After a pediatric patient in West Texas died of measles complications, hospital officials are urging the community to take the outbreak seriously, and to educate themselves about the virus and vaccination.

A child who wasn't vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious — but preventable — respiratory disease since 2015.

A child who was hospitalized with measles in Texas has died from the illness, marking the first death in an outbreak that has infected more than 120 people since late last month. Omar Villafranca spoke to a mom concerned for her 8-month-old baby who's still too young for the MMR vaccine.