AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — The deadly measles outbreak in West Texas has ended seven months after the first cases were reported, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Monday.
A total of 762 cases have been confirmed since late January, more than two-thirds of which were in children. No new cases have been reported in the past 42 days in any of the counties that “previously showed evidence of ongoing transmission,” DSHS said in a press release.
A measles outbreak is considered over after 42 days with no new cases because that’s double the disease’s maximum incubation period, the amount of time it can take between when a person is exposed to measles and when they get sick.
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