Texas Tech
3/18/25
"MEMORANDUM
DATE: March 18, 2025
TO: Faculty, Staff & Students
FROM: Student Health Services
RE: Important Health Notice – Potential Measles Exposure
We are writing to inform you of a potential exposure to measles that occurred on the Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock, specifically at Carpenter/Wells complex, which features apartment-style housing
with no common spaces, and at the Student Health Services clinic,
between March 4-12, 2025.
If you were at these locations during this time, you may have been exposed to the virus. Individuals who are identified as having possible exposure will be contacted directly, including those in the affected residence hall and the health clinic."
NBC News: Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital
"On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.
By that time, other new moms, newborn babies and their families at University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock had unknowingly been exposed to the virus, considered one of the most contagious in the world. ..."
h/t @exador23
A #child had died of #measles in West #Texas, the first known #death from an #outbreak of the #disease that is spreading in the state & in neighboring #NewMexico, ofcls said on Wed.
#Health ofcls in #Lubbock & the TX DSHS said in a statement that the patient was an #unvaccinated school-age child who had died in the previous 24 hrs.
https://www.europesays.com/1875659/ First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that’s infected more than 120 people #america #DiseaseOutbreaks #GeneralNews #health #lubbock #Measles #MedicalTechnology #MelissaWhitfield #NMStateWire #Texas #TXStateWire #U.S.News #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews
Man living on "Scratch Hill" outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "I'm going west because this country's through, there isn't anything here for anyone. I'm going west to Lubbock and Arizona. Last year I worked in the cotton"
#Atoka #Oklahoma #AtokaCounty #Lubbock #Arizona #DorotheaLanges #ScratchHill #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
Some pictures were taken on bulk loaded Kodak Tri-X and never developed until I bought the cartridges from eBay. The seller says he got them in an auction in Lubbock, Texas but knows nothing else about whence they came.
Is this you?
#BelieveInFilm #Lubbock #Texas