Texas Child is reported for the first time the death of measles in a decade for the first time
A Texas child is the first in the United States to die of measles in a decade.
An adult not vaccinated in new-mexic was tested positive for measles after death, state health officials announced on Thursday.
The patient would be the Second death of measles in 2025 – And the second in the United States in a decade – following an unvaccinated school child who died at the end of February in the west of neighboring Texas in the middle of an increasing epidemic of nearly 160 people identified as infected with very contagious disease. The epidemic, which is suspected of spreading in the east of New Mexico, is the largest in the country in six years.
The New Mexico resident did not ask for medical care before dying, but the person was tested positive for measles, according to a department of state health press release. The cause of the death of the person is the subject of an investigation.
The state health officials have not published any detail on the deceased, although the officials said that the new case was not one of the nine cases identified by the state. The spokesman for the Ministry of Health, David Morgan, said that it would be the first death of state measles in at least 40 years, citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has files dating from 1985.
“We do not want to see the New Mexicans fall sick or die of measles,” said Dr. Chad Smelser, assistant epidemiologist of the state of the health department of new-mexic. “The measles-human-rublla vaccine (MMR) is the best protection against this serious disease.”
Every 10 cases of new -mexic – six adults and four children under the age of 17 – are in the county of Lea, which borders the spicent of the Texas epidemic in the county of Gaines. In Texas, there were at least 22 hospitalizations. Before the resident of the deceased New Mexico, the nine previous cases of the State did not require hospitalization.
The cases were massively among the people who were not vaccinated or had no known vaccination status. Officials and experts have stressed that vaccination is the best protection against measles.
This story has been updated To clarify the cause of death.