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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Eleanor Klibanoff, Pooja Salhotra, Terri Langford and Jayme Lozano Carver

Texas leaders quiet amid the biggest measles outbreak in decades

Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock on Feb. 26, 2025. Covenant has added a patient screening check before entering the children's emergency entrance.
Covenant Children's Hospital, pictured on Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, has added a patient screening check before patients go to the children's emergency entrance. (Credit: Trace Thomas for The Texas Tribune)

Texas is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades, as cases have jumped from two to 146 in just one month. A child is dead, 20 more are hospitalized and the worst is likely still ahead, public health experts say, as Texas’ decreasing vaccination rates leave swaths of the state exposed to the most contagious virus humans currently face.

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