In Texas, officials are reporting that one unvaccinated child has died of measles. Officials say at least 124 people have been infected and 18 people hospitalized. Almost all have been babies and children who are unvaccinated or awaiting their second dose.
The United Family pharmacies will be offering the MMR vaccine to protect against measles to local Texas communities. Here is what we know.
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Person who tested positive for measles traveled to Texas State University, Twin Peaks restaurant in San Marcos, officials say
Parts of Texas and New Mexico have been struck by measles outbreaks, sickening nearly 100 people, health officials announced last week. The Texas Department of State Health Services said Friday that 90 cases have been identified in the state since January,
A child who wasn't vaccinated has died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious respiratory disease since 2015.
The first measles death in the growing outbreak in West Texas was a school-aged child. The child was unvaccinated and had been hospitalized in Lubbock, Texas, said Lauren Adams, Lubbock city spokesperson. This is the first US measles death since 2015, when a woman in Washington state died.
The first person known to have died from measles in the U.S. in a decade was announced by health officials on Wednesday and described as a "school-aged child" who perished in a children's hospital in West Texas,
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