
Texas child dies in measles outbreak, first U.S. fatality in years
Raw StoryA child in Texas has died from measles, marking the first fatality in an outbreak that has infected more than 130 people, the state's health department announced Wednesday. Since the beginning of the year, over 130 measles cases have been reported in west Texas and neighboring New Mexico, raising concerns about the resurgence of the highly contagious disease amid declining immunization rates. "While multiple measles outbreaks in the United States have not resulted in a death, it was only a matter of time that one would occur," infectious disease physician Amesh Adalja of Johns Hopkins University told AFP. The largest recent outbreak occurred in 2019, with 1,274 cases -- primarily within Orthodox Jewish communities in New York and New Jersey -- marking the highest national total in decades.
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