Healthcare Innovation February 27, 2025
An unvaccinated child in Texas has become the first person in recent memory to die of the measles
The Texas Department of Health Services (TDSHS) has announced the “first fatality in a growing measles outbreak in the western part of the state, in an unvaccinated, school-age child.” CIDRAP has the news.
The case count in Texas remains at 124, and most cases have been identified in children. The TDSHS emphasized that measles is a “highly contagious respiratory illness” that can cause “life-threatening illness.” About “one in five people who get sick will need hospital care and one in 20 will develop pneumonia,” and rarely, “measles can lead to swelling of the brain and death.”
Measles was eliminated in the U.S....
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