A person has died of measles in Texas, marking the first death from the disease in the United States in a decade. The death is part of an outbreak that has infected at least 124 people, mostly children, in rural West Texas. The age of the patient who died is not clear, and there have been a total of 18 hospitalizations due to the outbreak. However, Dr. Lara Johnson from Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock has stated that around 20 children have been admitted to her hospital due to measles, all of whom were having trouble breathing and had not been vaccinated against the disease. The outbreak has been contained so far to areas of Texas bordering New Mexico, which has also reported 9 measles cases. This is the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015, when a woman in Washington died during an outbreak in a rural part of the state. Measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 due to widespread vaccination, with the MMR vaccine being 97% effective in preventing the disease. The situation is still developing, and updates are expected. Erika Edwards, a health and medical news writer for NBC News and “TODAY,” is reporting on the story.
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