holbrooks entered the mobile measles screening and vaccine clinic that helped him.
Executive director South Plains Public Health DistrictIncluding the Gains County, he has fallen to check the shots he has been guns so far until that day.
“Are you busy today?” Holbrooks asked two employees to two employees about the livestock show breeds outside the city of Seminole. “It’s not far away. We gave only one.” They answered.
Holbrooks has been working in the village, the village, which has been the epicenter of the largest measles for 30 years.
On Tuesday, March 4, a child who did not receive a six -year -old vaccination died in measles. Is now 159 confirmation cases and 22 hospitalizationBut local health authorities say the actual total will be much higher.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it tends to occur when the vaccination rate occurs. In the community, less than 95%. In terms of recording of Gaines County, kindergarten vaccination rate for measles, pandemic deeritis and rubella is 82%. Main health record.
But many children can be much lower because they go home schooling or go to private elementary schools.
Holbrooks have been busy since it occurred at the end of January. He is setting up mobile tests and vaccinations. He said that the remote part of West Texas has a large immigrant population in this remote, which is because the vaccination records are not known, so they circulate flyers with measles in other languages.
“We are mixed here, and there is a large -scale speaking population in Germany and a population that speaks Spanish.”
The authorities still don’t know how measles got from Seminole, but John Belcher, the city’s exhibition, understands why it spreads beyond the city limit.
He said that people who live here should basically drive anywhere. They take a car or truck to get groceries, take a doctor’s promise, attend the church, and drive miles to go to work.
Belcher said, “Within 200 miles, perhaps farther or perhaps a metal building, it would have come from a product manufactured by Gainz County.” “And this building was probably organized by Gainz County’s companies.”
People here must drive about 80 miles to fly at LubBock Airport.
Others often travel to a nearby community on New Mexico, New Mexico. There is that state Reported 10 verified measles cases. Thursday, New Mexican health officials confirmed that adult prosecutors who had not been positive for the virus were killed.
West Texas Living Heritage Museum’s Board of Directors exhibits historical information about Gaines County of West Texas.
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In Seminole, this outbreak has been infected with children since early January.
The local authorities say the Meno Night community has been hit by measles, but there is no confirmation of the exact number.
The groove shacks, which are owned and operated by the Menonite family, seem to run completely steam. Downtown Seminole and other businesses of people continue their daily lives.
Many Mennonites immigrated in the late 1970s. About 50 years later, Seminole remains thousands of Mennonites.
The father of Tina Siemens moved his family in northern Mexico when he was 8 years old in 1976. She grew up with Menonite West Texas Living Heritage MuseumIt tells the history of this part of West Texas native Americans and Meno Night Cultural Heritage.
Siemens said many Mennonites are not opposing the vaccine in principle, but some are looking for other solutions.
“Menonite is very eager for family therapy.” “So there may be a family. No one knows that no one may have had measles.”
State health officials said they had a lot of vaccines to all who needed this, and Holbrooks said he didn’t think there was a lack of access to the vaccine.
Finally, 214 people from Gainz County were vaccinated after the outbreak. Holbrooks think that some people are not high because some people are afraid of the idea of safety.
Holbrooks said, “I think there is a vaccine hesitation since Covid.
Health workers manage measles tests to automobiles on the Seminole Hospital District outside of the Seminole, Texas.
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According to Disease Control and Prevention CenterMeasles vaccines are safe and the two doses prevents infections as well as 97%of severe diseases.
Julie Carter lived in a lifetime seminar. Her three children are adults: 19, 22 and 30 years old. They got a measles vaccine before starting elementary school, but when they began to study how to improve their health, they became a vaccine skepticist.
Carter said, “I was overweight. I felt bad. “I went on a trained trip. I found a vaccine and I was not sure how healthy it was.”
Health officials say that the question of the vaccine continues to interfere with the vaccination effort. Also, this disease is not a major public health problem. In 2000, the CDC declared that the virus was removed from the United States.
Holbrooks told many young parents that measles are the past.
“People didn’t think much,” he said. But he urges the people in the community to do so because the results can be serious. “If it’s a simple rash, the rash does not lead to brain inflammation, intellectual disorders, death, pneumonia, hearing impairment, cramps.”
And measles, one of the most infectious viruses, can spread for several days without humans.
