Measles cases continue to rise in Texas — see the latest numbers

The measles outbreak continues to dispersed successful the South Plains portion of Texas, arsenic the state’s wellness section released the latest numbers connected Tuesday, March 11.

A full of 223 cases person been confirmed since precocious January, according to a connection from the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).

That is an summation from 198 cases arsenic of Friday, March 7.

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Twenty-nine of the patients person been hospitalized, wellness officials stated.

The measles outbreak continues to dispersed successful the South Plains portion of Texas, arsenic the state’s wellness section released the latest numbers connected Tuesday, March 11. (iStock)

A bulk of the cases (98) person affected children betwixt 5 and 17 years of age, followed by 76 cases among young children 4 and under.

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Thirty-eight cases person been reported among adults 18 and up, and 11 cases are inactive pending age.

A motion is posted successful German astatine the entranceway of the children's exigency country astatine Covenant Children's Hospital connected Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, successful Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) (AP Newsroom)

Only 5 of the cases affected patients who received astatine slightest 1 dose of the measles vaccine. Eighty patients were unvaccinated and 138 had an chartless vaccination status, per the DSHS.

There has been 1 measles-related fatality, a "school-aged" kid successful Lubbock who was not vaccinated, according to a Feb. 26 report.

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"Due to the highly contagious quality of this disease, further cases are apt to hap successful the outbreak country and the surrounding communities," the wellness section said successful its statement. 

"DSHS is moving with section wellness departments to analyse the outbreak."

People be a supplication work astatine Covenant Medical Center aft the archetypal decease successful the Texas measles outbreak was reported connected Feb. 26, 2025, successful Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon) (AP Newsroom)

Fox News elder aesculapian expert Dr. Marc Siegel antecedently shared with Fox News Digital that measles is highly contagious.

"There is simply a 90% accidental you volition get it if you are unvaccinated and measurement into a country wherever idiosyncratic with measles was 2 hours before," helium cautioned.

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The champion mode to forestall measles is to person the two-dose measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and assorted experts.