Alison Young
Associate Editor, Investigations and Investigative Reporter at Houston Landing
New: Associate Editor for Investigations + investigative reporter @Hou_Landing, [email protected]. Pandora’s Gamble author [email protected]
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1 week ago |
houstonlanding.org | Alison Young
Vaccination is the best way to protect against becoming infected with measles, health officials say, and there are many places in the Houston area where the shots are available. “This vaccine has been used for decades. We’ve found it to be very, very safe. It is very, very effective,” said Dr. David Persse, the City of Houston’s chief medical officer.
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1 week ago |
houstonlanding.org | Alison Young
As Texas battles against its largest measles outbreak in decades, immunization data obtained by Houston Landing shows that more than 1,000 kindergarten and seventh grade students in the Houston ISD either had vaccination exemptions or lacked proof they were fully immunized against the highly contagious virus.
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1 month ago |
houstonlanding.org | Alison Young
The latest Houston measles case – an infant who was too young to be vaccinated – arrived in the city not from the growing West Texas outbreak, but in the way the virus typically does: through international travel. “This is what we have exclusively seen in Houston the last bunch of years: an unvaccinated person who traveled internationally,” Dr. David Persse, Houston’s chief medical officer, told the Landing.
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1 month ago |
houstonlanding.org | Alison Young
The Houston Health Department on Friday was investigating two possible cases of measles, a development that comes as the massive Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is drawing thousands of visitors into the city for livestock exhibitions, concerts and other events. “The Rodeo is aware of the measles outbreak in west Texas and is closely monitoring the situation with the Houston Health Department,” the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo said in an emailed statement Friday evening.
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1 month ago |
houstonlanding.org | Alison Young
A growing outbreak of more than 120 measles cases that began in a West Texas community has health officials in Houston and across the state on alert for the dangerous and highly contagious disease to continue its spread among unvaccinated children and adults. On Wednesday the measles outbreak’s first death was announced by state health officials: A school age child who was unvaccinated. So far, 18 people have been hospitalized because of the ongoing outbreak..
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A happy story: “Before the new arrivals, there were only 44 Western Santa Cruz Giant tortoises in all of the zoos in the United States, according to the Philadelphia Zoo.” https://t.co/fsTv3zCekm via @NYTimes
Texas measles outbreak kills another child.
A school-aged child died on Thursday. This is the second Texas measles death in the ongoing outbreak centered in the South Plains region. The child was not vaccinated and had no known underlying health conditions. Read more: https://t.co/Y3cYM8tthU https://t.co/P9xEZchP9x
