A New Mexico-based adult who was infected with measles has died, state health officials said on March 6, with the cause still to be officially determined.
The person’s age and other demographics were not immediately released. The individual was unvaccinated and did not seek medical care, a state health department representative said in a statement.
The person lived in Lea County, which is across the state border near the West Texas region, where a 159-person measles outbreak led to a child’s death. It is Texas’s largest number of measles cases in nearly 30 years and marks the first U.S. death from the highly contagious but preventable respiratory disease since 2015, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention….