Measles outbreak spreads in the US, Texas is the locality with the most confirmed cases

Measles outbreak continues in the US. (Source: istock)

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, the number of measles cases in the past four months in the country has doubled compared to the number of cases recorded in all of 2024.

Texas now has the most confirmed measles cases in the US, with an outbreak centered in the western part of the state that began nearly three months ago and now has 597 cases.

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Sixty-two percent of Texas’ cases are in Gaines County, population 22,892, where the virus began spreading in an unvaccinated Mennonite community.

An outbreak in the United States means health officials have recorded three or more cases of the disease. Other states reporting outbreaks that are still uncontrolled include Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Mexico.

Measles is caused by a virus in the Paramyxovirus family and is highly contagious and spreads through droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It is preventable with a vaccine and has been considered “eliminated” in the United States since 2000.

Health experts fear the virus will spread to other US communities with low vaccination rates and that the spread could last for a year.

In North America, a measles outbreak in Ontario, Canada sickened 925 people between October 2024 and April 2025.

That number is higher than the number of cases in Mexico that the World Health Organization (WHO) said were linked to the Texas outbreak.

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