{"id":4160,"date":"2025-05-28T23:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/measles-outbreak-texas-vaccine-exemptions-children\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T23:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:03:04","slug":"measles-outbreak-texas-vaccine-exemptions-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/measles-outbreak-texas-vaccine-exemptions-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid measles outbreak, Texas is poised to make vaccine exemptions for kids easier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid measles outbreak, Texas is poised to make vaccine exemptions for kids easier
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AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas this year has been the center of the nation\u2019s\u00a0largest measles outbreak<\/a>\u00a0in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has\u00a0sickened more than 700<\/a>\u00a0in the state, sent dozens to hospitals and led to the death of two children who were unvaccinated.<\/p>\n

But even as the outbreak slows, a bill approved by state lawmakers and sent to Republican Gov.\u00a0Greg Abbott<\/a>\u00a0would make it significantly easier for parents to enroll their children in school\u00a0without standard vaccinations<\/a>\u00a0for diseases such as measles,\u00a0whooping cough<\/a>, polio and hepatitis A and B.<\/p>\n

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Amid measles outbreak, Texas is poised to make vaccine exemptions for kids easier AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas this year has been the center of the nation\u2019s\u00a0largest measles outbreak\u00a0in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has\u00a0sickened more than 700\u00a0in the state, sent dozens to hospitals and led to the death of two children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428,2179,2180,2371,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-infectious-disease","category-public-health","category-states","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}