{"id":34097,"date":"2025-02-22T17:57:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/texas-measles-outbreak-grows-to-90-cases-worst-level-in-30-years\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:57:21","slug":"texas-measles-outbreak-grows-to-90-cases-worst-level-in-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/texas-measles-outbreak-grows-to-90-cases-worst-level-in-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, worst level in 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epicenter of latest outbreak had one of state\u2019s highest immunization exemption rates for 2023-24 school year<\/p>\n<p>The measles outbreak in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\">Texas<\/a> has grown to at least 90 cases, reaching historic levels, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Since late January, 90 cases of measles have been identified in the South Plains region, the state\u2019s department of state health services (DSHS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dshs.texas.gov\/news-alerts\/measles-outbreak-feb-21-2025\">reported Friday<\/a>. At least 16 patients have been hospitalized as a result.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/22\/texas-measles-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epicenter of latest outbreak had one of state\u2019s highest immunization exemption rates for 2023-24 school year The measles outbreak in Texas has grown to at least 90 cases, reaching historic levels, according to officials. Since late January, 90 cases of measles have been identified in the South Plains region, the state\u2019s department of state health &#8230; <a title=\"Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, worst level in 30 years\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/texas-measles-outbreak-grows-to-90-cases-worst-level-in-30-years\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, worst level in 30 years\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}