The U.S. has recorded more than 300 cases of measles in just the first three months of this year, according to data published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the most infections recorded in a single year since 2019.

More than 90 percent of those cases are linked to a growing outbreak that began in western Texas and has now spread to New Mexico. The Texas Department of State Health Services recorded 259 cases Friday, and an additional 35 in New Mexico. According to CDC, at least 50 people have been hospitalized.

Two additional "probable" cases linked to the outbreak in Oklahoma have not been added to the CDC's tally yet.

This year's total........

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