Notes from the Field: Measles Outbreak on an Army Post and a Neighboring Community — El Paso, Texas, July–September 2019

摘要

On July 3, 2019, Army Public Health (APH), located at Fort Bliss, Texas, received a report of a suspected case of measles in a woman who worked at Fort Bliss. The woman did not live on the post and had no recent reported travel. Fort Bliss, one of the largest U.S. Army posts, is located in El Paso County, Texas, which has 800,000 residents * and shares a border with Mexico and the city of Juarez, with a population of 1.4 million. ? The last confirmed measles case reported in El Paso County, Texas, was in 1993, and the last outbreak occurred in 1990 ( 1 ). The same day, the City of El Paso Department of Public Health (CEPDPH) alerted the Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) of another suspected measles case in an unvaccinated El Paso County resident, aged 3 years, who lived on Fort Bliss, also had no recent travel, and whose father was an active-duty soldier. On July 9, both cases were confirmed by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction testing at the TDSHS laboratory in Austin.