State health officials asked health care providers to take potential steps on patients with measles symptoms, especially in North Texas.
Texas health officials have issued a measles alert and urge people to be immunized after a dozen cases were reported this year.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said 11 cases were confirmed with Measles alert. In the last week 6 were suffered in Tarrant County, but county Public Health officials updated that number a total of nine cases.
Dallas and Denton reported two measles cases, Harris County has one. Agency officials say Texas had six reported cases of measles in 2011.
State health officials asked health care providers to take potential steps on patients with measles symptoms, especially in North Texas.
Measles is a airborne disease and easily spreads through coughing and sneezing.
Child suffered with Measles
Tarrant County Public Health experts traced some of the area’s measles cases to an adult who had traveled outside the U.S., the agency said. Further details about the person and where he or she traveled were not immediately released.
“Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, 90 percent of the people close to that person who are not immune or vaccinated will also become infected with the measles virus,” according to state health officials.
People should check their immunization status with their health care provider, the agency said.