SAN DIEGO — Health officials across the United States are on high alert after the country's first reported measles death in nearly a decade, amid a growing number of cases in Texas. The victim was a ...
Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases continue to rise in rural West Texas.
The number of confirmed measles cases in western Texas grew to 146, and it is possibly spreading to the central part of the state and neighboring New Mexico, health officials said Friday.
The death, reported on Wednesday, was the first U.S. fatality from the highly contagious disease in a decade. Government data ...
Measles is one of the world’s most contagious viruses, infecting the respiratory tract before spreading throughout the body.