Monday 31/March/2025 – 09:32 PM
The Ministry of Health in Texas said that the number of cases Measles In the state, it has increased by 20% since its last report 3 days ago, while experts warned that they expect the disease to spread more in the coming weeks.
High measles injuries in America
The Texas Health Services Department announced that the number of measles cases in the state reached 400, of which 270 are in Jainz Province, where the current beasts began, and Texas reported two deaths due to measles since the outbreak of the disease began.
New Mexico confirmed an additional injury, bringing the total number of injuries to 44 cases, and the states of Kansas and Aklouhoma linked the outbreak of the disease locally to the cases of Texas.
The spread of measles in America
The centers of diseases control and prevention in the United States, whose data is one day late for the Texas and New Mexico report, said that the total cases of confirmed measles reached 483 cases until March 27, an increase of 105 cases from the previous week.
Infectious disease experts explained that the volume of acceleration of the disease is uncertain, but it is clear that more cases will appear, and the number of measles cases in the United States has exceeded this year the entire number of cases of 2024.
Dr. Sabna Singh, chief medical official at the Texas Children’s Hospital, said that the concern is that cases are still spreading actively in the areas of the disease that we have not yet discovered, and warned that gatherings and travel during holidays may lead to increased injuries.
Experts have warned that low vaccination rates in the United States may make the population vulnerable to measles disease.
This disease, which may be particularly dangerous in young children, was supposed to be eliminated in the United States in 2000. But vaccination rates have decreased since then, and only 80% of the population of Texas Province has been vaccinated as the disease began to spread against measles, which is much lower than 95% of the so -called herd immunity.
