American measles cases exceeded 700 from Friday, limiting a week in which Indiana joined five other states with active outbreaks, Texas grew by another 60 cases and a third death related to measles was made public.
The Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said at a television cabinet meeting on Thursday that measles cases stagnated nationwide, but the virus continues to spread mainly in unvaccinated people, and the US disease control centers for the control and prevention of prevention redistributed a Texas.
The United States has more than double the number of measles cases that saw in all 2024, and Texas informs most of them with 541.
Texas cases include two non -vaccinated primary children who died of measles -related diseases near the epicenter of the outbreak in rural areas of western Texas, which led Kennedy to visit the community on Sunday. The third person who died was an adult in New Mexico who was not vaccinated.
Other states with active outbreaks, defined as three or more cases, include New Mexico, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio and Oklahoma.
The multiestado outbreak confirms the fears of health experts that the virus is strengthened in other US communities with low vaccination rates and that propagation could extend for a year.
The World Health Organization has said that cases in Mexico are linked to the Texas outbreak.
Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that is transmitted in the air and easily spreads when an infected person breathes, sneezes or cough.
It can be prevented through vaccines and has consulted in the eliminated legs from the USA since 2000.
This is what you need to know about measles in the US.
How many cases of measles are in Texas and New Mexico?
The Texas outbreak begged at the end of January. State Health officials said Friday that there were 36 new measles cases since Tuesday, which took the total to 541 in 22 counties, most of them in western Texas.
A total of 56 Texans have been hospitalized through the outbreak.
Of the confirmed cases, state health officials estimated on Friday that around 5% are actively infectious.
The sixty -five percent of the Texas cases are in Gaines County, population 22,892, where the virus began to spread in a very united subvaccated Mennonite community.
The County has registered 355 cases since January, almost approximately 1% of the county residents.
The death of last week in Texas was an 8 -year -old boy, according to Kennedy.
Texas health officials said they had no underlying health conditions and died of “what the child’s doctor described as pulmonary insufficiency of measles.”
A child or measles died in Texas at the end of February, Kennedy said he was 6 years old.
New Mexico announced two new cases on Friday, taking the total state to 58. State health officials say that the cases are linked to the Texas outbreak based on genetic tests.
Most are in Lea County, where two people have been hospitalized, two are in Eddy County and one is in Chaves County.
New Mexico reported his first death related to measles in an adult on March 6.
How many cases are there in Kansas?
Kansas has 32 cases in eight counties in the southwest part of the State, health officials announced Wednesday.
Two of the counties, Finney and Ford, are new on the list and are the main population centers in that part of the state. Haskell County has the most with eight cases, Stevens County has seven, Kiowa County has six and the rest has five or less.
The first informed case of the State, identified in Stevens County on March 13, is linked to the shoots of Texas and New Mexico based on genetic tests, said a spokesman for the State Health Department.
However, health officials have not determined how the person was exhibited.
How many cases are there in Oklahoma?
Cases in Oklahoma increased on two Fridays to 12 in total: nine confirmed and three probable cases.
The first two probable cases were “associated” with the sprouts of western Texas and New Mexico, said the State Health Department.
A spokesman for the State Health Department said that measles exhibitions were confirmed in Tulsa and Rogers counties, but did not say what counties they had cases.
How many cases are there in Ohio?
Ohio’s Department of Health confirmed 20 cases of measles in the state from Thorsday: 11 in Ashtabula County, near Cleveland, seven in Knox County, and one in Allen and Holmes counties.
Ohio does not include non -residents in their count, said a spokesman for the State Health Department to The Associated Press.
The Knox County outbreak in the center-east of Ohio has infected a total of 14 people, according to a press release from the County Health Department, but seven of them do not live in Ohio.
In 2022, a measles outbreak in the center of Ohio became ill 85.
The outbreak in Ashtabula County began with a non -vaccinated adult who had interacted with some who had traveled international.
How many cases are there in Indiana?
Indiana confirmed six connected measles cases in Allen County in the northeast of the State: four are unnoticed minors, and two are adults whose vaccination status is unknown.
Cases have no known link with other outbreaks, said the Allen County Health Department on Wednesday. The first case was confirmed on Monday.
Where else appears measles in the United States?
Measles cases have also been informed in Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Yyy all.
The US disease control and prevention centers define an outbreak as three or more related cases.
The agency counted seven groups that were classified as shoots in 2025 until Friday.
In the US, cases and shoots are frequently traced for some who captured the disease abroad. Then it can be extended, as special in communities with low vaccination rates. In 2019, the United States saw 1,274 cases and almost lost its state of having eliminated measles.
Until now, in 2025, the CDC count is 712.
Do you need a MMR reinforcement?
The best way to avoid measles is to obtain the measles vaccine, papers and rubella (MMR).
The first shot is recruited for children between 12 and 15 months and the second between 4 and 6 years.
People with a high risk of infection who received the shots many years ago may want to consider whether they live in an area with an outbreak, said Scott Weover of Global Network virus, an international coalition.
Those may include family members who live with someone who has measles or those that are specified vulnerable to respiratory diseases because either underlying medical conditions.
Adults with “presumed immunity evidence” generally do not need measles shots now, CDC said.
The criteria include written documentation of adequate vaccination before in life, the tank of infection or birth before 1957, when most people would probably become naturally infected.
A doctor can request a laboratory test called MMR Pititer to verify their measles antibody levels, but experts do not always recommend it, and health insurance plans may not cover it.
Obtaining another MMR outlet is harmless if there are concerns about diminishing immunity, says the CDC.
People who have documentation to receive a live measles vaccine in the 1960s do not need to be revacted, but people who were immunized before 1968 with a vaccine of ineffective measures made of a “dead” virus should be revacted.
That also includes people who don’t know what kind they are going to.
What are the symptoms or measles?
The measles first infects the respiratory tract, then spreads through the body, causing a high fever, nasal secretion, cough, red, aqueous eyes and an eruption.
The eruption usually appears three to five days after the first symptoms, starting as flat red spots on the face and then extends down to the neck, trunk, arms, legs and feet.
When the eruption appears, the fever can increase about 104 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the CDC.
Most children will recover from measles, but infection can lead to dangerous complications such as pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling and death.
How can you treat measles?
There is no specific measles treatment, so doctors generally try to relieve symptoms, prevent complications and keep patients comfortable.
Why do vaccination rates import?
In communities with high vaccination rates, above 95%, diseases such as measles have more difficulty extending through communities. This is called “flock immunity.”
But children’s vaccination rates have decreased throughout the country since pandemic, and more parents claim religious or personal workers to exempt their children from the required shots.
The United States saw an increase in measles cases in 2024, including an outbreak in Chicago that ill more than 60.
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