Another state joins list of those with more cases of measles

KANSAS CITY (AP) —Indiana health officials announced a measles outbreak Wednesday, with six cases that have no known links to the outbreaks in several other states.

The U.S. has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024.

Texas 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 Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to visit the community on Sunday…

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