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KWBU: Lubbock health official says federal funding cuts will hurt efforts to contain measles outbreak kwbu.org/news-from-across-texa… #measlesoutbreak #texas #measles

Lubbock health official says federal funding cuts will hurt efforts to contain measles outbreak

In Lubbock, federal grants helped hire workers to help with measles testing, vaccination to combat the outbreak that has spread to 15 counties.
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Apparently the state of public health in Texas is... not great.

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With crumbling public health infrastructure, rural Texas scrambles to respond to measles

The measles outbreak in rural Texas has exposed how hospital buildings are ill-equipped. Meanwhile, long distances between providers makes testing people and transporting samples difficult.
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