Texas reports 13 new measles cases as the CDC arrives at the state.

(BLOOOMBERG) -Texas reported 13 new measles cases on Tuesdays, as Tuesdays and prevented US disease control and prevention centers dispatched a epidemiologist and doctor team to help the state’s occurrence.

The state has reported a total of 159 cases since January 23, which includes the death of a child, the first American measles death in 10 years. Texas officials said 22 people were hospitalized.

A spokesman for the Texas Health Service said that CDC’s seven teams are expected to arrive on Tuesday afternoon to provide guidelines for case surveys, hospital exposure tracking and prevention. Texas asked for help from the federal government on February 28.

Katherine Wells, director of the public health manager of LubBock County, expects to get a CDC infectious disease on Thursday to track the onset and support public health communication, including responding to local business calls to exposure protocols every Thursday.

Wells said the CDC’s Seven team was just the beginning. She expects to send more people if it is clear that the agency needs.

Meanwhile, New Mexico’s LEA County, next to Gain County’s Texas epicenter, reported that measles remained at 9 o’clock on Tuesday.

Measles are high contagious and deadly diseases. Wells said that this outbreak has not yet reached the highest level.

Wells said, “This is to ride a single flight on a single car or one plane. “This will take a long time to get this to the end of the onset.”

WELLS said County received two additional nurses to administer the vaccine and asked the additional employees to follow the contact tracking. She said she was well supplied with the remaining protection equipment at Covid-19 Pandemic, she said. The true help she needs is more people on the ground.

LubBock has only seen three measles cases so far, but it is the home of the covenant children’s hospital that cares for young measles patients in the area.

CDC is that the infectious disease information service officer provides support for at least 1 to 3 weeks at the onset site.

Wells said that the way to prevent the onset is through vaccinations, which limits how many people are vulnerable to infection. Texas established a mobile health clinic to administer MMR vaccines in this area, which is 93% for the virus after one dose. A Texas Health spokesman said from the beginning of February from the early February, and more than 250 vaccines were administered in the mobile and public health clinic, the Texas health spokesman said.

Texas Gain County is the home of a large Menonite community who applied for religious exemption from the vaccine of the school. According to the main data, almost 20%of the school -age children in Gain’s County have been exempted from the vaccine.

The CDC reported in nine states as of February 28, including New Mexico. Other cases in the United States are related to exposure to international travel. In 2024, the United States showed 285 positive cases in a year, and almost half of the incidents were admitted to complications.

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(Update with additional backgrounds in the seventh paragraph.)

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