US EditionTexas health officials announce nation-leading 20 more measles cases
- Texas health officials announced 20 new measles cases on Tuesday, raising the state total to 561 cases since late January.
- The outbreak, centered mainly in West Texas's Gaines County, began with just two cases and expanded due to low vaccination rates.
- Most cases involve unvaccinated or vaccination-unknown individuals, hospitalizations reached 58, and two unvaccinated children have died from measles complications.
- Texas has the highest share of the 712 confirmed measles cases reported across the United States, with health officials cautioning that more infections are expected both within the state and in nearby regions.
- The outbreak suggests ongoing challenges in vaccination coverage, as Texas does not mandate exclusion of unvaccinated children from daycares despite CDC vaccine recommendations.
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Public health officials report measles outbreak in Indiana
Lake County Health Dept. clinics offer measles vaccines Indiana’s first confirmed case of measles has been reported in Allen County. This is Indiana’s first case since measles was confirmed in a Lake County resident in early 2024. While the risk to the general public is low, measles is a highly contagious respiratory illness that can […]
Photo: Shutterstock The Texas State Department of Health Services reported an outbreak of measles mainly in western Texas, since late January more than 541 cases of the disease have been identified, of which at least 56 have required hospitalization, according to authorities. Health officials indicated that at least two deaths have been recorded in school-age children residing in the affected area. According to the report, minors were neither va…
19 measles cases reported in Upshur County, here's what we know
UPSHUR COUNTY, Texas (KETK) - The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has confirmed 19 cases of measles at an isolated location in Upshur County. All of the cases have been linked to two people who visited the county from out of the state and at the moment officials state that no known cases emerged from Upshur residents. "All affected persons are isolated from the public and are in quarantine at this same location, and are in daily…
In the state of Texas, hundreds of people are ill with the measles, although the vaccination rate is high. However, vaccination gaps in individual regions are sufficient to allow the extremely contagious disease to spread.
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