A man who was admitted to a hospital with measles, died of measles in West Texas, the first death in a outbreak that began last month.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesman Melissa Whitfield confirmed the death on Wednesday.
It was not clear that the age of the patient, who died. Covenant Children Hospital in Lubock did not respond to the immediate remarks request. The state health department said on Tuesday that the outbreak of measles in rural west Texas has increased to 124 cases in nine counties.
There are nine cases in Eastern New Mexico. Measles is a respiratory virus that can survive in the air for two hours.
According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 9 out of 10 people will get virus if they are susceptible. Most children will overcome measles if they obtain it, but infection can lead to dangerous complications such as pneumonia, blindness, brain inflammation, and death.
Outbreak is spreading to a large extent in the Menonight community where small cities are separated from the huge parts of oil rig-dot open land, but work, church, grocery purchases and traveling between Otho-Day It is connected due to people.
