The Texas measles outbreak has now infected a total of 561 people since January, including 20 new cases confirmed since last Friday.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said “fewer than 25 of the confirmed cases” are believed to be actively infectious as of Tuesday, April 15, based on when their rashes appeared. The counties with “ongoing measles transmission” are Cochran, Dallam, Dawson, Gaines, Garza, Lynn, Lamar, Lubbock, Terry and Yoakum.
The Metroplex has continued to avoid any known infections, despite some exposures to contagious people. The vast majority of Texas’ confirmed infections are in the South Plains and Panhandle regions of western Texas. A person who contracts measles is infectious four days before a rash appears, and four days after…