one New Mexico Adults who contract measles died, state officials said Thursday.
Death occurs eight days after unvaccination Texas child dies The disease occurred during the outbreak of nearly 160 people in the state.
Although the cause of death is still under investigation, adults are not vaccinated and have not sought medical help before death.
The victim lives throughout the West Texas area in the center of the outbreak.
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Signs point to the road for measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District, Wigwam Stadium was on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. Gaines County has reported eighty cases of measles and one death has been reported. (Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)
“We don’t want to see New Mexico get sick or die of measles,” said Dr. Chad Smelser, a lieutenant epidemiologist. “The measles pink vaccine is the best protection for this serious disease.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said earlier this week that it will send a team to help with the outbreak in Texas.
The adult is the tenth person in Leah County, New Mexico, who is confirmed to have measles.
A member of the medical staff administered a dose of measles vaccine to children at a health center in Lubbock, Texas on February 27, 2025. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty)
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News this week Recommended measles vaccine for community immunity During the outbreak, he continued to advocate for personal choices.
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“We will do the right thing for the American people,” Kennedy told Fox News senior medical analyst Marc Siegel. “We will be honest with the American people for the first time in history to understand all the tests, all the research, what we know, what we don’t know, which will anger some people who want an ideological approach to public health.”
The Texas Department of Health Services said most of the infected are unvaccinated children.
His mother Caitlin Fuller holds a year-old Jacobs, and he received Raynard Covarrubio’s MMR vaccine at a vaccine clinic on March 1, 2025 at the Lubbock Public Health Department in Lubbock, Texas. (Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)
The outbreak began in late January.
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According to its website, the CDC recommends that “all children get two doses of MMR (Measles-Girls Vaccine)”, adding that there is no “adult without” Immune evidence At least one dose of MMR vaccine should be obtained. ”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
