{"id":9198,"date":"2025-04-09T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9198"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:33:11","slug":"the-us-has-three-measles-related-deaths-and-hundreds-of-cases-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/09\/the-us-has-three-measles-related-deaths-and-hundreds-of-cases-heres-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The US has three measles-related deaths and hundreds of cases. Here\u2019s what to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-outbreak-texas-new-mexico-vaccine-rfk-d5444b3397ac7c4034e63becc219aa33\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas surpassed 500 measles cases Tuesday, just days after a third person&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-texas-rfk-death-vaccine-4e28b0edf5cab47980b40b2d47f0ec50\">died from a measles-related illness.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. has more than double the number of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-mmr-vaccine-texas-rfk-ff8e744b19ead87698d7217de02814ee\">measles cases<\/a>&nbsp;it saw in all of 2024.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-outbreak-texas-rfk-vaccines-8cf4641b04731c713edb524ca943490c\">Texas<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting the majority of them with 505. The cases include two young elementary school-aged children who were not vaccinated and died from measles-related illnesses near the epicenter of the outbreak in rural Texas, which led&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-texas-rfk-death-vaccine-4e28b0edf5cab47980b40b2d47f0ec50\">Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>&nbsp;to visit the community on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-kansas-ohio-mmr-vaccination-new-mexico-texas-569474272df9baaad1f6d73462ebe92a\">Other states with active outbreaks<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 defined as three or more cases \u2014 include New Mexico,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.datawrapper.de\/_\/aP4Au\/?v=3\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Kansas, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kansas<\/a>, Ohio and Oklahoma. The virus has been spreading in undervaccinated communities. The third person who died was an adult in New Mexico who was not vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-outbreak-texas-new-mexico-vaccine-rfk-d5444b3397ac7c4034e63becc219aa33\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Texas surpassed 500 measles cases Tuesday, just days after a third person&nbsp;died from a measles-related illness. The U.S. has more than double the number of&nbsp;measles cases&nbsp;it saw in all of 2024.&nbsp;Texas&nbsp;is reporting the majority of them with 505. The cases include two young elementary school-aged children who were not vaccinated and died from measles-related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-measles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9199,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions\/9199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}