{"id":35816,"date":"2025-03-12T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/cdc-expects-measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-to-expand-rapidly\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:16:38","slug":"cdc-expects-measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-to-expand-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/cdc-expects-measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-to-expand-rapidly\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC expects measles outbreak in west Texas to \u2018expand rapidly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died in outbreak in Gaines county, and doctors fear the spread of the extremely contagious disease<\/p>\n<p>Texas doctors say they are worried about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/mmr\">measles<\/a> spreading to population centers in an outbreak the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expects to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/han\/2025\/han00522.html\">expand rapidly<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Two people have died, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2025\/03\/texas-measles-outbreak-death-family\/681985\/\">including a child<\/a>, and at least 208 people have been sickened across west <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\">Texas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/newmexico\">New Mexico<\/a> after an outbreak of the vaccine-preventable disease took hold in rural Gaines county.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/12\/texas-measles-outbreak-spread\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died in outbreak in Gaines county, and doctors fear the spread of the extremely contagious disease Texas doctors say they are worried about measles spreading to population centers in an outbreak the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expects to \u201cexpand rapidly\u201d. Two people have died, including a child, and at &#8230; <a title=\"CDC expects measles outbreak in west Texas to \u2018expand rapidly\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/cdc-expects-measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-to-expand-rapidly\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about CDC expects measles outbreak in west Texas to \u2018expand rapidly\u2019\">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-35816","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\/35816","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=35816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}