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Measles outbreak in Texas is spreading beyond the Mennonite community: Officials

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At least 327 measles cases have been confirmed in Texas .

Nearly all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or in individuals whose vaccination status is unknown.

Mennonites have a small presence in the South Plains region the state, and in Gaines County , which is the epicenter of the outbreak.

Mennonites who live in Seminole , Texas , "lived in relative isolation in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1980s " "They missed out on the mid-century public health immunization campaigns in the U.S. , be they polio or smallpox or whatever," Nolt says.

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