Measles has sickened nearly 150 mostly unvaccinated people in rural West Texas, and a school-age child has died.

Texas’ health commissioner told lawmakers Monday they are still trying to determine the origin of a South Plains-Panhandle measles outbreak more than a month after the first patients reported symptoms.

The Texas Health and Human Services update on March 4, 2025, concerning the measles outbreak in West Texas. Here's what to know.

The measles outbreak that began in West Texas has now grown to 159 confirmed cases, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced on Tuesday afternoon. The case count, up from 146 cases on Friday,

The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in Texas has increased to 159 -- an increase of 13 cases in the past five days, authorities said on Tuesday.

As measles — a preventable disease the U.S. considered eliminated in 2000 — spreads through West Texas’ rural expanse, Klassen is sticking to an approach on vaccines that is a key tenet for Mennonites. Family leaders are the top decision-making authority — not outside recommendations, certainly not government mandates.

The first measles death in the growing outbreak in West Texas was a school-aged child.

Measles has sickened nearly 150 mostly unvaccinated people in rural West Texas, and a school-age child has died.

Close-knit religious community claims it has been made a scapegoat for wider issue of anti-vax sentiment in rural West Texas