A sign “measles test” in Gaines County, Texas, was seen as an outbreak, which attracted attention to its spread to other parts of the state, which on February 25, 2025, Dirk, USA Seminole, SAS.
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A school-age child died of measles in West Texas, the first death to the disease in the United States in a decade. According to the Lubbock City Health Department, the child was not vaccinated with measles.
The death confirmed by Katherine Wells, public health director of Lubbock Department of Health, is Quick explosion In rural Texas, at least 124 people, mainly children, have contracted this.
according to Texas Department of Health Services.
The number is not the latest, said Dr. Lara Johnson, a pediatrician and chief medical officer at Labbock Covenant Children’s Hospital.
Johnson said in an email that her team has cared about “about 20” children with measles so far.
All of these children were acknowledged for breathing difficulties, she said. No one was vaccinated with measles.
So far, the outbreak has been confined to parts of Texas, which borders New Mexico. The state also reported Nine cases of measlesbut officials did not say whether they were connected.
This is the first measles death reported in the United States since 2015 Washington woman dies. Health officials at the time said she could be exposed in a clinic in a rural area of the state where the outbreak was taking place.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it was considered measles in 2000 due to the widespread use of the Measles Pink Vaccine (MMR).
Two shots prevent disease by 97% effective.
