New Mexico adult dies of measles a week after Texas child died during outbreak

A New Mexico big infected with measles has died, authorities officials said Thursday. 

The decease comes 8 days aft an unvaccinated kid successful Texas died from the illness during a increasing outbreak successful the authorities that has infected astir 160 people.

The big was not vaccinated and didn’t question aesculapian assistance earlier dying, though the origin of decease is inactive nether investigation.

The unfortunate lived conscionable crossed the authorities enactment from the westbound Texas portion wherever the outbreak is centered. 

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Signs constituent the mode to measles investigating successful the parking batch of the Seminole Hospital District crossed from Wigwam Stadium Feb. 27, 2025, successful Seminole, Texas. Eighty cases of measles person been reported successful Gaines County with 1 decease reported. (Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)

"We don’t privation to spot New Mexicans getting sick oregon dying from measles," Dr. Chad Smelser, lawman authorities epidemiologist, said. "The measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is the champion extortion against this superior disease."

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said earlier this week it would nonstop a squad to assistance respond to the outbreak successful Texas.  

The big is the 10th idiosyncratic successful Lea County, New Mexico, confirmed to person contracted measles. 

A subordinate of the aesculapian unit administers a dose of the measles vaccine to a kid astatine a wellness halfway successful Lubbock, Texas, Feb. 27, 2025.  (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty)

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News this week helium recommended measles vaccines for assemblage immunity during the outbreak, but helium besides continues to advocator for idiosyncratic choice. 

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"We’re going to bash what’s close for the American people," Kennedy told Marc Siegel, Fox News' elder aesculapian analyst. "We’re going to beryllium honorable with the American radical for the archetypal clip successful past astir each the tests, astir each the studies, what we know, what we don’t know, and that’s going to choler immoderate radical who privation an ideological attack to nationalist health."

The Texas Department of State Health Services said the bulk of those infected are unvaccinated children. 

One year-old River Jacobs is held by his mother, Caitlin Fuller, portion helium receives an MMR vaccine from Raynard Covarrubio astatine a vaccine session by the Lubbock Public Health Department  March 1, 2025, successful Lubbock, Texas. (Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)

The outbreak began successful precocious January. 

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The CDC recommends "all children get 2 doses of MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine," according to its website, adding that adults who don’t person "presumptive evidence of immunity should get astatine slightest 1 dose of MMR vaccine." 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.