AND New Mexico Adults infected with measles died, state officials said on Thursday.
Death comes eight days after an unconfirmed a child in Texas died From illness during growing outbreak in a country that infected with almost 160 people.
The adult was not vaccinated and did not seek medical attention before he died, although the cause of death is still under investigation.
The victim lived across the state line from the Western Texas region, where the outbreak was focused.
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The signs are on the way to the testing of measles in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital Court across from the Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. Eighty cases of measles were recorded in Gaines district with one reported death. (Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)
“We don’t want to see the New Mexicans get sick or dying of measles,” said Dr. Chad Smelser, Deputy State Epidemiologist. “The measles-kamp-rubell vaccine is the best protection against this serious illness.”
American centers for the control and prevention of the disease said earlier this week that they would send a team that would help respond to the epidemic in Texas.
She grew up a tenth person in Leo County, New Mexico, confirmed that she had contracted measles.
A member of medical staff manages a dose of measles vaccine to a child at the Lubbock Health Center in Texas, February 27, 2025. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty)
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told to Fox News this week yes Recommended vaccine for immunity measles in the community During the outbreak, but he still advocates a personal choice.
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“We will do what is good for the American people,” Kennedy told Marc Siegel, a senior medical analyst Fox News. “We will be honest with the American people for the first time in history about all tests, about all studies, what we know, what we do not know, and it will angry some people who want the ideological approach to public health.”
Texas State Health Service announced that most of the infected children were unresolved.
The one -year -old Jacobs River is held by his mother Caitlin Fuller, while he receives the MMR vaccine from Raynard Covarrubioa at the vaccine clinic by the Ministry of Public Health Lubbock on March 1, 2025 in Lubbock in Texas. (Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)
The outbreak began at the end of January.
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CDC recommends “All children get two doses of MMR vaccine (measles-pumpe-rubella),” is said on his website, adding that adults who do not have “assumed Proof of immunity At least one dose of MMR vaccine should be obtained. ”
Associated Press contributed to this report.
