LUBBOCK, Texas, EE.UU. (AP) — Una persona en el oeste de Texas que fue hospitalizada con sarampión ha fallecido, la primera muerte en un brote que comenzó a fines del mes pasado. La portavoz del Centr

Public health officials in New Mexico have said they suspect some of the state's cases are linked to the Texas outbreak, but haven't confirmed it. Measles is a highly contagious disease. Here's what you should know about how to protect yourself against measles,

Rural West Texas has 58 measles cases, and there are eight cases in neighboring eastern New Mexico. Here's what to know about measles and this outbreak.

Texas health officials have consistently said that vaccination is the best way for people to avoid the highly contagious airborne disease.

An unvaccinated child in Lubbock, Texas died after being hospitalized last week due to measles. It's the first death in the outbreak that began last month, and the first death from measles in the United States since 2015.

Texas authorities on Wednesday announced the first measles death in the state's outbreak of the highly contagious disease. The death, of a school-age child, is the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015,

The Texas Department of State Health Services on Wednesday confirmed the death. DSHS said the patient was an unvaccinated school-aged child.

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

Health officials say a child who had not been vaccinated died of measles in West Texas — the first death in an outbreak that has infected more than 120 people​.

The West Texas measles outbreak continues to see more confirmed cases and, on Wednesday, the outbreak's first death. Weather could play a role.

Nearly a month after the first reported case of measles in the South Plains, health officials have confirmed the first death due to the outbreak.