Wednesday 07/May/2025 – 04:36 PM
The US State of Texas, USA, announced 702 measles infection, an increase of 19 cases since May 2, while the United States has struggled to spread this disease that affects children.
Increasing the number of measles in the United States
By May 1, a total of 935 confirmed cases of measles were reported in 30 judicial states, with 12 outbreaks reported this year, according to the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States.
Researchers have warned that the country had reached a turning point in the way of returning endemic disease, after a quarter of a century after the declaration of the elimination of the disease in the country.
The Texas Health Services Department said that the cases in Jainz Province, the center of the disease, have risen to 403 out of 396 since the last update.
The Ministry of Health in New Mexico announced 67 cases, unchanged from its latest update. Most state cases from Lea Province, adjacent to the Jines County in Texas.
In a related context, the United States is witnessing an accelerated outbreak of measles, with 935 confirmed cases until the end of last week, according to what the CDC control and prevention centers announced, a number three times more than the total cases of 2024.
The spread of measles in America
The largest outbreak in the state of Texas, which reported 683 injuries until Friday, is concentrated as a result of a 3 -month outbreak that extended to the states of New Mexico and Aklalahoma and Kanasas, and the disease killed two children at the age of primary school who did not receive the vaccine, while the death of an adult that was not inhibited in New Mexico was recorded.
