Migrant detention center in Texas closed amid flu outbreak after 16-year-old dies
In this June 2018 photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Tex. By Meagan Flynn Meagan Flynn Morning Mix reporter Email Bio Follow May 22 at 1:01 AM U.S. Customs and Border Protection has stopped taking detainees at its main processing center in McAllen, Tex.
Medical staff at the center identified migrants in custody with high fevers and exhibiting “signs of a flu-related illness,” CBP said, and are now providing medical treatment. On Monday morning, a 16-year-old migrant who had previously been detained at the McAllen facility was found dead in his cell in Weslaco, Tex. The migrant, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, had been diagnosed with influenza A one day prior, prompting Border Patrol agents to isolate him from other detained migrants, a CBP official told reporters this week.
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