US EditionMeasles cases in Texas rise to 663, state health department says
- State health officials reported that measles cases in Texas have risen to 663 as of late April 2025, linked to an outbreak starting in January.
- The outbreak emerged amid falling vaccination rates in the US and Mexico, with Minnesota studies showing most patients were unvaccinated.
- Texas counties including El Paso, which accounts for over 60% of cases, have seen growing transmissions and hospitalizations totaling 87 people since January.
- State officials confirmed two unvaccinated school-aged children died from measles complications, and 17 new cases reported recently were among unvaccinated or unknown status individuals.
- The outbreak risks undermining the US measles elimination status and highlights the critical need for immunization with two MMR vaccine doses against this highly contagious virus.
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Texas accounts for more than half of the 884 measles case in the US
With one-fifth of states seeing active measles outbreaks, the U.S. is nearing 900 cases, according to figures posted Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s confirmed measles cases count is 884, triple the amount seen in all of 2024. The now three-month-long outbreak in Texas accounts for the vast majority of cases, with 663 confirmed as of Tuesday. The outbreak has also spread to New Mexico and Oklahoma. Two unv…
Texas measles outbreak now over 660 cases, but fewer than 10 actively infectious
DALLAS — Texas health officials reported 17 new measles cases on Tuesday, bringing the total confirmed cases since late January to 663. The state’s public health department estimates that fewer than 10 of the confirmed cases — about 1% — are “actively infectious.” Since the outbreak’s start, 87 people in Texas have been hospitalized, and two school-aged children have died, according to the ...
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