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40 new cases of measles reported in Texas as outbreak grows to 198: Officials
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(GAINES COUNTY, Texas) -- The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 198, with 40 cases re...
Mary Kekatos, ABC News Mar 07, 2025

Over a dozen new measles cases in Texas outbreak in less than a week: Officials
Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images(TEXAS) -- The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 -- an increase of 13 cases in the past five days, a...
Bill Hutchinson, ABC News Mar 04, 2025

CDC says it is monitoring unknown disease in Congo
Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in the Democr...
Youri Benadjaoud and Megan Forrester, ABC News Mar 03, 2025
Amid growing Texas outbreak, how contagious is measles?
Measles virus particle, illustration. (Photo by KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Via Getty)(NEW YORK) -- Measles has been spreading across the U.S. for the last several weeks, sickening people in at...
Mary Kekatos, ABC News Mar 01, 2025

Texas measles outbreak grows to 146 cases, children and teens most impacted
Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images(GAINES COUNTY, Texas) -- The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 146, according to new data released Friday.Almost a...
Mary Kekatos, ABC News Feb 28, 2025

Measles cases reported in New Jersey, Kentucky amid ongoing outbreak in Texas
(DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- More measles cases are being confirmed across the United States as health officials work to treat patients in an ongoing outbreak in Texa...
Mary Kekatos, ABC News Feb 28, 2025

Some experts question RFK Jr. calling measles outbreak 'not unusual'
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In his first public comments on the measles outbreak hitting West Texas and New Mexico, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a ...
Cheyenne Haslett, Youri Benadjaoud, and Will McDuffie, ABC News Feb 27, 2025

What to know about measles
Natalya Maisheva via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Before there was a vaccine in 1963, measles infected millions and killed hundreds of people in the U.S. every year. Now, with the first measles death occ...
Dr. Jade Cobern and Dr. Amanda Hargett-Granato, ABC News Feb 27, 2025

Major medical groups push back against Trump administration's 'sex-based definitions'
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Some major medical associations are pushing back against the Department of Health and Human Services' updated definitions of biological sex ...
Dr. Allia Vaez, ABC News Feb 27, 2025

Measles cases reported in New Jersey, Kentucky amid ongoing outbreak in Texas
Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More measles cases are being confirmed across the United States as health officials work to treat patients in an ongoing outbreak in Texas.The Ke...
Mary Kekatos, ABC News Feb 27, 2025
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