Texas health officials reported Tuesday there have been 624 confirmed cases of measles in the state this year, providing the update a few days after the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 800 confirmed cases of the illness in the U.

When measles began spreading earlier this year in northwest Texas, it didn't take long for the state to reach 50 cases for the first time in three decades. That milestone was a far cry from the 1,097 measles cases that Texas reported back in 1992,