The New Mexico state health department says five people in a county detention facility have measles. The Luna County ...

A measles outbreak has reached the Luna County Detention Center in Deming, New Mexico, marking the first confirmed cases in ...

Five people who are incarcerated at a New Mexico county detention facility have measles, the state health department said Thursday. The Luna County Detention Center, located in the southwest New ...

The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) yesterday said it is investigating a measles outbreak at a correctional facility in Deming, after five detainees tested positive for the virus, as federal ...

Kentucky is in the throes of a measles outbreak. Health officials in the state have confirmed that an outbreak of the highly contagious respiratory virus has spread to Fayette County after beginning ...

Amid the outbreak, the department reported 20,304 New Mexicans were vaccinated against measles from Feb. 1 to April 26, compared to 10,860 vaccinations during the same time last year.

Other states with active outbreaks include Colorado, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Tennessee. Measles is caused by a highly contagious airborne virus. It is ...

Data from the Texas Department of State Health Services tracking the measles outbreak in West Texas showed no new cases of the disease on Friday since the June 3 numbers were released.

New Mexico added two cases in the last week for a total of 81. Seven people have been hospitalized since the outbreak started. Most of the state’s cases are in Lea County.

New Mexico had 86 measles cases Friday. Five new cases were confirmed this week in a jail in Luna County, which prompted health officials to urge locals to get vaccinated and halted in-person visits.

The U.S. logged 122 more cases of measles this week—but only four of them in Texas—while the outbreaks in Pennsylvania and Michigan have officially ended.