Texas measles cases rise to 223 as New Mexico reports first death from the outbreak

The number of confirmed cases in Texas' measles outbreak has reached 223, state health officials revealed Tuesday. Twenty-nine of those infected have been hospitalized. Of the total, 156 are in Gaines County, the Great Plains-area county in West Texas that's been at the center of the flare-up since the first cases were documented in January. So far, one child has died from measles during the outbreak, Texas' worst in roughly three decades.