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

A child hospitalized with measles died in Lubbock, Texas this week. Hospital officials give more information on the disease and how it can be prevented.

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

A child who was hospitalized with measles has died from the illness in West Texas, state and local health officials announced Wednesday. It is the first death in a measles outbreak that has infected more than 120 people since late last month.

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.

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.

The effectiveness of the vaccine, coupled with rising vaccination rates, led to such low rates of measles that it was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. In recent years, though, the virus has made a resurgence, as childhood vaccination rates have dropped nationwide.

At least 124 cases have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown.

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.