The US total number of reported measles cases in 2024 was 285. In the most recent year I can find online - 2021 - Texas reported fewer than 10 total cases.
This outbreak is quite large, and the death of a child is tragic and entirely avoidable.
@amymaxmen.bsky.socialWhen asked about the measles outbreak in West Texas, where a child just died and at least 124 people have been infected, RFK Jr. said, “We have measles outbreaks every year.”
And he incorrectly claimed that people have mainly been hospitalized for quarantine. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
washingtonpost.com
Texas child is first confirmed death in growing measles outbreak
The unvaccinated school-age child is the first confirmed fatality in Texas’s worst measles outbreak in three decades.
