The country’s confirmed cases have topped 9,000 since last year, raising fears that a high-stakes evaluation in April could lead to its status being revoked.
A health worker administering a dose of the measles vaccine in Mexico City last week. “We are confident that the outbreak will be controlled,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday.
About 137,000 .50-caliber rounds have been seized since 2012, and of those, 47 percent came from a plant in Kansas City, Mo., Mexico’s defense secretary said.
A police officer in Villa Unión, Mexico, with a .50-caliber cartridge. Mexico’s defense secretary said that about 137,000 .50-caliber rounds had been seized since 2012.