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

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A measles outbreak in the Texas Plains continues to grow. 58 cases have been reported in the past 3 weeks across 5 counties. More cases are expected. TEXAS - A measles outbreak in Texas' South Plains region continues to spread.

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A person who was hospitalized has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa Whitfield confirmed the death Wednesday. It wasn’t clear the age of the patient, who died overnight.

A Texas measles outbreak has doubled in the last week to 124 cases, state health officials said Tuesday, a day after they warned a person infected with the highly contagious disease had traveled from the outbreak zone.

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.

A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.

The first person known to have died from measles in the U.S. in a decade was announced by health officials on Wednesday and described as a "school-aged child" who perished in a children's hospital in West Texas,

The child was not vaccinated and hospitalized in Lubbock last week, DSHS reported. The death is the first in the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas.