Measles Outbreak: Vaccination Shortages Aggravate the Health Crisis in Mexico

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In 2025, Mexico recorded 4,452 cases of measles and 18 deaths. Health authorities are urging the population to get vaccinated, although hospitals report vaccine shortages in several regions.

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At the beginning of February this year, a nine-year-old Mennonite boy who traveled with his family from Seminole, west of Texas, to the Mennonite community called Swift Current, in Cuauhtémoc municipality, Chihuahua. On Tuesday, February 11, the infant began with symptoms, including red spots on the skin, and the case was officially confirmed as measles on February 20. During his stay he attended school, which started the measles transmission ch…

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Mexico faces a worrying outbreak of measles that has left 18 dead and more than 4,450 registered cases in 2025, showing a growing public health problem. Given this situation, the authorities have insisted on the importance of the population going to medical centers to immunize. However, the prevention strategy seems to contradict in practice, leaving in question the effectiveness of the campaigns at the national level and in the capital of the c…