Measles cases in Texas rise to 663 amid outbreaks in other US states

Measles cases in Texas rose to 663 on Tuesday, according to the state’s health department, an increase of 17 cases since 25 April, as the US battles one of its worst outbreaks of the previously-eradicated childhood disease. An unvaccinated child, aged six, with no underlying conditions died of measles in Texas in late February – Kennedy said. Most of the state’s cases are from Lea county, adjacent to Gaines county in Texas. The CDC’s confirmed measles cases count is 884, triple the amount seen in all of 2024. The US saw a rise in measles cases in 2024, including an outbreak in Chicago that sickened more than 60.