147 Measles Cases in West Texas Linked to Detention Facilities

0:00It's March 26. You're listening to Dallas News today, AI-powered local news. I'm Cory with the story. Health officials in West Texas have confirmed 147 measles cases this year through mid-March, with most links to immigration. Detention Facilities Hutsbeth County reports the highest number at 108, all among people held at the West Texas Detention Facility in Sierra Blanca. Meanwhile, El Paso County has logged 23 cases, including 17 detainees at the local jail and Camp East Montana, plus six in the community. Four of those community cases involved facility employees who visited a hospital, restaurants, and shopping areas before their diagnoses, raising. Concerns since many staff commute from nearby areas, no county residents outside the facilities have tested positive so far. Those employees are no longer contagious, according to state experts, and officials have not declared a formal outbreak at the Sierra Blanca site. Separately, 14 cases at the Fort Bliss Camp prompted a full lockdown there.

1:02Texas saw its biggest measles surge since 1992 last year, when over 1,000 cases hit the state, a reminder of how vaccines. Slashed infections by more than 95% since the 1960s, public health teams keep monitoring to prevent wider spread.