Sonora continues to have the second-highest number of measles cases of all of Mexico’s states, after only its neighboring state of Chihuahua.
Chihuahua has logged more than 2,000 confirmed measles cases this year, after an outbreak centered around a Mennonite community there.
That number is nearly twice as many cases as the total number in the United States, which is struggling with its own outbreaks.
In Sonora, Arizona’s neighbor to the south, there have been nearly 70 confirmed cases. The two Mexican states have reported a total of five deaths, four in Chihuahua and one in Sonora.
As Mexico looks to contain cases in the two northwestern states, Arizona reported its first cases of the highly contagious illness last week.
