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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

nbcnews.com/health/health-news

NBC News · As Texas measles outbreak grows, newborn babies were exposed to the virus in Lubbock hospitalBy Erika Edwards