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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1981
South Texans refuse measles immunizations
United Press International
Hundreds of parents have re
fused measles vaccines for their
children in south Texas, despite a
Senator
vows
to be
objective
Rabies bill
approved by
state House
United Press International
AUSTIN — The House gave
final approval to a bill Tuesday giv
ing Texas Counties and the State
Department of Health emergency
powers to handle rabies epide
mics, but amended the bill to app
ly only to carnivorous animals.
The amended bill, passed on
final reading by a 79-64 vote, now
goes back to the Senate.
Rep. Jerry Clark, D-Buna, cal
led the original bill “an overkill”
and offered an amendment to limit
the bill to carnivorous animals, so
all warm-blooded animals would
not be subject to quarantines.
“We’ve got to recognize that
wild animals are the real problems
that give us rabies across the state
and not domestic animals,” Clark
said. “When you go messing with
people’s cats and dogs and your
kids, you get into a critical area of
their life.”
The bill gives counties ordi
nance-making authority to require
registration and vaccination of car
nivorous animals to deal with
rabies in epidemic situations, and
allows the Department of Health
to quarantine regions of the state
for up to six months to control
rabies outbreaks.
Rep. Doyle Willis, D-Fort
Worth, said he supported the bill
and accused the original bill’s
opponents of taking up for cats and
dogs.
“There’s nothing more insi
dious than rabies,” Willis said. “I
can’t understand how we can take
up for cats and dogs and not have
an ordinance militated which
might keep one child in Texas
from having rabies.”
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spreading epidemic of red measles
that has infected more than 300
Texans and killed an infant.
Oscar Garza, a Harlingen im
munization specialist with the
Texas Department of Health, said
at least 134 confirmed cases of
measles have been reported in the
lower Rio Grande Valley with 40
of those occurring in the past two
weeks.
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AUSTIN — Sen. Hector Uribe,
D-Brownsville, indicated Tues
day he would remain objective re
garding the governor’s decision to
re-submit nomination of McAllen
Mayor Othal Brand to the Texas
Board of Corrections.
Brand, 61, was re-elected to a
four-year term last Saturday after
a bitter campaign against Dr.
Ramiro Gas so.
Gov. Bill Clements had with
drawn the nomination of Brand
last month when the mayor said he
could not attend a hearing before
the Senate Nominations Subcom
mittee.
Brand has been accused of
ordering videotapes showing
McAllen police officers brutaliz
ing prisoners to be destroyed. He
denied the allegations, but several
lawsuits have been filed against
him and the McAllen Police De
partment by former prisoners who
said they were beaten by police.
At the time Clements withdrew
the first nomination, Uribe said he
wanted an assurance that Brand
would not be renominated after
the Legislature adjourned on June
1 and the Senate would not have
an opportunity to confirm or re
fuse the appointment.
Since Brand is a constituent of
Uribe, the senator has the option
of invoking senatorial courtesy
and “busting” the appointment.
But Uribe indicated he would
not make the decision until Brand
appears before a hearing of the
nominations subcommittee.
“I’ve asked for a hearing on
Othal Brand because there are
some serious allegations against
him,” Uribe said. “I think it be
hooves the whole Senate to listen
to Brand’s answers to the allegfp
tions.”
However, the senator said he
was concerned about the appoint
ment because Brand would make
decisions affecting the Texas pris
on system.
“It (the epidemic) is not slowing
down,” said Garza. “This thing is
out of control. Now it’s hopping
from area to area. ”
Garza, who said the only
measles-related death in the na
tion this year was a 11-month-old
Harlingen infant who died last
month at a Galveston hospital,
said about half of the measles cases
in four south Texas counties have
occurred in young children.
He added that half of the 134
infected persons have been hos
pitalized and another 66 measles
cases in the lower Rio Grande Val
ley are suspected, but have not
been confirmed.
In El Paso, at least 144 measles
cases have been reported with
another 33 suspected cases, and
health officials of the west Texas
town see no end to the epidemic.
“I have declared an epidemic
and we are requiring all school-
age children to get a vaccine, re
gardless of whether they’ve
already been immunized,” said
Dr. Bernard F. Rosenblum, El
Paso city-county health director.
Rosenblum said health officials
have found that children given a
measles vaccine before 1968 are
capable of contracting the disease.
He explained that dead viruses
were used in pre-1968 vaccines in
stead of live viruses now in use.
Rosenblum said approximately
7,000 vaccinations have been
administered in El Paso in recent
weeks.
“We’re taking kids out of school
if they’re not immunized,”
Rosenblum said. “I don’t think
we’ve seen the end of this.”
Garza, who noted that the
Texas epidemic is the worst in the
nation other than a red measles
outbreak in Philadelphia, said
health teams traveled last week
into the measles-saturated poor
sections of south Brownsville, but
parents refused to allow their chil
dren to be vaccinated:
“We went in there with two
nurses, clerks and four aides
knocking on doors. We even had a
man with a megaphone going up
and down the streets, asking for
people to bring their children for
vaccinations,” Garza said.
Although the medical team was
prepared to administer at least 500
vaccinations, only 36 doses were
administered during two days of
door-to-door efforts.
“It’s very frustrating when you
know you can stop the disease and
more cases keep popping up. It’s
very frustrating,” Garza said.
“Maybe they have the feeling that
if God wills it, no matter what,
they’ll come down with the dis
ease.”
Other Texas cities have re
ported measles outbreaks, but
none as severe as the lower Rio
Grande Valley and El Paso.
Houston health officials saiii
least 37 cases had been confine
by late last week, but more nr
cases were expected in it:
weekly report issued
Wednesday.
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their children to local
clinics.
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