A New Mexico Adult infected with measles died, said state officials on Thursday.
Death comes eight days after a non -vaccinated person Child in Texas died From the disease during a growing outbreak in the state that has infected nearly 160 people.
The adult was not vaccinated and did not seek medical help before he died, although the cause of death is still being investigated.
The victim just lived across the State Line from the West -Texas region where the outbreak is centered.
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Signs point the road to testing measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District opposite Wigwam Stadium 27 February 2025, in Seminole, Texas. Eighty cases of measles were reported in Gaines County with one death reported. (Jan Sonnenmir/Getty images)
“We don’t want New Mexicans to get sick or die from measles,” said Dr. Chad Smelser, deputy state pidemiologist. “The measles-mumps-Rubella vaccine is the best protection against this serious illness.”
The American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said earlier this week that it would send a team to help respond to the outbreak in Texas.
The adult is the 10th person in Lea County, New Mexico, confirmed that he sustained measles.
A member of the medical staff manages a dose of the measles vaccine to a child in a health center in Lubbock, Texas, 27 February 2025. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty)
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Fox News this week told him Recommended measles vaccines for community immunity During the outbreak, but he also continues to argue for personal choice.
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“We are going to do what is good for the American people,” Kennedy told Marc Siegel, Senior Medical Analyst from Fox News. “We will be honest for the first time in history against the American people about all the tests, about all the studies, what we know, what we don’t know, and that is going to forge people who want an ideological approach to public health.”
The Texas Department of State Health Services said that the majority of the infected non -vaccinated children are.
A year old river Jacobs is held by his mother, Caitlin Fuller, while he receives an MMR vaccine from Raynard Covarrubio in a vaccine clinic through the Lubbock Public Health Department March 1, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (Jan Sonnenmir/Getty images)
The outbreak started at the end of January.
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The CDC recommends: “All children receive two doses of MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine”, according to the website, adding that adults who do not have “probably Proof of immunity should get at least one dose of MMR vaccine. ”
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
