LUBBOCK, Texas, EE.UU. (AP) — Una persona en el oeste de Texas que fue hospitalizada con sarampión ha fallecido, la primera muerte en un brote que comenzó a fines del mes pasado. La portavoz del Centr

The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 124 cases across nine counties, the state health department said Tuesday, and 18 people are hospitalized. The outbreak is largely spreading in the Mennonite community in an area where small towns are separated by vast stretches of oil rig-dotted open land but connected

Public health officials in New Mexico have said they suspect some of the state's cases are linked to the Texas outbreak, but haven't confirmed it. Measles is a highly contagious disease. Here's what you should know about how to protect yourself against measles,

Rural West Texas has 58 measles cases, and there are eight cases in neighboring eastern New Mexico. Here's what to know about measles and this outbreak.

As measles cases in Texas and New Mexico continue to increase, health officials are urging caution and vaccination. Here is what to know.

The measles outbreak — the largest in the state in 30 years — has spread from two cases in late January and now includes nine counties, most of them in the rural South Plains

In Texas, there were 146 cases of measles across the state and the South Plains, with 20 patients hospitalized. The best way to prevent getting sick is to get two doses of a measles vaccine.

The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.

Measles was considered to be eliminted in the U.S. in 2000, thanks to vaccine developments. But vaccination rates have dropped since the covid pandemic began.

Texas authorities on Wednesday announced the first measles death in the state's outbreak of the highly contagious disease. The death, of a school-age child, is the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015,

Nearly a month after the first reported case of measles in the South Plains, health officials have confirmed the first death due to the outbreak.