On Wednesday, health officials in Kansas confirmed on Wednesday in the outbreak of the southwestern corner of the state associated with Texas and New Mexico.
Last week, American measles topped 700, as Indiana joined five other states with active outbreak. Even as the virus and United States centers continue to fight diseases and prevent the re -deployment of a team to West Texas, Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Junior at the television cabinet meeting on Thursday that measles issues were a plateau at the national level. The United States has more than twice the number of measles it seen in 2024.
Texas reported most of the measles. Two children of non -embemer primary aged died due to measles -related diseases near the disease outbreak of the West Texas countryside. The death of an adult in New Mexico, who has also been vaccinated due to measles.
Other countries with active outbreaks – which are defined as three or more cases – include Indiana, Akllahoma and Ouhayu.
Multiple disease outbreaks assert health experts' concerns that the virus will be affected in other American societies with low vaccination rates and that spreading can extend for a year. The World Health Organization said that the cases in Mexico are linked to Texas's outbreak.
Measles are caused by a very infection virus that is carried by air and spreads easily when the affected person breathes, sneezes or coughing. It can be prevented through vaccines, and has been listened from the United States since 2000.
Here is what you need to know about measles in the United States
How many measles are in Texas and New Mexico?
Texas began in late January. State health officials said on Tuesday that there are 20 new cases of measles since Friday, thus totaling 561 in 23 provinces – most of them in West Texas. Two others were taken from Texas to the hospital, bringing the total 58 throughout the period of the outbreak of the disease, and Reeves Province recorded its first condition.
On Tuesday, state health officials estimated that about 4 % of cases – less than 25 – actively contagious.
Sixty -five percent of Texas cases in Jeans Province, with a population of 22,892, as the virus began to spread in the Minunite community closely and enthusiastic. The province has recorded 364 cases since late January – just over 1 % of the province's population.
The death of April 3 in Texas was a 8 -year -old child, according to Kennedy. Texas officials said that the child had no basic health conditions and died of “what the child's doctor described as a pulmonary measles.” An uncomfortable child died without any basic conditions due to measles in Texas in late February – Kennedy said at the age of 6.
New Mexico announced five new cases on Tuesday, when the total state reached 63. Donna Anna province reported its first case. Most state cases in Lea County. Two in Eddie County and one in Chavez Province.
State health officials say the cases are linked to Texas's outbreaks based on genetic tests. New Mexico reported her first measles death in an adult on March 6.
How many cases are in Kansas?
Health officials announced on Wednesday that Kansas has 37 cases in eight provinces in the southwestern part of the state.
Vinnie, Ford, Grant, Gray and Morton provinces have less than five cases each. Haskel province has more than eight cases, has Stevens County Seven, and Kiwa Province has six.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the state of Texas and New Mexico said based on genetically tests in Stevens Province on March 13, linked to Texas and New Mexico outbreaks on the basis of genetic tests. But health officials did not specify how the person was exposed.
How many cases are in Oklahoma?
The cases in Oklahoma remained fixed in 12 total cases on Tuesday: a certain and three potential. The Ministry of Governmental Health said that the first two potential cases are “linked” with West Texas and New Mexico's outbreaks.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health Ministry said that the exposure of measles had been confirmed in Oklahoma City, Tolsa, Rogers and Coastter provinces, but he did not mention the provinces that had cases.
How many cases are in Ohio?
The outbreak of Nox County in the east, in the center of Ohio, injured 20 people until Tuesday, according to a press statement issued by the Ministry of Health in the province, but seven of them do not live in Ohio. In 2022, the outbreak of measles was exposed in the center of Ohio 85.
The Ministry of Health in Ohio confirmed 20 cases in the state last week: 11 in Ashtaba Province, near Cleveland, seven in the Nox Province and one in Allen and Hemems provinces. The state modernizes its number on Thursday, and includes only Ohio residents.
Ashtabla province with an unborn person began to have interacted with someone who traveled internationally.
How many cases are in Indiana?
Indiana confirmed six continuous cases of measles in Allen County in the northeastern part of the state – four non -imprisoned minors and two unknown adults.
The Ministry of Health in Allen Province said on Wednesday that cases are not related to other outbreaks. The first case was confirmed Monday.
Where does measles appear in the United States?
The measles cases were also reported in Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rod Island, Tennessee, Vermont, and Washington.
The American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determines the outbreak of three or more cases. The agency calculated seven qualified groups in the case of outbreaks in 2025 as of Friday.
In the United States, cases are often traced to a person who caught the disease abroad. It can then spread, especially in societies with low vaccination rates. In 2019, the United States witnessed 1,274 cases and has almost lost its position in eliminating measles. So far in 2025, the number of diseases control center is 712.
Do you need a MMR supporter?
The best way to avoid measles is to get a measles vaccine, mumps and measles (MMR). The first shot is recommended for children between the ages of 12 and 15 months and the second between 4 and 6 years.
Scott Weaver, with the global virus network, an international alliance, said that people who suffer from a great risk of infection who got the shots many years ago may want to think about getting enhanced if they live in an area with outbreak. These may include family members who live with a person with measles or those especially exposed to respiratory diseases due to basic medical conditions.
The Disease Control Center now said that adults with “presumed immunity evidence” generally do not need measles shots. The criteria include written documents for adequate vaccination early in life, or the laboratory assertion of the previous infection or birth before 1957, when most people would have been infected normally.
The doctor can request a MMR laboratory test to check the levels of antibodies, but experts do not always recommend it and may not be covered by health insurance plans.
Getting the MMR snapshot is not harmful if there are concerns about the decline in immunity.
The agency said that people who have documentation to receive a live measles vaccine in the 1960s do not need to be reinforced, but people who were immunized before 1968 must be re -assembled with an ineffective measles vaccine made of a “killing” virus at least one dose. This also includes people who do not know what kind they got.
What are the symptoms of measles?
The measles first affect the respiratory system, then spread throughout the body, causing high fever, runny nose, coughing, red eyes, water and rash.
The rash generally appears after three to five days of the first symptoms, from flat red spots on the face and then spread down to the neck, trunk, arms, legs and feet. When the rash appears, the fever may increase more than 104 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Center for Disease Control.
Most children will recover from measles, but the infection can lead to serious complications such as pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling and death.
How can you treat measles?
There is no specific treatment for the group, so doctors generally try to relieve symptoms, prevent complications and maintain patient comfort.
Why vaccination rates are important?
In societies with high vaccination rates – exceeding 95 % – diseases such as measles have a more difficult time to spread across societies. This is called “herd immunity.”
But childhood vaccination rates have decreased in the country because the epidemic and more parents are calling for the relief of religious or personal conscience to exempt their children from the required shots.
The United States witnessed a rise in measles in 2024, including the outbreak of Chicago, which fell ill more than 60.
