Overview

• Mexico has confirmed 4,186 measles cases and 15 deaths this year, with more than 90% of patients lacking vaccination and cases detected in 21 states.
• Chihuahua remains the epicenter with 3,896 infections, 150 active cases and 14 hospitalizations, and officials reported a new death of a two‑year‑old in the state.
• The state health department is sending teams to agricultural fields and remote areas after fatalities concentrated among Indigenous people and farmworkers.
• PAHO reports more than 10,000 cases across the Americas, with Canada at 4,638 and the United States at 1,375 in what U.S. officials call the biggest surge in decades.
• Texas declared its western outbreak over after 42 days without new cases, tallying 762 infections and two deaths, and most Texas and Mexico fatalities occurred in unvaccinated people.