, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is available to speak about the rising number of cases of measles in the U.S. Journalists are also welcome to quote from this .
The Texas Department of State Health Services on Wednesday the first death from measles in the ongoing outbreak in the South Plains and Panhandle regions of the state. The unvaccinated school-aged child had been hospitalized in Lubbock before passing away.
The department reported: “As of Feb. 25, 124 cases of measles have been confirmed in the outbreak since late January. Most of the cases are in children. Eighteen people have been hospitalized over the course of the outbreak.”
Dr. Moss is a professor in the departments of Epidemiology; International Health; and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and executive director at the Bloomberg School’s International Vaccine Access Center.
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