More measles cases have been confirmed in New Jersey and Kentucky as health officials work to treat patients in an ongoing outbreak in Texas.

The United Family pharmacies will be offering the MMR vaccine to protect against measles to local Texas communities. Here is what we know.

LUBBOCK, Texas, EE.UU. (AP) — Una persona en el oeste de Texas que fue hospitalizada con sarampión ha fallecido, la primera muerte en un brote que comenzó a fines del mes pasado. La portavoz del Centr

Por Neha Mukherjee, CNN La primera muerte por sarampión en el creciente brote registrado en el oeste de Texas fue la de un niño en edad escolar. El niño no estaba vacunado y había sido hospitalizado e

Representative Kim Schrier, a Washington Congresswoman and former pediatrician, said the measles outbreak in Texas could have been avoided.

The Mexia Independent School District reported on its Facebook page they had a confirmed case of measles, which the health department later said was not the case.

Reported cases of the highly contagious disease are likely to grow, officials say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said the measles outbreak in west Texas is a “call to action,” as he encouraged parents to consider whether

Dozens of children have contracted measles in the state’s largest outbreak in 33 years. Online, some are blaming vaccines for the disease’s spread.

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.

I recognize the serious impact of this outbreak on families, children, and healthcare workers,” Kennedy wrote on X Friday night.