A child has died in the Texas measles outbreak – the first US measles death since 2015
Texas officials on Wednesday announced the first measles death in the state's ongoing outbreak of the highly contagious disease. The death, of a school-age child, is the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A measles outbreak in western Texas that began last month keeps growing, from 58 cases last week to 124 cases as of Tuesday.
In recent weeks, cases of the measles virus have been increasing across the state of Texas. The epicenter of the measles outbreak has been in West Texas, in the area between Lubbock and Midland-Odessa ...
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